Louis Malle

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Three Worlds of Jacques Cousteau, The (The Silent World, World Without Sun, Voyage to the Edge of the World) (1956-1976): Dir. Jacques Cousteau, Louis Malle; A trilogy of award–winning documentary feature films from famed oceanogragher, Jacques Cousteau. The Silent World (1956) won the Palm D'Or…
Elevator to the Gallows (Lift to the Scaffold, aka. Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud) (1958): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly…; A young Jeanne Moreau stars in this elegant thriller about a crime of passion that backfires when the murderer gets trapped in a lift. Ambience par…
Amants, Les (Lovers, The) (1959): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Alain Cuny; This helped push the envelope of frank sexuality in cinema and made a star of Jeanne Moreau, as the rich, bored housewife whose extra–marital…
Zazie Dans Le Metro (Zazie in the Underground) (1960): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret; Anarchistic comedy drops the impudent 11yr old Zazie into the care of Uncle Phillipe Noiret and the whirlygig chaos of modern Paris. Adapted from…
Vive Le Tour / Human, Trop Humain / Place de la Republique (1962-1974): Dir. Louis Malle; Louis Malle turns the camera on his homeland, France, in these three documentaries that reveal a curiosity in ordinary human lives: an encapsulation…
Le Feu Follet (The Fire Within) (1963): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau, Alexandra Stewart; Brilliantly measured account of an alcoholic (Maurice Ronet) who makes a final social round to find reason why he should not take his own life. Rich…
Viva Maria! (1965): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton; Louis Malle harnesses the assets of Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau, here playing two circus performing ‘Marias’ with a penchant for viva la…
Thief of Paris, The (Le Voleur) (1967): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Genevieve Bujold, Marie Dubois; Enjoyable comedy with Belmondo as a young man cheated of his inheritance who in turn develops a taste for thieving. Set in Paris at the turn of the…
Spirits of the Dead (Histoires Extraordinaires) (1969): Dir. Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Terence Stamp, Alain Delon…; A classy compendium of three Edgar Allan Poe stories directed by Europe's finest. Metzengerstein (Dir. Roger Vadim) – Jane and Peter Fonda…
Phantom India (1969): Dir. Louis Malle; Captured on film, Louis Malle’s pilgrimage to India is relayed with remarkable and imposing gravitas as the director discovers the country, warts…
Calcutta (1969): Dir. Louis Malle; Louis Malle’s companion piece to PHANTOM INDIA isolates some extraordinary footage of Calcutta, presenting a fiery and tempestuous image of a city…
Le Souffle Au Coeur (Murmur of the Heart) (1971): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Benoit Ferreux; A much praised coming–of–age tale concerns a sickly, but promiscuous teenage boy growing up in a stilted bourgeois family in 1950s Dijon…
Louis Malle: Youth & Conflict (Murmur of the Heart; Lacombe, Lucien; Au revoir les enfants) (1971-1987): Dir. Louis Malle; Three poetic tales of youth, set against the tumult of World War II and postwar France. Tragic, amusing, and poignant, these three films are more…
Lacombe Lucien (1974): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clement; A subtle, probing study of the psychology of collaboration set in WW2 rural France, sees young peasant lad Pierre Blaise drawn into the local…
Black Moon (1975): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Joe Dallesandro; A vastly ambitious and haunting fantasy excursion for dir. Malle proffers an allegorical future world in which civil war rages between the sexes,…
Pretty Baby (1978): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Keith Carradine, Brooke Shields; One of dir. Malle's finest American films, this period piece uses the soft, boyish charms of Keith Carradine to humanise its slowly–told tale…
Atlantic City, USA (1981): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon; An ageing petty crook finds a new self–respect with a struggling casino worker. Subtly drawn yet satisfying character study, expertly played by…
My Dinner with Andre (1981): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory; An honest exchange of philosophy transpires over dinner between an out–of–work playwright and a theatre director. Remarkably compelling…
Alamo Bay (1985): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Amy Madigan, Ed Harris; Gulf–coast fisherman clash with Vietnamese boat–people. Ry Cooder soundtrack.
God's Country (1985): Dir. Louis Malle; This early excursion to the States sees Louis Malle observe the everyday workings of a prosperous farming community in Minnesota, returning six years…
And the Pursuit of Happiness (1986): Dir. Louis Malle; A satisfying rumination on the nature of the 'American Dream', as it relates to the constrasting experiences of immigrants to the United States, from…
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Francine Racette…; Dir. Malle has transformed a childhood memoir into a powerful and vivid account of a catholic schoolboy who unknowingly witnesses anti–semitism…
Milou En Mai (May Fools) (1989): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou; In May of '68, a rural family gather for the reading of their matriarch's will, an event that will strangely affect their idyllic existence. Stephane…
Damage (1992): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson; Jeremy Irons plays a Tory cabinet minister who becomes entangled, (especially physically) with his son's fiancee – a chic,…
Vanya On 42nd Street (1994): Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Wallace Shawn, Julianne Moore, Andre Gregory; The late director's final film recouples him with Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory from MY DINNER WITH ANDRE for another compulsive round of…

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