I love the little Godard/New Wave pastiche at the end when they show the bit of film that Rene had completed. Meanwhile, Assayas gets to make his own Hong Kong/Feuillade mash-up in the scene where she steals the necklace.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 May 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
Only saw Irma Vep once, a few years ago, but he does the same thing (really well) in Something in the Air, ending with a clip of an experimental film his old girlfriend Laure is in.
― clemenza, Friday, 29 May 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
(With a great Kevin Ayers song playing.)
― clemenza, Friday, 29 May 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
Wasp Network is only the second of his films that I've seen (after Personal Shopper, which I really like) so I have no real way to fit it into his filmography. It's a pretty straightforward espionage thriller based on true events; the story is interesting (I don't remember the incident from the very scattered attention I paid to the news in the mid 90s) enough and the performances are fine, but as a film it is kinda generic, I suppose. Perhaps this explains why I am seeing almost zero discussion of it anywhere?
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
Have only seen Personal Shopper and Carlos, both of which I love - based on those, I feel like I'd be pretty into the idea of him doing a straightforward espionage thriller
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
I didn't like it. Generic is otm. Haven't seen Carlos but a friend told me the new one is basically a worse version.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
The perfect couple pic.twitter.com/08VJAVm0tk— Nicky Smith (@nickyotissmith) February 9, 2021
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 06:54 (three years ago) link
Non-Fiction was on Kanopy so I watched it purely because it was Assayas... my God it was awful!
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 09:19 (three years ago) link
Anyone watch the Irma Vep miniseries? I just finished the first episode, which I enjoyed. Hard for me to imagine that even at eight hours it will supplant the original for me, but it’s pretty entertaining on its own.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 27 August 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
The original?
― I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
I mean the original Irma Vep movie, not the original Les Vampires.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 27 August 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
I thought it was excellent!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 27 August 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
demonlover robbed
― flopson, Sunday, 28 August 2022 05:25 (one year ago) link
The new Irma Vep series doesn't really go anywhere at all plot-wise (if that is important to people), but it is a nice reflection on the 1996 film and the original 1915-1916 series, and is funny, inventive and visually beautiful
― Dan S, Monday, 29 August 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
still think about SUMMER HOURS all the time
need to go back to CLOUDS soon, had to turn it off for extradiegetic reasons last month
― k3vin k., Monday, 29 August 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
Summer Hours is close to being my favorite film by anybody.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 August 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
Irma Vep: The Series was a really fun summer watch. The way things are going I’d be surprised if HBO funds another hour long show so niche and low stakes any time soon.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 01:45 (one year ago) link
Odd sentence from the Assayas Wikipedia entry: "His work has become synonymous with the film movement known as the New French Extremity ..."
Maybe you could put Demonlover in there, but that's a long way from his work being synonymous. I've never classed him with that group at all.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
Right up there with Arnaud Desplechin among horror-heads.
― Bait Kush (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
when I saw the Irma Vep series I had just rewatched Maren Ade’s Everyone Else (a film I liked much more on second viewing). It also starred Lars Eidinger, and I thought it was interesting to see the comparison between his roles in those
― Dan S, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
Finished the TV series, a good diversion during COVID week. I loved it! It's completely ridiculous that it even exists (as several characters note at various points), it's inherently self-indulgent, but it's so much fun. The last episode is pretty glorious, it's really firing on all cylinders.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 3 September 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
I watched Summer Hours again this afternoon: the best film of the 2000s (that decade, to be clear). So wise about property and the benign indifference b/w siblings and parents. I know no other film like it.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 00:22 (one year ago) link
Is it still the image on your homepage? Haven’t checked in a while.
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link
Not anymoe.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 00:43 (one year ago) link
I liked it a lot, will have to see it again.
I'm still thinking about the new version of Irma Vep, a story about the chaos and chemistry of making movies, and about how successful filmmaking involves many accidents - personal relationships, fortuitous casting, productive clashes between film departments. I loved that it made many references to Assayas' first iconic Irma Vep (1996) as well as to the original source of inspiration, Les Vampires from 1916
― Dan S, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link
I still think Boarding Gate is really underrated, the sense of movement is so thrilling (same as in Demonlover I suppose)
― groovemaaan, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 21:38 (one year ago) link
Watched the early short film Laissé inachevé à Tokyo with Elli Medeiros - the plot is kind of nothing (bored author goes to Japan and gets involved with/escapes from gangsters, told non-linearly) but it's absolutely beautiful to look at and well worth 20 minutes of your time.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 02:10 (one year ago) link
omg demonlover
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 02:12 (one year ago) link
beyond description, a thriller that barely has a story and if there is one its plot movements only occur only in the unconscious senses, in diffracted reflections, in the cold light droning from computer screens, also contains tentacle hentai and gimp outfits, the best movie ever made
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
like an episode of succession that gradually wanders into a dennis cooper novel
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 13:44 (one year ago) link
loved watching the power relationships in this film invert and revert and spiderweb with the film barely remarking on it at all
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
It's a hell of a trip, that film.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 13:56 (one year ago) link
It deserved a couple votes.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
Kind of want to watch Carlos again, the cinema version, never saw the miniseries, maybe will finally watch Demonlover first.
― Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
Maybe I did watch Demonlover before but have forgotten it, so another reason to watch.
― Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
Recommend the whole Carlos series! I enjoyed the immersion.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 20:26 (one year ago) link
Indeed. A real kick.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
Not easy to stream it, unfortunately.
― Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
can't believe you hadn't watched demonlover, brad
now go see boarding gate next!!
― groovemaaan, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 21:32 (one year ago) link
started from the bottomnow we're here
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 21:34 (one year ago) link
dreamlover on Criterion Channel!
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 August 2023 13:28 (ten months ago) link
er Demonlover
Finally watched Something in the Air after meaning to forever. Very much enjoyed it, I thought it was charming and evocative. Traffics in a certain level of nostalgic romanticism, but that's OK with me. I'm kind of a sucker for that whole era.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 02:06 (nine months ago) link
Have you seen Cold Water? It's like a blueprint for Something in the Air, and--I think--much better.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 02:21 (nine months ago) link
No, it's also been on the mean-to list for a while. I should.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 02:45 (nine months ago) link