#claude barras

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Watching

MA VIE DE COURGETTE [MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI] Claude Barras France, 2016

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ma vie de courgette (2016)

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My Life as a Zucchini (2016) dir. Claude Barras

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A Claude Barras il Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare di Locarno77

Il regista e animatore svizzero sarà premiato con il riconoscimento dedicato alle personalità capaci di far arrivare il cinema agli spettatori più piccoli. Autore dell’amatissimo Ma vie de Courgette (La mia vita da Zucchina, 2016), Barras porterà il suo ultimo lungometraggio Sauvages (2024) – recentemente presentato a Cannes – in Piazza Grande la sera di martedì 13 agosto. Con l’uscita nel 2016…

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Correction on this one on Billaud-Varenne: it's not the complete memoirs + most of it is a biography of BV by Alfred Bégis + there's one on Collot too. This one here seems to have a lot more (includes two volumes):

Mémoires de Billaud-Varennes, ex-conventionnel; écrits au Port-au-Prince en 1818, contenant la relation de ses voyages et aventures dans le Mexique, depuis 1805 jusqu'en 1817; avec des notes historiques et un précis de l'insurrection américaine, depuis son origine jusqu'en 1820, published in 1821

A Few More Free Books I Found*:

Mémoires historiques et militaires sur Carnot (1824)

Le Puy-de-Dôme en 1793 et le Proconsulat de Couthon (1877) by Francisque Mège

Le procès des Dantonistes, d'après les documents, précédé d'une introduction historique. Recherches pour servir à l'histoire de la révolution française (1879) edited by Dr. Jean François Eugène Robinet

Robert Lindet, député à l'Assemblée législative et à la Convention, membre du Comité de salut public, ministre des finances : notice biographique (1899) by Amand Montier

Prieur de la Côte-d'Or (1900) by Paul Gaffarel

Oeuvres littéraires de Hérault de Séchelles (1907) edited by Emile Dard

Un épicurien sous la Terreur; Hérault de Séchelles (1759-1794); d'après des documents inédits (1907) by Emile Dard

Twelve Who Ruled (1941) by R. R. Palmer (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

Bertrand Barère: A Reluctant Terrorist (1963) by Leo Gershoy (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

Saint-Just : sa politique et ses missions (1976) by Jean-Pierre Gross (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

*there are SO MANY SOURCES available on Archive dot org, I'm presently going insane over all this knowledge. All the Thermidorian pamphlets and more that I dont think I ever saw/found while doing my M.A. thesis! Wow!

N.B. I sorted the books chronologically after giving up on trying to make my list into a division between primary and secondary because way too many overlap (memoirs-biographies) and some are not the greatest quality (Mège on Couthon). The only truly academic book that respects modern academic standards here is Jean-Pierre Gross' on Saint-Just. Leo Gershoy's method of quoting sources is appalling (and barely existent) and R. R. Palmer is... a complicated case - very entertaining and engaging book, but not the most academic/scientific and certainly not unbiased. Unless those are the academic/scientific standards for the Anglophone historians...

Some primary sources

I plan to add more whenever I find more.

Historie Parlamentaire de la Révolution Française ou Journal des Assemblées Nationales, depuis 1789 jusqu’en 1815

Volume 1 (May 1789) Volume 2 (June-September 1789) Volume 3 (September-December 1789) Volume 4 (December 1789-March 1790) Volume 5 (March-May 1790) Volume 6 (May-August 1790) Volume 7? Volume 8 (November 1790-February 1791) Volume 9 (February-May 1791) Volume 10 (May-July 1791) Volume 11 (July-September 1791) Volume 12 (September-December 1791) Volume 13 (January-March 1792) Volume 14 (April-June 1792) Volume 15 (June-July 1792) Volume 16 (July-August 1792) Volume 17 (August-September 1792) Volume 18 (September 1792) Volume 19 (September-October 1792) Volume 20 (October-November 1792) Volume 21 (November-December 1792) Volume 22 (December 1792-January 1793) Volume 23 (January 1793) Volume 24 (February-March 1793) Volume 25 (March-April 1793) Volume 26 (April-May 1793) Volume 27 (May 1793) Volume 28 (July-August 1793) Volume 29 (September-October 1793) Volume 30 (October-December 1793) Volume 31 (November 1793-March 1794) Volume 32 (March-May 1794) Volume 33 (May-July 1794) Volume 34 (July-August 1794)

Recueil des actes du comité de salut public Volume 1 (August 12 1792-January 21 1793) Volume 2 (January 22-March 31 1793) Volume 3 (April 1-May 5 1793) Volume 4 (6 May-18 June 1793) Volume 5 (19 June-15 August 1793) Volume 6 (15 August-21 September 1793) Volume 7 (22 September-24 October 1793) Volume 8 (25 October-26 November 1793) Volume 9 (27 November-31 December 1793) Volume 10 (1 January-8 February 1794) Volume 11 (9 February-15 March 1794) Volume 12 (16 March-22 April 1794) Volume 13 (23 April-28 May 1794) Volume 14 (29 May-7 July 1794) Volume 15 (8 July-9 August 1794)

