Floating Through Film
Floating Through Film
Floating Through Film
Episode #3: Influences on the French New Wave (The Big Sleep + Bicycle Thieves)
52 minutes Posted Apr 16, 2022 at 1:52 pm.
In this third episode of Floating Through Film, we start by discussing some of the types of movies/genres that influenced the French New Wave
This leads us to the movies we're reviewing this week, the 1948 Howard Hawks film, The Big Sleep
and Vittorio De Sica's 1948 Italian Neorealist film, Bicycle Thieves
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In this third episode of Floating Through Film, we start by discussing some of the types of movies/genres that influenced the French New Wave (0:35). This leads us to the movies we're reviewing this week, the 1948 Howard Hawks film, The Big Sleep (16:40), and Vittorio De Sica's 1948 Italian Neorealist film, Bicycle Thieves (25:50). We hope you enjoy! 
Movies We're Reviewing Next Week: Jacques Rivette's Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) and Éric Rohmer's The Green Ray (1986)
Link to Cahiers du Cinéma's 1956 interview with Howard Hawks: http://torontofilmreview.blogspot.com/2013/05/howard-hawks-cahiers-du-cinema-1956.html
Music:
- Intro and Outro from Bicycle Thieves (1948)
- Break from The Big Sleep (1946)
Hosts: Luke Seay (https://letterboxd.com/seayluke/), Blake Tourville (https://letterboxd.com/blaketourville/), and Dany Joshuva (https://letterboxd.com/djoshuva/)