Material girls and boys may recall that Madonna adopted the moniker of Dita Parlo for her 1992 picture book Sex, and the title song on the accompanying Erotica album is sung in the voice of a ...

“L’Atalante,” which I discuss in this clip, is the only feature by Jean Vigo to be released in his lifetime (he died in 1934, at the age of twenty-nine, shortly after the film’s first run ended). The ...

The son of anarchists, a sufferer of tuberculosis and a playful movie poet, French filmmaker Jean Vigo died at age 29, mere days after completing his only feature, 1934’s river-bound romance ...

Life bursts forcefully from the screen in French director Jean Vigo’s 1934 film L’Atalante. Often quoted by critics as the apotheosis of film art, it is a fascinating blend of realism and unbounded ...

Jean Vigo’s first and only feature-length film, L’Atalante can often be found snuggled amongst critics’ best-of-all-time lists. A quiet, subtle, and brilliantly simple story of a loved-up but immature ...

After completing his 1934 masterpiece L'Atalante, French director Jean Vigo died of tuberculosis at 29, leaving only three shorts and one feature to his name–not enough footage to fill up an afternoon ...

Directed by Jean Vigo. Starring Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon Club, QFT, Belfast (and IFI, Dublin in February), 89 min EVEN IF Jean Vigo had not bequeathed two of cinema’s least disputed ...

Richard Brody on Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante" (1934). Richard Brody on Jean Vigo's "L'Atalante" (1934). and this clip is from, L'Atalante. A 1934 film directed by, Jean Vigo. It's his only full length ...

Some filmmakers have a lifetime in which to develop their art, to explore their themes, to express their world view. Others do it in a single film. 1934’s ‘L’Atalante’ is the single feature from the ...