Recueil de documents pour l’histoire du club des Jacobins de Paris Volume 1 (1789-1790) Volume 2 (January-July 1791) Volume 3 (July 1791-June 1792) Volume 4 (June 1792-January 1793) Volume 5 (January 1793-March 1794) Volume 6 (March-November 1794)

Histoire du tribunal révolutionnaire de Paris: avec le journal de ses actes. Volume 1  Volume 2  Volume 3  Volume 4  Volume 5 

Papiers inédits trouves chez Robespierre, Saint-Just, Payan etc Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3

Oeuvres complètes de Robespierre Volume 1 (Robespierre à Arras) Volume 2 (Les œuvres judiciaires) Volume 3 is the correspondence, listed below Volume 4 (Le defenseur de la Constitution) Volume 5 (lettres à ses comettras) Volume 6 (speeches 1789-1790) Volume 7 (speeches January-September 1791) Volume 8 (speeches October 1791-September 1792) Volume 9 (speeches September 1792-June 27 1793) Volume 10 (speeches June 27 1793-July 27 1794)

Oeuvres de Maximilien Robespierre (not the same as Oeuvres completés) Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3

Oeuvres de Jerome Pétion Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4

Oeuvres complètes de Saint-Just Volume 1 Volume 2

Works by Desmoulins

La France Libre (1789)

Discours de la Lanterne aux Parisiens (1789)

Révolutions de France et de Brabant (1789-1791) Volume 1 (number 1-13) Volume 2 (number 14-26) Volume 3 (number 27-39) Volume 4 (number 40-52) Volume 5 (number 53-65) Volume 6 (number 66-79) Volume 7 (number 80-86)

La Tribune des Patriots (1792) (all numbers)

Le Vieux Cordelier (1793-1794) (all numbers)

Jean Pierre Brissot démasqué (1792)

Histoire des Brissotins (1793)

Correspondences

Correspondance de Maximilien et Augustin Robespierre (1926)

Correspondance de George Couthon (1872)

Correspondance inédit de Camille Desmoulins (1836)

Some more Desmoulins letters can be found in Camille Desmoulins and his wife — passages from the history of the dantonists (1876) by Jules Claretie, particulary pages 463-469

Billuad-Varennes — mémoires et correspondance

Memoirs

Memoirs of Bertrand Barère Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4

Memoirs of Élisabeth Lebas In French In English

Mémoires de Charlotte Robespierre sur ses deux frères (1835) In French In English

Memoirs of Joseph Fouché Volume 1 (English) Volume 2 (French)

Mémoires de Brissot (1877)

Mémoires inédits de Pétion et mémoires de Buzot et Barbaroux (1866)

Memoirs of Barras — member of the Directorate (1899)

Free books

Danton (1978) by Norman Hampson (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

Robespierre (2014) by Hervé Leuwers (borrowable for an hour, renewable every hour)

Collot d’Herbois — légendes noires et Révolution (1995) by Michel Biard 

Choosing Terror (2014) by Marisa Linton

The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution (2015) by Timothy Tackett

Augustin: the younger Robespierre by (2011) by Mary-Young

Journaliste, sans-culotte et thermidorien: le fils de Fréron, 1754-1802, d’après des documents inédits (1909) by Raoul Arnaud

Resources shared by other tumblr users (thank you all very much!!!)

Resources shared by @iadorepigeons

Resources shared by @georgesdamnton 

Resources shared by @rbzpr:

Fabre d’Eglantine resources shared by @edgysaintjust

My own translations

Lucile Desmoulins’ diary (1788, 1789, 1790, 1792-1793)

Charlotte Robespierre et ses amis (1961)

Laponneraye on the life of Charlotte Robespierre (1835)

Abbé Proyart on the childhood of Robespierre (1795)

Philippeaux’s prison letters to his wife (1794)

Regulations for the internal exercises of the College of Louis-le-Grand (1769)

Regulations for law students at Louis-le-Grand (1782)

Instructions for the “quarter masters” of Louis-le-Grand

Belongings left by Danton, Fabre and Desmoulins after their arrest

Letters from Robespierre’s father

Robespierre family timeline

[aedesluminis]

Going absolutely crazy (again) over this excerpt saying that Joseph Carnot on the night of 18th Fructidor wanted to enter with his brothers (Lazare and Claude-Marie), each holding a pistol, in the DIrectory room and blow up the brains of Barras, Révellière and Rewbell.

