{"id":1527,"date":"2010-07-23T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2010-07-23T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T23:00:54","slug":"le-corbeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"Le Corbeau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/le_corbeau_release_poster.jpg' title='le_corbeau_release_poster.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/le_corbeau_release_poster.jpg' alt='le_corbeau_release_poster.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a film that got made in France under Nazi occupation and was a veiled attack on fascism. Nevertheless it got it&#8217;s director, Henri-Georges Clouzot in hot water. Critics wanted him arrested for collaboration, banned from filmmaking, executed! He was judged by a panel of &#8220;experts&#8221; that never even saw his film. The affair Clouzot was a scandal and many notable French filmmakers came to Clouzot&#8217;s defense including Jean Renoir and Jean Pierre Melville. Clouzout was vindicated and directed many classic films after the war but I think <em>Le Corbeau<\/em> is his best film. Made under extremely difficult circumstances and by all accounts an unpleasant experience for all who worked on it, it emerges from the troubled waters of creation a masterpiece like Venus rising from the foam of a tempest tossed sea. If you look carefully at the Marquee in <em>Inglorious Basterds<\/em> you will see <em>Le Corbeau<\/em> is showing at the Parisian theater the heroine runs.<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IJFNPRr7-HQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IJFNPRr7-HQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a film that got made in France under Nazi occupation and was a veiled attack on fascism. Nevertheless it got it&#8217;s director, Henri-Georges Clouzot in hot water. Critics wanted him arrested for collaboration, banned from filmmaking, executed! He was judged by a panel of &#8220;experts&#8221; that never even saw his film. The affair Clouzot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}