Gary Cooper, who won three Oscars, was close to death when he made the thriller The Naked Edge, and at the time of its release reviewers lamented that his lustrous career should end on so inferior a note. It was no A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage, 1932), no Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank […]

As delicate and aromatic as her summer garden in Saint-Tropez, Jacques Demy’s adaptation of Colette’s 1928 novella La naissance du jour gently and deeply flowers in the self-reflective light of her mother’s recent death, the end of her second marriage a few years earlier, and her own feeling of no longer being young. This fine […]