Of course Lazare had to ruin this epic plan, by saying that he preferred to hide. 🙄

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we're all the same. there's nobody left to love us. ma vie de courgette / my life as a zucchini (2016) dir. claude barras

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My Life as a Zucchini (Ma vie de Courgette) Director: Claude Barras | France, 2016

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A List of Stop-Motion Feature-Length Films You Probably Haven't Tried.

If you’re anything like me, stop-motion animation is something that you’re sick of hearing about, because it’s always the same fucking recommendations. I took the time to browse over Wikipedia’s “List of stop-motion films” and do what I could to create a list of stop-motion feature-length films that might be worth a watch and that you haven’t constantly heard animation brats cream themselves over. Obviously, this list is not perfect, it’s mostly based off of the films I was able to find generally high reviews for on Letterboxd, but this list will contain nothing from Aardman, nothing from Laika, nothing from Wes Anderson, Tim Burton, or Henry Selick, but will contain at least a handful of things you haven't heard constant chatter about. These films are also fully stop-motion, so nothing from Ray Harryhausen or Jan Švankmajer either. Oh, and no shorts or television, obviously.

I will go ahead and put the following eight as films that aren't as frequently referenced in "best stop-motion films of all time" articles, but will find their ways into conversations about stop-motion without much difficulty;

René Laloux's "Fantastic Planet" (1973)

Will Vinton's "The Adventures of Mark Twain" (1985)

Adam Elliot's "Mary and Max" (2009)

Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson "Anomalisa" (2015)

Claude Barras's "My Life as a Zucchini" (2016) [French]

Phil Tippett's "Mad God" (2021)

Dean Fleischer Camp's "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" (2021)

Guillermo del Toro's "Pinocchio" (2022)

If you haven't seen those eight, I'd take care of that first. Now, we hit other stuff.

Lotte Reiniger's "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" (1926) [German]

Wladyslaw Starewicz & Irene Starewicz "The Tale of the Fox" (1937) [French]

Ivo Caprino's "The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix" (1975) [Norwegian]

Piotr Kamler's "Chronopolis" (1982) [French]

Chris Taylor & Mark Hall's "The Wind in the Willows" (1983)

Dave Borthwick's "The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb" (1993)

Stanislav M. Sokolov & Derek W. Hayes's "The Miracle Maker" (2000)

Christiane Cegavske's "Blood Tea and Red String" (2006)

Jan Balej's "One Night in One City" (2007) [Czech]

Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar's "A Town Called Panic" (2009) [French]

Fernando Cortizo's "The Apostle" (2012) [Spanish]

Chris Sullivan's "Consuming Spirits" (2012)

Paul Cowan & Amer Shomali "The Wanted 18" (2014)

Jan Balej's "Little from the Fish Shop" (2015) [Czech]

Takahide Hori's "Junk Head" (2017) [Japanese]

Michael Mort's "Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires" (2018)

Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña's "The Wolf House" (2018) [Spanish]

Paloma Baeza Niki, Lindroth von Bahr, Emma De Swaef, & Marc James Roels's "The House" (2022)

That's what I've got for the time being. If you can recommend a feature-length, majority stop-motion film that's not Aardman, Laika, Wes, Burton, or Selick, I'd be more than happy to look it over and see about adding it to the list. Enjoy.

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Top five animated movies? :D

Animated Feature Films:

My Life as a Zucchini, dir. Claude Barras

Nightmare Before Christmas, dir. Henry Selick

Fantastic Planet, dir. Rene Laloux

Watership Down, dir. Martin Rosen

Akira, dir. Katsuhiro Otomo

Animated Shorts (links under the click):

Father and Daughter, dir. Michael Dudok de Wit

Symphony No. 42, dir. Busci Reka

Ichthys, dir. Marek Skrobecki

Women's Letters (trailer), dir. Augusto Zanovello

Hedgehog in the Fog, dir. Jurij Norstein

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) dir. Michel Gondry.

“Sometimes I think people don't understand how lonely it is to be a kid, like you don't matter. So, I'm eight, and I have these toys, these dolls. My favorite is this ugly girl doll who I call Clementine, and I keep yelling at her, "You can't be ugly! Be pretty!" It's weird, like if I can transform her, I would magically change, too.”

Ma vie de courgette (2016) dir. Claude Barras.

“Sometimes I’m a bit sad inside.”

