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I lost count of the tributes he pays, to Hitchcock's Psycho, to Alien and European frighteners such as Clouzot's Wages of Fear.
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And then the French New Wave swept in and its auteurs were disdainful of Clouzot and other filmmakers of his generation, dismissing his work as insufficiently experimental.
A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery Kristin M. Jones 2011
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Alfred Hitchcock borrowed from Clouzot's chillingly manipulative "Diabolique" ("Les Diaboliques," 1955) when he made "Psycho" (1960), although Clouzot's steady ooze of dread is all his own.
A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery Kristin M. Jones 2011
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A Clouzot retrospective opening Saturday in Cambridge, Mass., next month in New York, and later traveling to the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Calif., offers a chance to explore his oeuvre.
A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery Kristin M. Jones 2011
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"Diabolique" follows a fragile woman (played by Clouzot's wife, Véra) who tries to murder her abusive headmaster husband with the aid of his mistress (Simone Signoret).
A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery Kristin M. Jones 2011
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Subtle yet merciless, Clouzot's wartime masterpiece "The Raven" "Le corbeau," 1943 attracted a flood of controversy that stained his career.
A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery Kristin M. Jones 2011
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When Henri-Georges Clouzot took on a genre, it generally led to a classic: so Les Diaboliques is one of the most frightening pictures ever put on screen; The Mystery of Picasso is among the most outstanding films exploring the work of an artist; and The Wages of Fear has no superior in the field of action-suspense.
The Wages of Fear: No 8 David Thomson 2010
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But "Le corbeau" still was a touchstone for the young François Truffaut, and Claude Chabrol has drawn on Clouzot's mordant critiques of bourgeois society.
A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery Kristin M. Jones 2011
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The way Clouzot films this process (in a movie of over two and a half hours) is a model of grinding, unrelieved suspense.
The Wages of Fear: No 8 David Thomson 2010
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Vibrating with color and strikingly contemporary, Clouzot's final film, "Woman in Chains" "La Prisonnière," 1968, about a woman's entanglement with a voyeur, uses Op and Kinetic art to convey her profound anxiety.
A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery Kristin M. Jones 2011
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