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Luc Besson's English Films

― No One (SiggyBaby), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, "Chloe in the Afternoon," Eric Rohmer.

― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

amelie is the best film i have never seen

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

What else have you seen Gareth?

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

City of Lost Children is one of my favorite films ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

search: Last Year at Marienbad! (bert you are wrong! - even if it was bad, you still get to watch Delphine Seyrig walking around Austrian Gardens - mmmm)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

most underrated French film: Un Homme et une Femme

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

anyone seen Irreversible yet?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:36 (twenty-three years ago)

TV5 Latin america is goin to have a Tati special on march :-)

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Some French films I love:

Pretty much anything by Jean Renoir, Marcel Carne or written by Jacques Prevert or starring Jean Gabin. Favourite example of these classics: La Grande Illusion. Le Jour Se Leve and Quai Des Brumes and Pepe Le Moko need mentioning too.

Vigo's L'Atalante and Zero de Conduite.

all Godard's early films, especially those with Anna Karina. I even like most of his later ones.

Delicatessen and City Of Lost Children

Most of Truffaut's. Celine And Julie Go Boating, too.

Cyrano de Bergerac was great.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Truffaut is the king, particularly the first 4 Antoine Doinel ones (L'amour en fuite was disappointing). I like early Godard, esp. the Anna Karina ones. Masculin Feminin is good too, but I hate "week-end". Some Louis Malle, "Souffle au coeur", "Au revoir les enfants" and "Zazie dans le metro". "Le boucher" and "les biches" by Chabrol. The original "Cat People".

French film is way up its own arse these days, although I loved "La haine" and thought "Amelie" was gneuinely charming.

Special loathing for Eric Rohmer and Last year at Marienbad.

― Tag (Tag), Monday, 24 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Seconded: Vigo's L'Atalante, Tati's Playtime (must be seen in the theater), Eustache's La Maman et la Putain, Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad.

Hiroshima Mon Amour as well, surely. Godard, all the obvious ones. Sadly I haven't yet explored any of his 80's work. Nouvelle Vague was good though. Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud is good. I also really enjoyed Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse, though I can see why others may not.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Re. '80s Godard: see First Name: Carmen and Hail Mary for starters.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy : Jean-Luc Godard!
::jumps up and down, screaming in falsetto, spitting::
destroy! DESTROY!! PRETENTIOUS ARTSY-FARTSY CRAP!!! DESTROYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!

ahem.

Search : anything by Bertrand Tavernier.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

How are Breathless and Masucline-Feminine "pretentious artsy fartsy crap" (wonderful criticism, btw)? They're just cute little boy-meets-girls stories.

Resnais - now that's pretentious artsy fartsy craft. And I do lurve it so.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Search PRETENTIOUS ARTSY-FARTSY CRAP

Vive la France!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:58 (twenty-three years ago)

SANS SOLEIL
LA JETEE

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll second (third, first, whatever) these:

Cocteau - Testament of Orpheus, Beauty & Beast, Blood of Poet, etc.
Renoir - Day in the Country, Grand Illusion, etc.
Resnais - Last Year at Marienbad, Hiroshima Mon Amour
Carne - Children of Paradise
Goddard - Weekend, Alphaville
Jeunet

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr. D, I'll give you Breathless, but what about Week-End and Le Mepris... ewww...

::shivers, twitches, grinds teeth::

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Le Mepris showcases the worst (and a bit of the best) of early Godard methinks. My favorites of his early films: Breathless, Vivre sa vie, Pierrot le fou, Week End, La Chinoise.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Weekend is a scream! You have no sense of humor!

What about the part where the workers eat the sandwich and talk about Marxism? It's gobs of fun!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Godard - Une femme est une femme does it for me.

I guess I could include the Three Colours trilogy even though they were directed by a Pole - Red and White are my favourites. La Double vie de Veronique too.

For more French Polish, Polanski's "The tenant" is an oft forgotten piece of insane genius.

― Tag (Tag), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Weekend? Fun? It's just plain boring. It's like Buckaroo Baazai with politics instead of science fiction.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Buckaroo Banzai is boring? I love that movie!

― hstencil, Monday, 24 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Then go see Weekend.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Le Mépris is terrific, if a bit hard to watch, especially with a significant other present.

― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

was man bites dog belgian? i'm thinking yes...

