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
no, the NYT doesn't go into that kinda arcana.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Matt Groening's Paradox of Cinema:
- the French are funny - sex is funny - comedies are funny
Yet, no French sex comedies are funny.
― Formerly Painful Dentistry, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
rong
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 17 July 2008 08:34 (fifteen years ago) link
speaking of which: i'm watching LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON and i'm not into it, and i usually like rohmer.
― amateurist, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
partly i just don't like zouzou at all
yeah, that one is probably my least favorite Rohmer and Zouzou is a big factor. Great ending though, which made me realize that with Rohmer the main action is a always off camera.
― baaderonixx, Friday, 18 July 2008 07:34 (fifteen years ago) link
YES you are so right, the last scene redeemed the movie.
― amateurist, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
do you think we were expected to judge the zouzou character?
― amateurist, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone been?
http://www.camdenartscentre.org/exhibitions/?id=100481
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 9 August 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
just for the envy of Alex in SF:
http://www.filmforum.org/films/crimewave.html
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm sick of films "full of atmosphere, emotion and angst"
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
very late xpost to amateurist: I think Rohmer never really judges his female leads. In the Conte Moraux cycle, the two recurring types of the good girl and the tempteress are just shown as leading their healthy lives, while the man chases paper mills and ultimately comes across as pathetic. 'Genou de Claire' is my favorite example of this.
One counter-example is 'Nuits de la Pleine lune' where Bulle Ogier takes on that role. Again we realize at the end of that movie that while the main character was building up all these tiny dramas on camera, the real stuff was happening behind teh scenes.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 14 August 2008 07:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I will say that Diva has both artiness and action (Jules riding his moped through the Metro).
I don't exactly recommend Ne Le Dis a Personne, but it was refreshing to see a French movie that wasn't exclusively set in BoBo dinner party-ready Paris apartments. Although that may owe something to having been based on an American novel.
― j.lu, Thursday, 14 August 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Guillaume Depardieu dies at 37:
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006843.html
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Wanted to see this for a couple of years, can't wait:
http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/films/my-little-loves.html
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
haha man that looks SO FRENCH
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
yes its PROPER FRENCH!!!
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 February 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Went back for Vivre sa Vie today, cracking stuff - well done Lumiere, renovation is terrific and groundbreaking on the leg room front.
Next month I see the Nouvelle Vague thing is 50 years old: really looking fwd to a couple of curios and the Varda screening at the nft way more than Truffaut (who is ok but don't feel like checking out more than I have), and I don't really know what's so special about Chabrol.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 15 March 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link