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Two tributes to two great films:

alternate movie posters for Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin féminin and François Truffaut's Jules et Jim.

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Chris Marker July 29 1921- July 29 2012

"Chris Marker, an enigmatic figure in French cinema who avoided publicity and was loath to screen his films yet was often ranked with countrymen Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard as an avant-garde master, died at his home in Paris on Sunday, his 91st birthday. Marker, who worked well into his 80s, made more than two dozen films during a six-decade career. Known as a pioneer of the film essay, he was most admired for La Jetee (1962) and Sans Soleil (1983), which explored time, memory and history in an unconventional and evocative style."

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"Jules et Jim", 1962. Directed by François Truffaut.

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L'Année dernière à Marienbad ("Last Year At Marienbad") - French release poster. Directed by Alain Resnais, 1961.

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Jeanne Moreau on the cover of Sight and Sound (the cinema magazine published by the British Film Institute), 1967. A scene from "The Bride Wore Black" (La Mariée était en noir) directed by François Truffaut.

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A youtube link to a wonderful short film by Agnès Varda, called "Plaisir d'amour en Iran".

6 minutes, 1976.

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Hélène Chatelain in La jetée, 1962. Directed by Chris Marker

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François Truffaut

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Haydée Politoff in La Collectionneuse, 1967. Directed by Eric Rohmer. La Collectionneuse is the fourth film of Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales”.

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Haydée Politoff in La Collectionneuse, 1967. Directed by Eric Rohmer. La Collectionneuse is the fourth film of Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales".

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Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina in Alphaville, 1965. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

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Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle (Breathless), 1960.

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Photo by Raymond Cauchetier. Jean Seberg on the set of Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle (Breathless), 1960.

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"Aspiring filmmakers should look at and discuss Cauchetier’s photos because they are an important reminder that making films is a process full of possibilities."

A fantastic article highlighting the development of Cauchetier's photography, with insightful commentary on many of his new wave production photographs.

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I've just realized Raymond Cauchetier is the photographer responsible for so many of the amazing new wave production photographs that exist... It all started when Cauchetier was introducted to Jean-Luc Godard while Godard was still working at Cahiers du Cinema. Godard eventually hired him to be the production photographer on the set of his first film, Breathless. Cauchetier was never professionally trained, but developed his near-perfect sense of timing while doing some aerial combat photography while in the French Air Force. He was hired as the set photographer for a number of new wave films, creating images as iconic as the films themselves.

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Claude Chabrol: June 1930- September 2010

Claude Chabrol was as a film critic in the early days of Cahiers du Cinema, and alongside his colleages François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Eric Rohmer, he went on to become a director.

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Filming Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows), directed by François Truffaut, 1959.