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12 July 2009 2:01 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Every week, Film School Rejects presents a film that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents: Port of Shadows (1938) Pre-war French cinema gave us, among other things, the poetic-realism school of aesthetics. The team of Jacques Prévert and Marcel Carné was the steady duo of that school, the poet and the director who made a bunch of memorable films together. One of those is Port of Shadows and it begins like this... After a shot of a ship laying still in a foggy harbor, we see the headlights of a truck before zooming to the driver. Then, from the opposing view, a silhouette of a man appears in the dark. He turns around and facing the lights he demands for the truck to stop. He is Jean (Jean Gabin), a soldier who just got back from fighting in Tonkin, Indochina »

- Loukas Tsouknidas

3 February 2009 4:20 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

French producer Jacques Bar has died. He was 87. The producer of more than 80 films passed away in Paris last month. No further details of his death are known as WENN goes to press.

Bar founded Cite Films in 1947, produced his first movie, La Maternelle, in 1949, and went on to become one of the most revered talents in French cinema.

His most famous French-language films include My Father, The Hero starring Gerard Depardieu, Henry Verneuil's Any Number Can Win and Rene Clement's Joy House.

He also oversaw seven of legendary French actor Jean Gabin's 'late period' movies, which were claimed to be the best of his career.

Most recently, Bar produced Depardieu's 1999 TV mini-series The Count of Monte Cristo, and director Stephen Soderbergh's segment of 2004's Eros. »

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2 articles from 2009