"the French totally lack a profound understanding if British cinema" -
Uh.... given that's lists are basically nonsense and that there are huge gaps in, for example, the latest Sight & Sound list have you got any real evidence for this?
Moreover which British cinema are you talking about- Hammer horror movies, the Structuralist avant-garde, Carry on movies, Derek Jarman? Which French people at you talking about, is Truffaut really representative? Or is Gaspar Noe? Or the regular cinema goer?
Further, France has a healthy film industry because they are not beholden to Hollywood, should we expect them to be beholden to British film?
Finally, what is Britishness or the quality of being British that makes a film British?
Also, maybe Hitchcock's films were "uneven ".
Jack
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On 03/09/2012, at 1:23 AM, "Henry M. Taylor" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Just watched a code 2 dvd of Under Capricorn, which also features an interview with Claude Chabrol on Hitchcock recorded in 1999. Chabrol talks about Hitch's 'uneven' English films. Truffaut was dismissive of British cinema, and in a 'greatest films' survey by French journal Positif some years ago (in response to the 2002 Sight & Sound poll), not a single British film was listed among the top 100. It seems the French totally lack a profound understanding of British cinema.
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>> "After all, Hitchcock had been an admirer of Cocteau's BLOOD OF A POET
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>> following year in the opening and closing scenes of THE SKIN GAME." -
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>> The closing sequence of 'Blood of a Poet' was shot in January 1931,
>> about the time 'The Skin Game' was completed (its trade show was in
>> February). Cocteau's film was not shown in public till January 1932,
>> after Hitchcock's film had been released. Had Hitchcock been admitted
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