Jean Vigo

Acting up: 10 film directors played on screen (10 person items)

"James Frain "

A Death For Every Year (107 person items)

" Tuberculosis."

Favorite Filmmakers (53 person items)

" What was Vigo’s secret? Probably he lived more intensely than most of us. Filmmaking is awkward because of the disjointed nature of the work. You shoot five to fifteen seconds and then stop for an hour. On the film set there is seldom the opportunity for the concentrated intensity a writer like Henry Miller might have enjoyed at his desk. By the time he had written twenty pages, a kind of fever possessed him, carried him away; it could be tremendous, even sublime. Vigo seems to have worked co"

Andrei Tarkovsky's Favorite Directors (12 person items)

" L'Atalante isn't in his top 10. I remember Vigo with tenderness and thankfulness, who, in my opinion, is the father of modern French cinema.An excessively frank and image-laden mis-en-scène with its subtext open for all to see is part of a broader phenomenon when a shot is subordinated to the requirements of literary discourse or obvious imagery. In one of the most ageless films L'Atalante by Jean Vigo there is an episode where the newlyweds, a girl and a young sailor, walk from the church to"

T A U R U S ♉ (24 person items)

"April 26, 1905"

They died too soon (104 person items)

"1905-1934 "

Listal's 100 best Directors (The Results) (100 person items)

"Total points:10 Gerru(1) Rath(9)"

Directors:The Filmography of... (207 person items)

"The filmography of Jean Vigo by Rath"

The top-60 directors (60 person items)

"Masterpiece: L'Atalante"

Top twenty directors (20 person items)

"L'Atalante (1934)"