Films byTexts by 1959
FILM
Roberto Rossellini, 1959, 90’
FILM
Billy Wilder, 1959, 121’
When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
“Producer David Selznick told me mixing gangsters and comedy wouldn’t work. In fact, it did.”
Billy Wilder
FILM
Yasujirô Ozu, 1959, 94’
Letting rip a fart –
It doesn’t make you laugh
When you live alone.
Senryu poem
FILM
Robert Bresson, 1959, 76’
Jeanne: You’re not in the real world. You share no interests with others.
FILM
Howard Hawks, 1959, 141’
Jonathan Rosenbaum: When did you first write about Howard Hawks?
FILM
François Truffaut, 1959, 99’
“Allowing a victimised child to be less than wholly sympathetic – in ways that only a real-life child could ever be – Truffaut consolidates The 400 Blows as an act of rebellion. It is not just Antoine who is a rebel, or Truffaut on whose early life the film is based.