Olivier Assayas Poll

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

Summer Hours is close to being my favorite film by anybody.

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.

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.

Right up there with Arnaud Desplechin among horror-heads.

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

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.

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.

Is it still the image on your homepage? Haven’t checked in a while.

Not anymoe.

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

I still think Boarding Gate is really underrated, the sense of movement is so thrilling (same as in Demonlover I suppose)

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.

omg demonlover

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

like an episode of succession that gradually wanders into a dennis cooper novel

loved watching the power relationships in this film invert and revert and spiderweb with the film barely remarking on it at all

It's a hell of a trip, that film.

It deserved a couple votes.

Kind of want to watch Carlos again, the cinema version, never saw the miniseries, maybe will finally watch Demonlover first.

Maybe I did watch Demonlover before but have forgotten it, so another reason to watch.

Recommend the whole Carlos series! I enjoyed the immersion.

Indeed. A real kick.

Not easy to stream it, unfortunately.

can't believe you hadn't watched demonlover, brad

now go see boarding gate next!!

started from the bottom
now we're here

dreamlover on Criterion Channel!

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.

Have you seen Cold Water? It's like a blueprint for Something in the Air, and--I think--much better.

No, it's also been on the mean-to list for a while. I should.