Floating Through Film
Floating Through Film
Floating Through Film
Episode #4: The Cahiers du Cinéma Group (Celine and Julie Go Boating + The Green Ray)
59 minutes Posted Apr 23, 2022 at 1:49 pm.
In this fourth episode of Floating Through Film, we begin our discussion
by talking about the directors in the French New Wave that wrote for the  famous French film magazine, Cahiers du Cinéma. The five directors most commonly associated with this group are Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette. We first give our overall thoughts on these influential directors, before turning to the second half the show, where we review Jacques Rivette's 1974 film, Céline and Julie Go Boating
and Eric Rohmer's 1986 film, The Green Ray
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In this fourth episode of Floating Through Film, we begin our discussion (0:40) by talking about the directors in the French New Wave that wrote for the  famous French film magazine, Cahiers du Cinéma. The five directors most commonly associated with this group are Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette. We first give our overall thoughts on these influential directors, before turning to the second half the show, where we review Jacques Rivette's 1974 film, Céline and Julie Go Boating (15:50), and Eric Rohmer's 1986 film, The Green Ray (32:25). We hope you enjoy!
Movies We're Reviewing Next Week: Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962), Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), and Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Link to Jacques Rivette Interview on Celine and Julie Go Boating: https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/jacques-rivette-on-celine-and-julie-go-boating
Music:
- Intro and Break from Céline and Julie Go Boating
- Outro from The Green Ray 
Hosts: Luke Seay (https://letterboxd.com/seayluke/), Blake Tourville (https://letterboxd.com/blaketourville/), and Dany Joshuva (https://letterboxd.com/djoshuva/)