Perhaps motivated by the success of La La Land, Criterion has reissued two impressive Jacques Demy musicals as separate releases. This all-singing, all-dancing homage to candy-colored vintage Hollywood musicals is a captivating Franco-American hybrid that allows free rein to Demy’s marvelously positive romantic philosophy.
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 717
1967 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 125 min. / Les Demoiselles de Rochefort / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 11, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Danielle Darrieux, George Chakiris, Gene Kelly, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Perrin
Cinematography: Ghislain Cloquet
Production Designer: Bernard Evein
Film Editor: Jean Hamon
Original Music: Michel Legrand
Produced by Mag Bodard, Gilbert de Goldschmidt
Written and Directed by Jacques Demy
I was going to squeak by reviewing only Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, but the interest in the new La La Land prompted some emails and messages that tell me a revisit of the charming...
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 717
1967 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 125 min. / Les Demoiselles de Rochefort / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 11, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Danielle Darrieux, George Chakiris, Gene Kelly, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Perrin
Cinematography: Ghislain Cloquet
Production Designer: Bernard Evein
Film Editor: Jean Hamon
Original Music: Michel Legrand
Produced by Mag Bodard, Gilbert de Goldschmidt
Written and Directed by Jacques Demy
I was going to squeak by reviewing only Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, but the interest in the new La La Land prompted some emails and messages that tell me a revisit of the charming...
- 5/2/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
French Producer De Goldschmidt Dies
Veteran French producer Gilbert De Goldschmidt has died, aged 85.
De Goldschmidt passed away on 1 January in in Switzerland. No cause of death had been released as WENN went to press.
He began producing films for the U.S. military and created Madeleine Films in 1951.
He also helped to develop successful productions including Jean-Gabriel's The Wanderer and the Oscar-nominated Hoa Binh, comedies including Alexander, The Troubles with Alexander and The Tall Blond Man, and several French TV commercials.
De Goldschmidt twice headed Unifrance film, which promotes French film around the world, and served on the Cannes jury in 1983 and on the Venice jury in 1988.
He is survived by his wife, France, two children and four grandchildren...
De Goldschmidt passed away on 1 January in in Switzerland. No cause of death had been released as WENN went to press.
He began producing films for the U.S. military and created Madeleine Films in 1951.
He also helped to develop successful productions including Jean-Gabriel's The Wanderer and the Oscar-nominated Hoa Binh, comedies including Alexander, The Troubles with Alexander and The Tall Blond Man, and several French TV commercials.
De Goldschmidt twice headed Unifrance film, which promotes French film around the world, and served on the Cannes jury in 1983 and on the Venice jury in 1988.
He is survived by his wife, France, two children and four grandchildren...
- 1/15/2010
- WENN
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