If you liked the Umbrellas....be sure to see Jacques Demy's The Young Girls
of Rochefort, made three years later ('67). As for digging them rich 60's
colors, try Tokyo Drifter and Contempt for deep saturated bliss.
And as for why it looks so good...my 2 cents says high production values,
Demy's great color sense, the set design, and the cinematography (Jean
Rabier, who shot Cleo from 5 to 7, and was cameraman on 400 Blows and
Elevator to the Gallows which is a great French thriller) were why it looked
good in the first place. The main reason it looks so good now is that they
did a great job remastering it. Many of the older films you see that haven't
been restored are from murky old prints, so you forget that they were once
sharp and crystal clear. Like getting used to 60's records sounding scratchy
and warm, it can be a shock to experience them all clear and digital.
James
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> >The Umbrellas of Sherbourg (Musical- Great!)
>
>I was raving about this film (I thought it was spelled "Cherbough," I could
>be mistaken) a while ago on the modslist--it's nice to see it get a stamp
>of approval from somebody "in the industry." Unfortunately, I wasn't able
>to find much information about it (okay, I'll confess: I didn't look very
>hard), and wasn't able to confirm a release date. Somehow, I was under the
>(apparently mistaken) impression that it was made later, and only set in
>the '60s (I'm not even sure it was set in the '60s, but the costume and set
>designs betray their influence).
>
>I suppose it was the picture quality--far less murky and grainy than most
>films from the era. There must be a name for it--Yosi, care to help us
>non-film people out?
>
>-Eamon
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