French Film Search and Destroy

Resnais from 8th-10th june at the lumiere. No 'Muriel', it has the a screnning of nu-Resnais. Hoping to catch a cpl of these..

'mon oncle american' ftw

Just saw "Journal d'un cure de campagne." How did Bresson manage to cast Johnny Cash?

-- Frogman Henry, Saturday, 14 April 2007 16:32

Hahaha! I couldn't stop thinking the same thinking first time I watched it. And it was Johnny in his early speed-freak days, too! Spittin' image.

err, "thinking the same thing"...

will anyone ever release Malle's 'The Fire Within' (Feu Follet) on DVD? i consider my favorite movie i've never seen.

wait - it's already on DVD with English subs - part of the Louis Malle collection V.1 put out by Optimum earlier this year...

I just saw Mon Oncle for the first time a few weeks ago. What a treat.

the new Resnais is OK except for the script, ie Alan Ayckbourn.

No way am I seeing the new Bruno Dumont, but love the headline of Nathan Lee's bitchslap...

Just saw Army of Shadows -- the pace dawdles, but the last 30 minutes are pretty devastating.

"My American Uncle" ws one of the most intense cinematic experiences. I quite liked nu-Resnais even though I heard someone at the end hating on it--there is no neat, bright ending to it would you believe--comparing it to Mike Leigh :-(

(To be honest I can't remember what Mike Leigh's films are like)

The Lumiere are running a mini-season from one-time Resnais collaborator (and novelist) Alain Robbe-Grillet:

http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/SFC/index.php

Also really looking forward to Tavernier's "Clean Slate". Been wanting to see that Jim Thomspon adaptation for a while.

I really need to see Indigènes I think. It's on Canal Plus in the next couple of days but I'm back home now :(

Really looking forward to Lions Love next sunday. Always wanted to see one a Varda film.

Has anyone seen Terror's Advocate, the new Barbet Schroeder doc?

I highly recommend In the City of Sylvia, opening today in NYC ... a taste:

http://www.filmbrain.com/filmbrain/2008/12/test.html

I hate how "good looking" the two people at the bar are, but that's an amazing scene

well, the guy esp is a Byronic kinda archetype, but perhaps I was too smitten to mind...

Man, Olivier Assayas should lay off the techno thrillers; Boarding Gate significantly worse than the disposable demonlover.

I was thinking of starting a Philippe Garrel thread just for this (and cuz he deserves one) but for now this will have to do:

Is Garrel the 1st director do to a "radiohead" - ie. he's giving away for download one of his films:

http://www.jeromebonnetto.net/Philippepresentationlettre.htm

Wow! Thanx for this!

Finally saw Honore's Love Songs... just OK, mostly cuz the songs aren't so great. Much lusty footage of Louis Garrel tho.

Anyone seen Wild Grass (by Alain Resnais), which got the Cannes nom last year? Its finally getting a selected release over here.

Don't know if anything written on ILX has been as OTM as much as Ed's first line here.

I think you were just feeling a little hormonal 6 hours ago.

on way to Wild Grass if i can do it on 4 hrs' sleep.

falling asleep half way through wouldn't be the worst thing that could happen.

i have a french film from the new wave era which has been replaying in my head for ages and ages but i still dont know the name of it. i think it might have been a short? its about this guy in a trenchcoat and hat whos standing around in a par with a paper (i think) telling lies to girls to pick them up, which he does succesfully. i think he repeats this twice more throughout the film. can anyone ID it? i saw it so long ago but i frequently think of it. its pretty charming and funny.

Wild Grass was ok, quite funny towards the end, had a couple of the usualy very frenchy-fied tricks up its sleeve.

Looking forward to catching the NFT run of My Night with Maud next week.

I like it! Best Resnais film I've seen in 30 years.

titchy isn't that a Godard short?

Pretty sure it's this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051102/

I like it! Best Resnais film I've seen in 30 years.

My American Uncle (1980) is better

that was the one I was thinking of re WG.

Just watched Jessica Hausner's Lourdes, which gets a firm recommendation.

If nothing else, Sylvie Testud is amazing. Great performances throughout in fact, and a really beguiling mix of oddness and o_0 at what Lourdes is like.

yeah, lourdes is great; has anyone seen any other hausner? her characterisation was so delicate and subtle.

new-to-US F. Ozon Le Refuge (Hideaway) is not bad at all, best I've seen from him in 10 years.

I came to thread to rep for Classe tous risques, directed by Claude Sautet, with Lino Ventura as a tough guy on the run with two little kids in tow and a bunch of friends who are vacillating between helping him and crossing him.

which I guess various people have already repped for on other threads.

Destroy: Mathieu Kassovitz's annoying Spike Lee knockoff Cafe au lait.

I think I'm still down on Ozon after 5x2, so I'm not really willing to give the new one a chance.

Watched Rivette's Joan Of Arc biopic yesterday - all 6 hours - and loved it. But I don't need to hear about Joan Of Arc ever again.

Also, "La Nuit de Varennes" is awesome, esp. for Mastroianni as Casanova and the lead guy from Les Enfants Du Paradis (Barrault?) as the old pornographer. Loved their scenes together.

http://www.ica.org.uk/31715/Film/Hadewijch.html

Anyone seen? I know most ppl have problems w/his films, which is one reason why I'm happy to entertain the notion that he's better than Bresson, whom he is compared to.

sacrilege

crucify me :-)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/9063144/Francois-Truffauts-80th-birthday-marked-with-Google-doodle.html

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Re. Sacha Guitry: Also search Désiré and Les perles de la couronne. And Eclipse could do worse that to put out another set of Guitry films.

'Hadewijch' ws pretty fkn good. I just loved the actress and her gait is so...Bressonian I guess, weight of the world on her knees and arms.

Not sure where to begin but the story, while boringly pushing the 'provocation' button had the politics-to-religion ratio spot on -- best exemplified by the terrific scene of muslim and christiam prayer in the guy's room.

Destroy: Mathieu Kassovitz's annoying Spike Lee knockoff Cafe au lait.

Haven't seen anything M.K. has directed since La Haine, which I remember liking, but if that was so amazing why has he since made stuff nobody liked? (Halle Berry and Vin Diesel thrillerz, o boy)

see also bob swaim and la balance

i guess some ppl just have one gd film in them - or, only once find themselves in the right circumstances to make a gd film.