― Ed (dali), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:07 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:08 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:12 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:13 (10 years ago) Permalink
La Regle Du JeuThree Colours BlueL'Apartement
Destroy:
Last Year at Marienbad
― bert, Monday, 24 February 2003 12:50 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:54 (10 years ago) Permalink
destroy: films in which people sit around and smoke gitanes self-importantly (apart from A Bout De Souffle), lush historical dramas with no plot (e.g. that one about the Sun King's composer), etc.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:57 (10 years ago) Permalink
Which of the several thousand do you mean?
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
Search
Les Enfants du ParadisDelicatessanJean de FlorettesManon des SourcesL'AdolescenteAnd God Created Woman
― Lara (Lara), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:06 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Skottie, Monday, 24 February 2003 13:07 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:10 (10 years ago) Permalink
― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:13 (10 years ago) Permalink
Search: Savage Nights, Diva, The Horseman on the RoofDestroy: The Hairdresser's Husband (or Wife, whatever, it was wretched)
Amateurist, which is your favorite Tati? I like Playtime.
― felicity (felicity), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:18 (10 years ago) Permalink
― felicity (felicity), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:19 (10 years ago) Permalink
― gareth (gareth), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:20 (10 years ago) Permalink
― felicity (felicity), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:21 (10 years ago) Permalink
I like everything Tati. I didn't like Traffic as much as the others but then I saw it on an itsy bitsy TV so who knows? Have you seen his last, Parade?
Buñuel is Spanish but his last few films were made in France. Likewise Max Ophüls is Austrian but his last few (brilliant) films were made in France.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:23 (10 years ago) Permalink
― felicity (felicity), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:24 (10 years ago) Permalink
― felicity (felicity), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:28 (10 years ago) Permalink
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:31 (10 years ago) Permalink
gainsburg-je t'aime.assayas-l'eau froide.truffaut-400 coupsvigo-zero en conduit.godard-pierrot le fou
but there's so much stuff....
destroy amelie.
and, yes, a good commercial release Vidocq. You wouldn't expect your regular XIXth century immortal french alchemist performing matrix style kung fu moves that good...
― francesco, Monday, 24 February 2003 13:31 (10 years ago) Permalink
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:32 (10 years ago) Permalink
Parade is a very odd film--the oddest I know. It's charming but very demaning in its own way (not unlike Playtime). You have to see it once, then see it again with suitably revised expectations.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:33 (10 years ago) Permalink
― francesco, Monday, 24 February 2003 13:33 (10 years ago) Permalink
likewise - whats to dislike about La Haine?
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:34 (10 years ago) Permalink
Also terrible: Claude Lelouch. He gets a pass for inventing the, er, Lelouch, though.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:35 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:36 (10 years ago) Permalink
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:38 (10 years ago) Permalink
― francesco, Monday, 24 February 2003 13:38 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:39 (10 years ago) Permalink
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:39 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:45 (10 years ago) Permalink
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train is pretty good.
― hstencil, Monday, 24 February 2003 14:38 (10 years ago) Permalink
as is "The Self Made Hero"
"Amelie" proves you can't base an entire film out of some attractive bird staring doe-eyed at the camera.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 24 February 2003 15:46 (10 years ago) Permalink
No Ally on this thread yet?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 February 2003 16:12 (10 years ago) Permalink
DelicatessenLe Jour Du Fete (My favorite Tati)La Vaccance de M. HulotLa HaineMilou en MaiClubbed to DeathDoberman
DestroyAmelie (or rather just feh)
Can anyone tell me what the film is that features Gerard Depardieu as a gay burglar who mugs a couple and ensnares them into his life of crime and buggery?
― Ed (dali), Monday, 24 February 2003 16:26 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 February 2003 16:35 (10 years ago) Permalink
And I personally could never stand Jacques Tati.
But that said, search away for Bande apart (Band of OUtsiders), Le Mépris (Contempt), Truffaut's Doinel movies, anything by Renoir (especially Grand Illusion + Rules of the Game), Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, errr. Lots more.
For more recent stuff I highly stuff by Ozon (Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes, Sous le sable--and 8 femmes is sort of a treat). Also Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep, one of my favourite movies and sadly underseen.
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:14 (10 years ago) Permalink
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:16 (10 years ago) Permalink
I like 'a woman is a woman' a lot, too.
I like 'amelie'.
'alphaville'!
