― 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 14 May 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link
cozen i'd advise seeing marquise of o!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 15 May 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 15 May 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― g e o f f (gcannon), Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― g e o f f (gcannon), Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― 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
― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― youn, Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx rides the neon lights (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyone seen the new one that's going to be at the NYFF? Being called his last in the fest blurb.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Shit I hadn't heard this. I guess at age 87 it might be time to let go.
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 08:05 (sixteen years ago) link
That's too bad, but I guess he's up there age-wise. It's a ridiculous proposition, but when people ask me who my favorite director is, it's always a toss-up between Rohmer and Bunuel. There's something appealing to me about his ethical depth and quiet, personal storytelling style. Also, I love his total lack of flash when compared to his contemporaries.
― Bill in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 15:36 (sixteen years 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 (five 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 (three months ago) link