Kanopy Collections - Available for Streaming at UCLA
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A Trip to the Moon (dir. Georges Méliès, 1902)
"A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.The material for A Trip to the Moon is sourced from a restored color version that had been considered lost for several decades and is presented with an original soundtrack by the French band, AIR."
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Three Films by Alice Guy Blaché (1922)
Includes: A House Divided, Canned Harmony, and Falling Leaves
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La Bête Humaine (dir. Jean Renoir, 1938)
"Part poetic realism, part film noir, the film is a hard-boiled and suspenseful journey into the tormented psyche of a workingman."
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The 400 Blows (dir. Francois Truffaut, 1959)
"THE 400 BLOWS sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, and petty crime."
Winner of Best Director and nominated for the Palm d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. Nominated for one Academy Award (Best Writing - Directly for the Screen) and two BAFTA awards (Best Film from any Source, Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles - Jean-Pierre Léaud).
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Hiroshima Mon Amour (dir. Alain Resnais, 1959)
"A French actress and a Japanese architect engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering."
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Chronicle of a Summer (dir. Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, 1961)
"Simply by interviewing a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960—beginning with the provocative and eternal question “Are you happy?” and expanding to political issues, including the ongoing Algerian War—Rouch and Morin reveal the hopes and dreams of a wide array of people, from artists to factory workers, from an Italian émigré to an African student."
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Cléo From 5 to 7 (dir. Agnès Varda, 1962)
"Agnes Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy."
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Umbrellas of Cherbourg (dir. Jacques Demy, 1964)
"Catherine Deneuve plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped off to fight in Algeria, the two lovers must grow up quickly."
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975)
"A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s JEANNE DIELMAN meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow, whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick."
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Beau Travail (dir. Claire Denis, 1999)
"Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten."
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The Gleaners and I (dir. Agnès Varda, 2000)
"Agnès Varda’s extraordinary late-career renaissance began with this wonderfully idiosyncratic, self-reflexive documentary in which the French cinema icon explores the world of modern-day gleaners: those living on the margins who survive by foraging for what society throws away."
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Girlhood (dir. Céline Sciamma, 2014)
"Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the “boys’ law” in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls."
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Titane (dir. Julia Ducournau, 2021)
"With a titanium plate surgically fused to her skull following a car crash as a child, car model Alexia embarks on a wild and ultimately unpredictable journey that questions our assumptions about family, identity and love."
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