#marthekeller

Wishing the wonderful actress Marthe Keller a very happy 73rd birthday.

#bobbydeerfield : one of the rare bad #alpacino #sydneypollack #movies but #marthekeller saves the rest with an #amazingperformance of a #desperatetolive #characterart (à Firenze, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQagp2zB6DL/?utm_medium=tumblr

#blacksunday #1977 #johnfrankenheimer #marthekeller #robertshaw #drama #thriller #NOquote #movie DP #johnaalonzo (à Tangier, Morocco) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtMjyD8D9l5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=r4d9geuy8qdr

#marathonman #1976 #johnschlesinger #marthekeller #dustinhoffman #drama #quote #movie #frenchlesson DP #conradhall (à New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtMPsLGDfqP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kkzq5g9krz1g

Marthe Keller's Raucous, 2007, on a poster for the exhibition I a curating for American Abstract Artists at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center, 81 Barclay Street, opening tomorrow night. See you there, 6 to 9pm! #marthekeller #art #painting #abstract #nyc #americanabstractartists

#MovieoftheDay: And Now My Love/Toute une vie (1975) Movies I Want to See: 27/50 A love story spanning decades, from the turn of the century to, in the original version, an envisioned dystopian future, following two souls (Marthe Keller and André Dussollier) in various incarnations working towards a final happy ending. The technique of the film develops with the passage of time, beginning as silent and B&W, gaining color and sound as the cinema did likewise. It was a success on its initial release, gaining an Oscar nomination for the script by director Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven; it can't have hurt that they won the award 9 years earlier for A Man and a Woman. And here I am, 40 years on, confronted by its obscurity and the difficulty of getting ahold of it; it is on DVD, but the edition is out of print and fetches sizable proves online. Again I must speculate as to why it has largely disappeared from the canon. The decline in Lelouch's reputation could certainly be a factor, as even A Man and a Woman is not all that highly regarded nowadays. The variant cuts of the film might also be an issue; I've read reviews which criticize the dystopian episode as marring a finale which works beautifully in the original American release (about half an hour shorter than the original French version). God only knows what those viewers would make of Lelouch's originally intended conclusion (which may have also been in the initial French version), which casts a decidedly bittersweet tone over the whole enterprise. In any case, the sheer ambition would be enough to command my attention, but by all accounts, it's also a lowly romance and a fine piece of filmmaking. It would seem an ideal choice for the Criterion collection, as the differing versions of the film could be set side-by-side. #AndNowMyLove #Touteunevie #ClaudeLelouch #PierreUytterhoeven #MartheKeller #AndréDussollier #GilbertBécaud #Frenchcinema