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My Week(s) in Reviews: June 23, 2023

Sorry, it’s been an awkwardly scheduled month. Here’s what I’ve been watching...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson, 2023)

A masterful amalgamation of animation styles, narrative ideas and next-level voice performances. As visually breathtaking as it is emotionally ambitious as it is structurally exciting and entertaining. - 9.5/10

The Flash (Andy Muschietti, 2023)

I had a lot of fun with it despite its visual flaws and iffy plot mechanics. Ezra Miller was fantastic, but but even better were those left-field cameos. - 7/10

Renfield (Chris McKay, 2023)

Had a blast with this one. A super-bloody, silly take on the Dracula mythos. Cage was fangtastic. I’m not sorry. - 7.5/10

Inside (Vasilis Katsoupis, 2023)

Boring. Willem really needed to go full Lighthouse, here, and he did not. - 3/10

Missing (Nicholas D. Johnson & Will Merrick, 2023)

It uses its format well, though not quite as well as Searching and Unfriended before it. It got me on the ending, though. For some reason I wasn’t even close to thinking in that direction, so extra points for that. - 6.5/10

65 (Scott Beck & Bryan Woods, 2023)

Bad. Just really bad. Chock-full of lame ideas, trite execution and a color-by-numbers screenplay that’s been done infinitely better hundreds if not thousands if not millions of times. </hyperbole> But you get what I’m saying. - 2/10

Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021)

An intimately told sci-fi fantasy about the bonds between mothers and daughters. It’s a sweet film that I wish would have hit me harder. - 7/10

My Life as a Zucchini (Claude Barras, 2016)

Ugly animation, but its heart is in the right place. Plus, the dude straight-up murdered his mother. Extra points for being bold. - 4.5/10

Reality (Tina Satter, 2023)

An effectively lean and extremely well-acted piece of cinéma vérité that fails in truthfully recognizing just how big a piece of shit Reality Winner actually is. - 5.5/10

Zack Snyder’s Justice League (Zack Snyder, 2021)

Watched in anticipation of The Flash. I had only ever seen the theatrical cut, previously. This is a significant improvement. But damn, it’s overlong. And it leans too heavily on the worst of its characters. And The Flash is still the MVP. - 7/10

Enjoy!

-Timothy Patrick Boyer.

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My Life as a Zucchini (2016) dir. Claude Barras

[archiving-my-thoughts]

Why Children Need Evil

When looking at old children’s stories like the Grimm fairytales, it is interesting to note that they don’t shy away from showing the horrors of evil. Sweet grandmothers get eaten by wolves and jealous stepmothers try to kill their stepdaughters. These stories were written with the intention to teach the young readers and listeners certain morals, and using these graphic descriptions of evil certainly helped getting that message across.

However, throughout the years, these stories have been cleaned up as to say. Think of the classis Disney films where evil was still present, but always defeated in the end. Yes, Ursula was a terrifying figure, but she is defeated and Ariel is allowed to keep her legs and stay with her true love. A stark contrast with the original version by Hans Christian Andersen where the little mermaid sacrifices herself because she is unwilling to kill her prince. Furthermore, the Disney version doesn’t include the fact that the little mermaid feels excruciating pain with every step she takes on land.

The changes to these classic tales are not necessarily wrong. It is understandable why a company like Disney wants to exclude the horrific passages in some of these classic tales. Their prime audience is very young and therefore the films have to be marketable to young families. Happy endings will do the job, horrifying depictions of evil not so much. Furthermore, these films don’t have the intention to teach the viewer something. It is great if you as a viewer learn something from the film but ultimately they are made for entertainment purposes. That is fine because we need fun, uplifiting media in this world.

However, the danger of excluding these depictions of evil is that children will grow up in a world where every childrens book or film tells them good will always win and evil is defeated every single time. A lovely sentiment, but it is simply not true. We live in a more nuanced world, where good people might do bad things and the bad people might do good things.

Children need to learn how to deal with existential problems and fear, like feeling alone or abandoned. Ignoring these realistic feelings does not help, but seeing a fictional character go through the same emotions does. Films and books help children explore in a safe environment how to hold your own in a world that can be terrifying. They see how someone else deals with their problems and can adapt those teachings in their own life. Facing the more horrifying depictions of evilness is scary, but doing it within a film world where it does not immediately affect you gives a sense of protection. As a viewer you might still feel scared, angry or sad, but it

It must be said, however, that nowadays a lot of childrens content does actually show a more realistic worldview. Where it used to be that good always wins, we now see a more nuanced world where the heroes might do evil deeds, and the bad guys do good. An unpredictable film world like that challenges us as an audience because we have to engage with the material. We actively think about the character’s decisions and how this affects them.

In conclusion, young audiences do not need to be talked down to in media. Yes, it is good to remain critical of what exactly they are seeing on screen and how this affects them, but ultimately children need to see a more realistic film world to help them hold their own in the real world. Does that mean all childrens content should be realistic and filled with graphic images of evil? No. But we do need to keep showing them a more nuanced worldview within media to give them a chance to explore those feelings.

Film tip:

Ma vie de Courgette – Claude Barras (2016)

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"Selvagens", de Claude Barras | #FestivalVarilux 2024, na Cineflix Cinemas de Santos: