Brigitte et Brigitte [Brigitte and Brigitte] by Luc Moullet, 1966:
"That Cahiers du cinéma directs itself with regularity to the Hitchcock 'case' is no secret, nor are the sarcasms of our colleagues on the subject. From Georges Sadoul to Denis Marion, from Jean Quéval to Georges Charensol, we have been spared no ironies. They've tried to pick quarrels on the shakiest of grounds — even to the point of trying to make believe that on one occasion I translated 'larger than life' into French as métaphysique, when anyone who knows me knows I could not possibly have done anything of the kind."
— Claude Chabrol, "Les Choses sérieuses", Cahiers du cinéma no. 46, April 1955. Translation by Liz Heron.
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Claude Chabrol and Gérard Depardieu, photo for interview with Cahiers du cinéma on Bellamy, 2009:
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Dave Kehr's obituary in The New York Times is here, with additional notes and comments at Dave's blog here.
Griffe / Préfère l'impair / via Bruno Andrade, here.
A 2008 interview with Chabrol about cuisine, from Libération's Les Foodingues section — "You Can't Tell a Lie When Your Mouth's Full" — here.
"Les films de Claude Chabrol qui vous ont marqué" at Le Monde, here.
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On a related note, here's a DVD from France which everyone should discipline themselves to save up the money and pay for (and in the sense that it's the opposite of punishment) —
"For [so-and-so, in dedication]" (exception: the Histoire(s) du cinéma, which invented the practice in cinemaville)
"from the likes of Pauline Kael"
"fun"
"gaily caparisoned"
"goofy charm"
"heart-rending climax"
"heart-rending final scene"
"heart-rending final sequence"
"heterosexual love"
"homosexual love"
"I found myself unprepared for the emotional wallop"
"in the history of the cinema"
"invigorating"
"is to be commended for"
"jansenist"
"lively"
"Love it or hate it, ... "
"my star-clotted majesty"
"one of the most beloved"
"played by the incomparable [so-and-so]"
"playfully"
"political"
"powerfully affecting"
"reading of the film"
"rich array"
"staggering beauty"
"staggeringly beautiful"
"strikingly bereft"
"that would change cinema forever"
"that would change the movies forever"
"the greatest ____________ of his/her generation"
"there's nothing else like it" (also: "there's absolutely nothing else like it")
"tissue of lies"
"titular [anything]"
"two or three things"
"unforgettable"
"Unfortunately, compared with Rohmer's earlier work, in particular the series known as 'Six Moral Tales,' The Romance of Astrea and Celadon has little to say about eros that's still relevant. It's a film so embarrassingly quaint it's crying out for a parody called Not Another Medieval Movie."
