My memory of Pauline a la plage is clouded, but maybe instead of an appeal to naturalness, it could be an indictment, an acknowledgment, of artifice in love, even romantic love, which is supposed to be natural.
La carriere de Suzanne reminds me of the album Rattlesnakes by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. Something about the shirt collars and books on mantelpieces.
― youn, Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Again, my memory is clouded, but as i remember it, there is some tension between love and value that is tragic just as much as vanity is tragic. What does it mean to "love in vain"?
― youn, Sunday, 26 September 2004 03:39 (nineteen years ago) link
he's amazing, but really hard to get a handle on i find. i admire the purified/contrarian aspects of his aesthetic but sometimes i find the reasoning/ideas behind that aesthetic sort of suspect.
i saw a zillion rohmer films earlier this year as part of a complete retro at the cinematheque francaise. i think my favorite is "marquise d'o," although it's very very weird and discomforting.
and yeah, i really liked his new one, although i never go gaga over a rohmer film, i always leave kind of puzzled. his films are so ... clinical...or how do i put it? so...unruffled.... i'm not sensitive enough yet to his sensibility for them to really effect me emotionally.
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 26 September 2004 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link
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― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 26 September 2004 07:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh...am I in love and don't know it? < / emo>
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 26 September 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Friday, 22 October 2004 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
http://mapage.noos.fr/e.rohmer/images/anne%20laure%20meury.jpg
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 23 December 2004 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 23 December 2004 10:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I liked that thing with people walking about in paintings.
Or was that somebody else?
― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 24 December 2004 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 24 December 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 24 December 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005N9GF.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link
c0zen: no, but i should.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link
I watched 'la maman et la putain' earlier in the year, at the cinema no less. I think it's the first film I've watched with an intermission. everyone should see it.
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 31 December 2004 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Friday, 31 December 2004 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― youn, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link
might be a good start, but if you think you're going to stick around for more, put off 5. Of his films on the four seasons, I think I like Conte de printemps best.
― youn, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link
I actually like this one a lot. Great photography of snowy French streets in the Old Town by the late great Nestor Almendros.
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link
I might watch Conte d'Automne again, if I manage to see Sideways.
Here is a detailed review: Magical Realism in Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale, 1998).
― youn, Monday, 10 January 2005 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link
"Summer (Le Rayon Vert)" is transcendent, his best of the last 25 years. And Melvil Poupaud in "A Summer's Tale" is just sex on legs.
"Triple Agent" is quite moribund, alas.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― henry miller, Monday, 10 January 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link
I really would like to see more.
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 14 May 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 14 May 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
cozen i'd advise seeing marquise of o!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 15 May 2005 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link
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― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― g e o f f (gcannon), Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:21 (nineteen years ago) link
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― youn, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
I like A Summer's Tale even more
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
ok but it isn't on mubi
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
but it is!https://mubi.com/films/a-summers-tale
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
Mubi has 5 Rohmer's (The 4 Seasons Tales + LA COLLECTIONNEUSE which is great.)
BFI has 7 https://player.bfi.org.uk/search/subscription?q=rohmer&availability=1
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
^not in the US :(
― Rated “Blecchs” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
For either. HBO Max has a few though.
― Rated “Blecchs” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
MUBI US often doesn’t have a lot of stuff you guys have and for the other we get some kind of subset, BFI Player Classics.
― Rated “Blecchs” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
Mark is in the UK though. He didn't move thar far afaik!
James Redd - You guys get the Criterion channel though and I bet Mubi US has lots of great stuff we don't get.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
summer's tale is on amazon prime mubi uk but not on o/g mubi
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
I just linked to it on the real mubi uk!
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
o/g mubi is 29-films-in-29-days mubi
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
Wait you guys don’t get Criterion?Does that version of o/g MUBI still exist?
― Rated “Blecchs” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
Criterion Rohmer selection okay at the moment. MUBI US has an interesting Maurice Pialat series going on right now.
― Rated “Blecchs” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
it exists on my phone
the other bits are on my phone with it but i DISDANE them
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
Wait you guys don’t get Criterion?
Nope.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
If you use a VPN, get a new email address and take out a trial using a debit card, you can use it for a fortnight until it works out your card is not in the US.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
or so I heard.... (it worked last year)
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
or you can Venmo me your money and I'll see about getting you access.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
(Youth and age make one vulnerable (from naivete or nostalgia). This is incurred as life experience and observed with pathos held in reserve and without intrusion or judgment, not sardonically or cruelly and if familiar not overly so but with fondness and keenness for experience.)
― youn, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link
I don't have the services mentioned, but I have these films on DVD.
FWIW I quite like these seasonal tales and I think I enjoy Summer best.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
I have them on dvd too
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
I don't subscribe, but I noticed that Metrograph's streaming service ($5/month or $50/year) has three Rohmer films: "The Aviator's Wife," "Boyfriends and Girlfriends," and "Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle." It sounds like you can cancel your membership anytime, so you could just watch all their streaming stuff for one month for $5. Pretty interesting selection: https://metrograph.com/at-home/
― ernestp, Thursday, 6 October 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
"Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle." is my fave Rohmer. Indeed, one of my fave films by anybody.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Thursday, 6 October 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
Tales of the Four Seasons streaming on Criterion Channel.
god I love Melvil Poupaud.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 April 2023 16:21 (one year ago) link
If my favourite Rohmer isn't La Collectioneuse, it's one of the medieval films. The appeal of the rest escapes me, it's pleasant at best.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 00:08 (one year ago) link
Could never get into the costumed ones at all (except maybe Triple Agent). They seemed to miss the point of what made his films great - eg the minute dissection of every fray micro-dramas
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 07:37 (one year ago) link
The Lady and the Duke has more tension than his other films.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 09:19 (one year ago) link
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7154-eric-rohmers-tales-of-the-four-seasons
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 17:44 (six months ago) link
Love the bit in "Le Rayon Vert" where Delphine walks by a group of people discussing Jules Verne and decides to eavesdrop on them - because she heard the word "green" mentioned, I assume. It's absolutely vital to the film but it's done in such a casual way, the conversation is so natural, the people are plainly not actors. Then having the one old guy there get up and mansplain the physics of the green ray is just perfect.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Monday, 8 January 2024 22:36 (four months ago) link