Police Squad! is a television comedy series first broadcast in 1982. It was a spoof of police dramas, packed with visual gags and non sequiturs. While a parody of many television shows and movies, it bore a particular resemblance to the Lee Marvin cop show, M Squad. Police Squad! was created by th

Clever, Funny, Sardonic, Whimsical

French writer, often called the greatest innovator of form of his generation. He was a highly-regarded French Jewish novelist, filmmaker and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Perec was orphaned at an early age: his father was killed in action in World War II, and his mother died in a

Absurd, Clever, Conceptual, Experimental, Oulipo, Playful, Quirky, Repetition, Whimsical

The medium didn't matter, but the object meant everything. Whether he was using his canvas for a Cubist experiment or his camera for an avant-garde digression, Fernand Leger always placed the object at the center of his work. Leger was the only French Cubist to devote himself, throughout his c

Avant-garde film, Clever, Collage, Cubism, Futurism, Illusive, Pioneering, Sophisticated, Subtle

Jean Epstein had a theory. The star of his theory was the machine -- an anti-hero, a character the audience loved to hate. Epstein recognized the machine as an extension of humans, who manipulate objects, but magnificently immortal. A filmmaker, Epstein cast the camera, his own personal extension, in

Clever, Hallucinatory, Intense, Machinistic, Manic, Surrealist film