saw Bastards. I like that Claire Denis uses The Tindersticks in the soundtracks of two of her films
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 April 2019 01:47 (five years ago) link
She's used the Tindersticks or Stuart Staples in every film she's made since Nenette et Boni in 1996!
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 4 April 2019 01:57 (five years ago) link
never saw Nenette et Boni, only started noticing it with the title song to Trouble Every Day. didn't realize that they did the scores for 35 Rhums and White Material
― Dan S, Thursday, 4 April 2019 02:21 (five years ago) link
amazing scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIIzc_DluY4
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 April 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
I like that! US Go Home is another one of her films I still have to watch
glad to see Gregoire Colin show up in so many of her films
― Dan S, Sunday, 7 April 2019 23:53 (five years ago) link
she loves amateur dance scenes so much. i do too!
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 7 April 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link
They always express character.
Alex Descas is amazing in No Fear No Die… viscerally painful. And 180 degrees from his character 18 years later in 35 Rhums.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 03:42 (five years ago) link
I really liked ‘35 Rhums’ but don’t think I’ve seen any of Denis’ other films.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 08:29 (five years ago) link
out today on CC
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6380-let-the-sunshine-in-one-love
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
Claire on bad men
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6392-all-the-bad-men-in-let-the-sunshine-in
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 May 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
Do you have gluten-free olives?
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 June 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
That actor is Xavier Beauvois, the director of Of Gods and Men and Les Guardiennes. He's very good in that scene!
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Monday, 3 June 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
yep
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 June 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
Bfi putting on a season of her films this month
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 June 2019 21:59 (five years ago) link
I just got back from Brazil and felt like banging you!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 00:49 (five years ago) link
keep it to yourself streaming here http://www.lecinemaclub.com/
― devvvine, Friday, 14 June 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
for yourself*
― devvvine, Friday, 14 June 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
thinking back on it, "high life" plays better in my head as one big joke about being way too high all the time
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
or onanistic
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
High Life is a really great title
― Dan S, Thursday, 29 August 2019 02:41 (five years ago) link
Bad take
“The fact Adèle Haenel got up and walked out [at the Césars] – I mean, she has the right to, but with her finger pointed at us shouting "shame!" – I found that a bit strange. People voted, they thought Polanski's film was the best, that's the Césars." – Claire Denis pic.twitter.com/si3b1V57DZ— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) March 9, 2020
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
Why?
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 March 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
Well, for one they probably thought Ladj Ly was the best, but he won Best Film and couldn't win both
― Frederik B, Monday, 9 March 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
Yeah, there were five other options still.
― crusty but malignant (Eric H.), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
Adèle Haenel is a victim of child sex abuse and the fact that she vocally objected to this win and left the auditorium is laudable. What’s she supposed to do? Sit quietly and hope that they do better next year?
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
I haven't read it yet but there's a whole interview with Claire Denis in Le Monde about this. She seems to be saying that Adèle Haenel's anger is 'fundamentally just' but she didn't 'pick the right time to speak out', whatever the fuck that means.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
I'm also weirded out by this argument:
A quoi sert, d’ailleurs, de le dire si tard [que « distinguer Polanski, ce serait cracher sur les victimes »] ? Dans cette logique, il faudrait priver Polanski de toute aide de l’Etat et l’interdire au Centre national de la cinématographie, comme semble l’y encourager le ministre de la culture. Mais dès lors que Polanski est autorisé à vivre en France et à faire des films en France, il me semble difficile de l’éconduire aussi tardivement.
Quick translation:
What point is there, incidentally, in saying it so late [that honouring Polanski is tantamount to spitting in the victims' faces]? If we go by this logic, Polanski should be denied all state funding and be banned from the Centre national de la cinématographie, which is what the minister of culture seems to be advocating. But insofar as Polanski is given leave to reside in France and to make films in France, it seems difficult to usher him out so late.
Ok…?
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
Minister for culture otm.
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Monday, 9 March 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
I haven't read it yet but there's a whole interview with Claire Denis in Le Monde about this. She seems to be saying that Adèle Haenel's anger is 'fundamentally just' but she didn't 'pick the right time to speak out', whatever the fuck that means.― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, March 9, 2020 2:39 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, March 9, 2020 2:39 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Booooo. Denis calling her protest "strange" is stupid & and lol you always know someone has actually picked 'the right time to speak out' when others criticize them for exactly that.
but Polanski's film won--I guess "thats the Cesars"
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 March 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
(and I am booing Denis, I am with you pom)
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 March 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
Poor guy has been tested positive for Covid-19. :(
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 9 March 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
Did Both Sides of the Blade play anywhere beside a couple of obscure DC-area theaters? My initial impression is Let the Sunshine In except bad, so I'll excuse anyone who missed this for whatever reason.
(The downtown Landmark theater that usually gives this sort of film one week is tied up right now with the Thor and Top Gun movies.)
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Saturday, 23 July 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
https://metrograph.com/claire-denis-introduces-lintrus/
― multiocular o (map), Monday, 19 September 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link
No chatter about the new one, eh? I'm almost finished.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 December 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
Which one? There were two this year right?
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
not managed to see either of the two ones but seems strange how quickly she seems to have swung from being extremely en vogue to out of it
― devvvine, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
Haven't seen Stars at Noon but Both Sides of the Blade is up there with Let the Sunshine In among her newer stuff, for me
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Doesn't Beau Travail scoring so highly in the S&S poll mean she's still in some kind of vogue (genuine question!) Or does it cement her as a prolific artist whose recent work is doomed to be compared unfavourably with her greatest hit(s)? White Material - a sobering 13 years ago - is the last one that really did it for me, and I still think it's a bit neglected.
I liked this quote from her in a recent Sight and Sound:
To meet Marguerite Duras was to go to the kitchen and learn how to cook
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
stars at noon worked for me ~ it nicely captured the confusing nature of an accidental new relationship btwn qualley & allwyn's characters w the similarly confusing geopolitical backdrop--one's left uncertain of anothers motivations at every turn idk i think it pulled it off tho i can def see ppl dismiss this
plus the tindersticks title track is lovely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzE0XSeQpO0
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 12:40 (one year ago) link
curious abt the denis johnson novel also
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link
Cinema Guild announced that the new Blu-ray for “35 Shots of Rum” is being corrected because the wrong movie was pressed on to the disc.
Some buyers who pre-ordered it have received it, and upon playing said disc, the movie is hilariously “Road House” with Patrick Swayze.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 04:02 (nine months ago) link