Archive for May, 2012

Leopard, The (1963)

By on Saturday, May 5th, 2012

“We were the leopards, the lions, those who take our place will be jackals hyenas, and all of us – leopards, lions, jackals and sheep – will go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.” Prince Don Fabrizio Corberta is a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity who has a great love for a way of life he understands must […]

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400 Blows, The (1959)

By on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

“Dedicated to the memory of Andre Bazin.” French director François Truffaut’s masterpiece The 400 Blows is the most touching and greatest of all films about childhood adolescence. Inspired by Truffaut’s own early life, it is one of the great coming of age stories that portrays a boy growing up in Paris and apparently dashing headlong into a […]

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