― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago) link
momus has a good point here, in that this DOES seem to be a cardinal (which is to say classical) aspect of the screenwriting ethos in america, which is unfortunate i think.
some american directors are able to animate their characters as COMMUNITIES and lend to the audience remarkably vivid and unpatronizing impressions of the secondary and even tertiary characters...john ford at his best does this.
and then there are directors who seem to aim for a level of abstraction even for the primary characters, like hal hartley. this achieves something different from the "centers of goodness" momus laments, but it may not be everyone's cup of tea.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago) link
Any talk of French movies being all about people sitting about talking in cafés or dinner parties is about 30 years out of date. Actually, one of the interesting things about the French film industry today is that one actually exists, unlike anywhere else in Europe. The British, Italians, Germans etc. make movies but they don't really have a dedicated industry any more because the number of movies they make are so small.
There are an awful lot of crappy, middlebrow movies made in France which are never shown internationally, but no more so than there are crappy American movies. I can think of several French movies I've seen recently which I thought were pretty good - Irreversible, Harry L'ami qui vous veut du bien, L'Adversaire...
― Jonathan Z., Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
― david. (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link
Good night everybody.
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:51 (twenty years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 12 January 2004 09:24 (twenty years ago) link
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/story.jsp?story=483695
The last of these, 'Bob Le Flambeur,' was released in 1956! It's either the last film in the pre-war spirit or the first new wave film. I haven't seen all of these by any means, but he's dead-on about the Renoir -- it's an absolute corker.
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 09:59 (twenty years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
there's a long, not brilliant essay on him in the current sight & sound by david thomson.
― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Sight and Sound is so expensive here!
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
however it does have a wonderful quote by rivette on the abnormality of the film-making process: 'it is normal not to make films.'
― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 25 September 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Reed Moore (diamond), Saturday, 25 September 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 25 September 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Reed Moore (diamond), Saturday, 25 September 2004 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link
just seen my first rivette film (and his new film) 'histoire de marie et julien', and, at just over two hours, guess its more of a 'normal' length for him - its all about the clock people!
anyone else see it?
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 17 October 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Tuesday Night: 400 Blows - BBC2 Wed 20 Oct, 12:15 am
Wednesday Night: Shoot The Pianist - BBC2 Thu 21 Oct, 12:10 am
Thursday Night: The Woman Next Door - BBC2 Fri 22 Oct, 12:15 am
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 18 October 2004 08:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 18 October 2004 08:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
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wtf?it's a great movie mainly because emmanuelle bear (or how ever you spell it)one of the all time goregeous women, is naked for almost the entire movie.how can u forgot?!
― Made for maddam, Saturday, 25 March 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jena (JenaP), Saturday, 25 March 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Made for maddam, Saturday, 25 March 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link
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