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
Truffaut's Vivement Dimanche (a crazy Hitchcock ode) is one of the best things I saw this year so far.
― Ludo, Sunday, 15 March 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't really know what's so special about Chabrol.
'Cause he's one of the few Hitchcock disiples who has actually gotten beyond jerking off to the Vertigo/NxNW/Psycho trilogy?
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Abel Gance's Napoleon is coming to town (in two parts) later this week. I hope to make the screenings.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link
French critics really into this film right now: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1314280/
looks awwwful
― poortheatre, Monday, 16 March 2009 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I just saw Mon Oncle which I enjoyed, except that the subtitling was kind of bad on the version I watched (although it's the type of film that, for the most part, could probably get away without dialogue, and I would guess that a more recent version would have updated the subtitles anyway). Otherwise, good stuff, was a bit surprised it hadn't already been mentioned here.
― salsa shark, Sunday, 29 March 2009 02:42 (fifteen years ago) link
there's a Tati thread
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 March 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
The Class was great.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 29 March 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
dassin retro at film forum right now
― i want an internet that has fun arts and crafts to do at home (donna rouge), Sunday, 29 March 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw Night and the City yesterday. It's my favorite movie ever. I think he only made 2 films in France. Preview for Up Tight! was pretty crazy.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 29 March 2009 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
The Gance Napoleon is the shit (especially the first half)
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 March 2009 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
k, I'll persist w/Chabrol whenever I get the chance.
Wish I liked Tati more...Playtime does look pretty good from the bits of it I've seen...
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Mid-60's to mid-70's Chabrol are some of my favorites. Definitely give him another chance. "This Man Must Die","The Butcher" and "Unfaithful Wife" are excellent.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Sunday, 29 March 2009 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
On the Chabrol tip, I'd like to put in a good word for Le Beau Serge, A Double Tour, Les Bonnes Femmes, Les Biches, The Story of Women, and Betty (especially that one), all in addition to those Jay mentioned. Have only seen a fraction of his 70 or so films. Haven't met an out and out stinker yet (the closest was a recent one Comedy of Power, which was more underdeveloped than bad).
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Just watched A Man Escaped last night and <333 françoise l'awesó, oui! Really liked L'Argent too. Bresson will come hang out in my DVD player all year! (Or at least until I've seen all of his films that the library has)
― Øystein, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
70?!?! I've seen Le Beau Serge and found it rough going...maybe some of the 1970s films might do something. After all, every film was amazing in the 70s ;-)
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Entre Les Murs/The Class is absolutely outstanding. the best new film i've seen in a long time.
― jed_, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, IMDB sez 71 (the newest of which is due later this year), but that includes TV stuff. So the actual feature count is in the 50s or 60s.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 April 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
The Class doesn't really say anything, does it? Not that hasn't been said in Up the Down Staircase etc.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 2 April 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
way to qualify. i think its a fair bit bleaker and has a lot of different things to say e.g. about gov't/bureaucracy/policy than up the down staircase but who cares if it says anything new??? even if it all it does is make the same points abt the french school system its still a pretty vital film imo
i mean werent u into that steve mcqueen movie dude wtf @ "doesnt really say anything"
― Lamp, Thursday, 2 April 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://reelsuave.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/water-lilies.jpg
Did anyone else see this? It's mostly par for the course French coming of age stuff, but the filmmaking itself is really beautiful. Almost every shot looks like a Gregory Crewdson photo or something; it's some of the best cinematography I've seen in a long time. It's all really haunting (and has a great soundtrack, too).
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Thursday, 2 April 2009 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
(I think it was released everywhere else as "Water Lilies," incidentally)
The Class isn't anywhere in Hunger's league on any score, DUDE. I like Cantet's shooting style and the actors -- far better than Up the Down Staircase -- but it's still the same old story, whereas Human Resources and Time Out weren't. Heading South and this one are a notch lower.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 2 April 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Do films have to "say something" to be truly great?
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 April 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
This was up on filmbrain the other day. It's an early 70s French tv ad for Schick aftershave directed by Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin starring the late, lovely Juliet Berto.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 April 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
TH, if a film engages in 'realistic' social observation (like LC did re employment / professional identity in his 2 best films, or education here), then they have to "say something" to be above average.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 2 April 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
do they just have to say something or do they have to say something new?
― Lamp, Thursday, 2 April 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link