#toutain

[weirdlookindog]

Boris Vallejo - The Revival of the Demon

cover art for Spanish Creepy #18 -Toutain Editor, 1980.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Roland Toutain on a vintage postcard

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Covered pitcher made of rock crystal, gold, enamel, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. Richard Toutain,......16th century, Prado Museum, Madrid, SPAIN

[byneddiedingo]

Jean Renoir, Roland Toutain, and Nora Gregor in The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)

Cast: Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Odette Talazac, Claire Gérard, Anne Mayen, Lise Elina, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette, Roland Toutain, Gaston Modot, Jean Renoir, Pierre Magnier. Screenplay: Jean Renoir, Carl Koch. Cinematography: Jean Bachelet. Production design: Max Douy, Eugène Lourié. Film editing: Marthe Huguet, Marguerite Renoir. 

The first time I saw The Rules of the Game, many years ago, I didn't get it. I knew it was often spoken of as one of the great films, but I couldn't see why. I had been raised on Hollywood movies, which fell neatly into their assigned slots: love story, adventure, screwball comedy, satire, social commentary, and so on. Jean Renoir's film was all of those things at once, to my confusion. I had to be weaned from narrative formulas to realize why this sometimes madcap, sometimes brutal tragicomedy is regarded so highly. And I had to learn why the period it depicts, the brink of World War II, isn't just a point in the rapidly receding past, but the emblematic representation of a precipice that the human world always seems poised upon, whether the chief threat to civilization is fascism, pandemic, or global climate change. The Rules of the Game is about us, dancing merrily on the brink, trying to ignore our mutual cruelty and to deny our blindness. Renoir's characters are blinded by lust and privilege, and they amuse us until they do horrible things like wantonly slaughter small animals or play foolish games whose rules they take too lightly. I'm afraid that makes one of the most entertaining (if disturbing) films ever made seem like no fun at all, but it should really be taken as a warning never to ignore the subtext of any work of art. Much of the film was improvised from a story Renoir provided, to the glory of such performers as Marcel Dalio as the marquis, Nora Gregor as his wife, Paulette Dubost as Lisette, Roland Toutain as André, Gaston Modot as Schumacher, Julien Carette as Marceau, and especially Renoir himself as Octave. Renoir's camera prowls relentlessly, restlessly through the giddy action and the sumptuousness of the sets by Max Douy and Eugène Lourié. It's not surprising that one of Renoir's assistants was the legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. And, given my own initial reaction to the film, it's also not surprising that The Rules of the Game was a critical and commercial flop, trimmed to a nubbin of its original length, banned by the Vichy government, and after its negative was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1942, potentially lost forever. Fortunately, prints survived, and by 1959 Renoir's admirers had reassembled it for a more appreciative posterity.

[streamondemand]

Jean Renoir's 'The Rules of the Game' on Criterion Channel

Jean Renoir’s ‘The Rules of the Game’ on Criterion Channel

The Rules of the Game (France, 1939), the last film that the great filmmaker Jean Renoir made in France before fleeing the Nazi invasion for the United States and Hollywood, has been proclaimed as one of the greatest films ever made by critics worldwide for decades. It begins with a young aviator (Roland Toutain) who, having completed an historic flight, commits a serious social faux pas and…

[lyrics365]

Summer Wine

[Verse 1] فنهار و ليل طال بعادك و جفاك يا من هو في و ما داري بلي صاير كل دقيقة فبالي نعيش فوطان خيالي حاير من قصتنا تنبع بحار و عصايف تهيج نسال سباب فراقنا حين انت و انا كنا واحد روحي من روحك عايشين مرافقين يديك خلاتني فطريقي تهت غنايتي سماحة سفينة كنانك مرساها [Chorus] Now give me the moonlight Now show me the sunlight Now give me the taste of summer wine I know we’ll be alright We no longer…

[fledgeling-heroes-r-us]

Backstories sure are fun.

If I'm correct, the one from the most recent time period would be Colette (1890's), then Tokihari (1660's), then Adam (1640's) and Zhen is from the furthest back by a very long way (1250's BC)

Colette also travels forward the least, because she travels to the cold war era while the others all end up in the modern day.

Tokihari is also a bit of an outlier because he's the only one who can return to his own time period freely.

[everylittlethingshedoesismagic]

Sunset in Cannon Beach.

USA, Oregon, Cannon Beach. September 9, 2024

Photos © Pierre Toutain-Dorbec

[weary-hearted-art]

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, The Toutain Farm at Honfleur, c.1845

[shaddad]

a ucrânia em guerra por pierre toutain

[weirdlookindog]

Enric Torres-Prat - Cover art for Spanish Creepy #8, 1979

[mybeingthere]

Reading newspapers....Miguel Almagro, (b. 1967, Spain).Miguel Almagro is an artist who won first prize in a competition for amateur artists which publisher Toutain held in 1990. As a result he became a contributor to Toutain’s magazines.

https://www.facebook.com/m.s.almagro...

[apaneladay]

Enrique Sánchez Abulí (writer), Jordi Bernet (artist) Torpedo 1936: Flash-Back (1983) Originally published in Creepy (Toutain) #42-43, 48-51

[gazpachoworld]

Jordi Bernet - original art from TORPEDO #5, Édition Toutain, 1987

[spaceintruderdetector]

Comix International Spain 1980 684 pages 

https://archive.org/details/raccolta-su..-comix-international-liberi-varios-b-n-e-colori-toutain-ed.-1980-cr/mode/2up

[lyrics365]

Summer Wine

[Verse 1] فنهار و ليل طال بعادك و جفاك يا من هو في و ما داري بلي صاير كل دقيقة فبالي نعيش فوطان خيالي حاير من قصتنا تنبع بحار و عصايف تهيج نسال سباب فراقنا حين انت و انا كنا واحد روحي من روحك عايشين مرافقين يديك خلاتني فطريقي تهت غنايتي سماحة سفينة كنانك مرساها [Chorus] Now give me the moonlight Now show me the sunlight Now give me the taste of summer wine I know we’ll be alright We no longer…