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So what - Belgians speak French too! Search Chantal Akerman!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

That's the spirit! Search Rosetta and Le Fils.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Akerman's 'Jeanne Dielman' is my favorite film that I don't ever want to sit through again. I love it, but 3 cuts over 3 hours is brutal.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I've seen it three times and I was never angry with it. It means a bit more once you know what's coming.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I've seen it twice and I was just as riveted the second time.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw it twice in two days for a class. it was a bit much. However it's been about 6 years, and I just saw a VHS copy for rent at Cinefile...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Search Jean Giraud's Les Maîtres du temps, my favourite non-Japanese (or rather non-Miyazaki) animation feature.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh well, hell, I would never want to watch it twice in two days! Yes, that would be tough.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

and just so you folks don't think I'm dissing on Jeanne Dielman, I actually emailed the head of Criterion asking whether they might ever release it on DVD! He said it was a good idea ("I'd love to do that one"), and that he'd look into it (nb - that was almost 2 years ago).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

You pretty much can't go wrong with what Criterion has released: Faves: Le Million, Le Trou, Band Of Outsiders, Vagabond, Children Of Paradise, Wages Of Fear

Also search: Subway and the incredibly silly but fun guilty-pleasure Brotherhood Of The Wolf

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc, even though the director was Danish.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

La fille sur le Pont, Vivre sa vie...

There's this one called Peppermint Soda that looks very good but I haven't rented it yet.

― Genevieve, Monday, 24 February 2003 23:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I wouldn't really want to see Dielman again. But it was great watching it once. I won't say any more.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:14 (twenty-three years ago)

More search: Jules and Jim, Shoot the Piano Player, Small Change, La Lectrice

hstencil: We have never discussed The Hairdresser's Husband, but we can.

slutsky: Hi! I knew someone of that name once, on a faraway island . . .

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

that wouldn't be the island of montreal you're talking about, would it?

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

haha no, but you do have a wonderful namesake.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Good to know.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Pas l'ile de France?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I know 0.001 about French cinema, and haven't seen other Rohmer, but I think Pauline at the Beach is worth seeing once.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:59 (twenty-three years ago)

French films are hella overrated but Je t'aime Je t'aime (Resnais again) isn't bad. Let's watch Max, Mon Amour (Oshima). Time Out was a dud out of proportion to its good press.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 09:38 (twenty-three years ago)

fave godard: vivre sa vie, bande a part. hate: weekend (would rather have my eyes pecked out by pigeons than watch that again.)
second: le grand illusion, le jour se leve. also love: le souffle au couer, les valseuses, alice et martin, jeux interdits, le rayon vert. also, am i alone in finding amelie not just great, but also incredibly dark and depressing (tho the ending is happy i guess)? surely you can't hate something because of the arrangement of features on someone's face? i think her performance is wonderful.

― jeanne picot (jeanne picot), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck yes, "la lectrice", a wonderful thing. And Peppermint Soda is great, Genevieve.

Other gems I've remembered - I loved "les amants du pont neuf", (although Carax's "Polo X" is in my top ten worst films ever made). "la petite voleuse" (wonderful Charlotte G), "l'appartement"....

I remember "le grand chemin" being a kind of French "My life as a dog" but I was young and rose-tintedly Francophilic when I saw it so I could be wrong.

― Tag (Tag), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 20:35 (twenty-three years ago)

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― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2020 20:21 (six years ago)

Also, xpost, what?

― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2020 20:22 (six years ago)

three months pass...

All seven episodes of Pialat's 1971 TV series The House in the Woods have now been uploaded to YT, with English subs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1aHhIVFRt8&list=PLh06URz4IJQ4iUTdz7ECikWiRvfLaeCXc&fbclid=IwAR2JjPTudCJuabeLkOKV5OBjLVoLQKWHC5OIkJzQ890BzUTbQ3aUY4z6COI

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 15:49 (five years ago)

👍👍👍

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 15:57 (five years ago)

four years pass...

How bad is Lelouch, actually? I've long known he's To Avoid, but have followed those instructions and so cannot actually say...

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 6 May 2025 12:26 (one year ago)

His version of Les Miserables isn't bad from what I remember 25 years ago.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 May 2025 12:58 (one year ago)

Guess I'll find out, got roped into recording a podcast on Les Uns Et Les Autres.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 6 May 2025 14:10 (one year ago)

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