http://www.weltchronik.de/ws/bio/r/renoirJ/rj01979a-RenoirJean-18940915b-19790212d.jpg
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― youn, Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Try and catch "EspÃritu de la colmena, El " or - The spirit of the beehive, by Victor Erice - a spanish masterpiece from the 70's that takes a lot of influence from Jean Vigo, also by Tereence Mallick - (Erice also made 3 films in 30 years or so like mallick), it's a gothic tale about life,death and nature from the innocent eyes of 2 kids, beatifully shot and very delicate in direction, it's a unique masterpiece.
― Made for maddame, Sunday, 26 March 2006 00:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Which ones? I'm thinking Hotel du Nord, Boudu Saved From Drowning, Les COusins, and Pierrot Le Fou - if I'm lucky.
― youn (youn), Saturday, 29 July 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot 4-Tay: Hold these goddamn chickens! (marmotwolof), Saturday, 29 July 2006 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Picnics and Pixie Stix (Charles McCain), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
The Clockmaker of St. PaulI recommend seeing this, Tavernier is great at working with actors and I think he's often overlooked here in the US. Also Série Noire.
― dar1a g (daria g), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Why not? Too talky?
― Marmot 4-Tay: I'll sip from his well without hesitation. (marmotwolof), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― JTS (JTS), Saturday, 29 July 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 July 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
hey, Jeanne Moreau was 80 yesterday! What a gal.
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/005352.html
I saw her in Mademoiselle recently, having a ball as a demon-woman.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 24 January 2008 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
also, Andre Techine's '80s AIDS movie finally opens in NY next week.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
emmanuelle devos is lights out
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i wouldn't mind attending a conference in devos, if you know what i am getting at
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
eau non vous di-int
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
lol
― s1ocki, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Moreau seemed to think she was playing Bette Davis in The Star in that last Ozon movie.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I will have to go see the Eustache films at FIAF on Tuesday.
― youn, Sunday, 13 April 2008 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I just saw "The Last Mistress" -- directly translated it should be "An Old Mistress" as in "an old story" but eh
I thought it was wonderful - a "small" film in a way but I never realized Asia Argento was such an actress! Christ almighty she was like an animal. I've known people like that.
My favorite thing may have been the way it was a period piece, set in the height of 1830s Parisian society, yet you still got the slightly damp, dingy feel that must have pervaded even the poshest drawing rooms in those days
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 April 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean I'm just so accustomed to any period film feeling like every prop cost a million dollars, that every drop of sunlight fills a room with a luxurious glow, that all is powdered and pampered and smelling of leather and roses, when actually even the nobility of those days lived in some rather rough and drafty places and never washed, despite their rococo brocade
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 April 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
La France mostly sucks.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 14 July 2008 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i just saw that movie The Last Mistress which i really liked
― Surmounter, Monday, 14 July 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm sure Eric H will, too.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 14 July 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
What can I say? Surmounter and I share a love for pillowy male lips.
― Eric H., Monday, 14 July 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Me too, but the hairy femme "lip" closeups...
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 14 July 2008 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
That's where the Sex is Comedy thing comes in.
― Eric H., Monday, 14 July 2008 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
one of my favorite movies is french... "Diva". also :"Ponette"
― warmsherry, Monday, 14 July 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
nooo asia's lips were fine.
although that blond actress, she was something ELSE. hermangarde.
― Surmounter, Monday, 14 July 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Ramz, I refer you to the wall o' 'ginas that's floating around ILX.
― Eric H., Monday, 14 July 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
hah
― Surmounter, Monday, 14 July 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
how did we get this far with no mention of banlieue 13, renaissance or immortel? all of which are gorgeous and basically awesome except renaissance has a really disappointing score + a few scary "uncanny valley" bits with the mo-cap
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 July 2008 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
oh right I'm the only person who cares about foreign digital backlot cinema
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 July 2008 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Clouzot's Les Diaboliques is pretty unbeatable for French noir.
-- Jonathan Z., Tuesday, January 6, 2004 4:10 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link
― Surmounter, Monday, 14 July 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i thought renaissance was a total zzzzzz
― omar little, Monday, 14 July 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Eff that digi-shit, Jacques Tati pisses on it. More pantomime!
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 14 July 2008 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice to be reminded of the "golden age" of ILx.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 08:19 (fifteen years ago) link
^'There are no new waves, there is only the ocean'
― yungblut, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 08:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I just tried to see The Last Mistress but the print had mysteriously not turned up. I suspect some filthy London projectionist has squirreled it away for his personal Asia Argento collection. It's being rescheduled for September.
― Alba, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 08:50 (fifteen years ago) link
it was pretty zzzz at points but it had some really really awesome bits. I give them probably more credit than they deserve for the purposeful obtuseness of going to great lengths to combine all that technology just to make a film that has like five colors
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 08:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw this
http://thecia.com.au/reviews/h/images/hidden-cache-poster-2.jpg
last week and it's absolutely brilliant. So, not shit at all.
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Two words for Pete: Carole Bouquet.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think that poster for Hidden his very good. Daniel Auteil looks like he's drunk and embarrassing his wife at a wedding reception disco.
― Alba, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Recently watched Leconte's Tango, which managed to be really entertaining even while harping on the "lol men and women sure are different amirite" theme. Crazy husband-murdering girl was way cute.
― clotpoll, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 09:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I can watch Melville's Le Cercle Rouge endlessly. Not sure exactly why but I think the lack of dialoge helps.
http://www.premiere.fr/var/premiere/storage/images/cinema/photos-film/themes/les-brigands-bien-aimes/alain-delon-dans-le-cercle-rouge-1970-de-j-p-melville/12396138-1-fre-FR/alain_delon_dans_le_cercle_rouge_1970_de_j_p_melville_reference.jpg
― sam500, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link
perhaps I just didn't understand La France:
http://academichack.net/reviewsMay2008.htm#France
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
wasn't that review basically what the NYT said?
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link