1959
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2 days ago · What was La La Land inspired by? The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) French new wave director Jacques Demy's bittersweet 1964 musical is a clear influence on La La Land, both in its kaleidoscopic colour palette and in its fusion of the realistic and the fairytale.
1 day ago · Jacques Demy, one of the great filmmakers of the French New Wave, tweaked the conventions of the classic Hollywood musical with movies like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort.
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2 days ago · Filmmaker Thomas Streed joins the podcast to discuss Jacques Demy's classic French New Wave musical The Young Girls of Rochefort. The River Magnus triple feature will be at B119 Wells Hall at Michigan State University at 2:00pm.
5 days ago · After the success of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort, Catherine Deneuve teamed up again with director Jacques Demy for this bonkers fairy tale. A king vows to his dying wife that he will not marry again unless he can find a princess more beautiful than her.
3 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.
5 days ago · The director: Jacques Demy (1931–1990) is celebrated as one of the eminent French New Wave directors alongside Jean Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut. Demy wrote and directed this film, which won the Palme d’Or at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival, as well as being nominated for five Academy Awards.
12 hours ago · Anouk Aimée, the French leading lady who worked with such auteurs as Federico Fellini, Sidney Lumet, Jacques Demy, and Bernardo Bertolucci died June 18 at age 92.