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:19 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:21 (10 years ago) Permalink
DestroyLuc Besson's English Films
― No One (SiggyBaby), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:23 (10 years ago) Permalink
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:48 (10 years ago) Permalink
― gareth (gareth), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:53 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:54 (10 years ago) Permalink
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:28 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:29 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:30 (10 years ago) Permalink
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..
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 19 May 2007 19:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
'mon oncle american' ftw
― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 19 May 2007 19:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 21 May 2007 02:05 (5 years ago) Permalink
err, "thinking the same thing"...
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Monday, 21 May 2007 02:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
will anyone ever release Malle's 'The Fire Within' (Feu Follet) on DVD? i consider my favorite movie i've never seen.
― poortheatre, Monday, 21 May 2007 05:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
wait - it's already on DVD with English subs - part of the Louis Malle collection V.1 put out by Optimum earlier this year...
― Jeff LeVine, Monday, 21 May 2007 06:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
I just saw Mon Oncle for the first time a few weeks ago. What a treat.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 May 2007 09:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
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...
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
Just saw Army of Shadows -- the pace dawdles, but the last 30 minutes are pretty devastating.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
"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.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 9 September 2007 10:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 :(
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 9 September 2007 12:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
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?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 31 May 2008 15:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
I highly recommend In the City of Sylvia, opening today in NYC ... a taste:
http://www.filmbrain.com/filmbrain/2008/12/test.html
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 12 December 2008 16:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
I hate how "good looking" the two people at the bar are, but that's an amazing scene
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 December 2008 22:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
well, the guy esp is a Byronic kinda archetype, but perhaps I was too smitten to mind...
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 12 December 2008 22:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
Man, Olivier Assayas should lay off the techno thrillers; Boarding Gate significantly worse than the disposable demonlover.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 9 January 2009 23:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
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
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 15 January 2009 09:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
Wow! Thanx for this!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 15 January 2009 09:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
Finally saw Honore's Love Songs... just OK, mostly cuz the songs aren't so great. Much lusty footage of Louis Garrel tho.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
Anyone seen Wild Grass (by Alain Resnais), which got the Cannes nom last year? Its finally getting a selected release over here.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 11:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Don't know if anything written on ILX has been as OTM as much as Ed's first line here.
― carpe carp (S-), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 11:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think you were just feeling a little hormonal 6 hours ago.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
on way to Wild Grass if i can do it on 4 hrs' sleep.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 July 2010 21:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
falling asleep half way through wouldn't be the worst thing that could happen.
― baby i know that you think i'm just a lion (schlump), Thursday, 29 July 2010 22:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 29 July 2010 23:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 30 July 2010 10:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
I like it! Best Resnais film I've seen in 30 years.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 July 2010 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
titchy isn't that a Godard short?
― I like tv random anything (corey), Friday, 30 July 2010 15:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pretty sure it's this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051102/
― I like tv random anything (corey), Friday, 30 July 2010 15:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
My American Uncle (1980) is better
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 30 July 2010 15:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
that was the one I was thinking of re WG.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 July 2010 16:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Just watched Jessica Hausner's Lourdes, which gets a firm recommendation.
― Bill A, Saturday, 31 July 2010 21:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Bill A, Saturday, 31 July 2010 21:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, lourdes is great; has anyone seen any other hausner? her characterisation was so delicate and subtle.
― baby i know that you think i'm just a lion (schlump), Saturday, 31 July 2010 22:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
new-to-US F. Ozon Le Refuge (Hideaway) is not bad at all, best I've seen from him in 10 years.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 13:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Redd Cadillac & A Blecch Moustache (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
which I guess various people have already repped for on other threads.
― Redd Cadillac & A Blecch Moustache (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
Destroy: Mathieu Kassovitz's annoying Spike Lee knockoff Cafe au lait.
― Redd Cadillac & A Blecch Moustache (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 15:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think I'm still down on Ozon after 5x2, so I'm not really willing to give the new one a chance.
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 16:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― Zooster vs. The Slapp (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 16:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
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.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 5 February 2012 12:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
sacrilege
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 February 2012 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
crucify me :-)
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 5 February 2012 20:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/9063144/Francois-Truffauts-80th-birthday-marked-with-Google-doodle.html
― koogs, Monday, 6 February 2012 12:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
ihttp://frenchfilms.topcities.com/1936_Un_roman_d_un_tricheur.jpg― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, February 3, 2005 2:33 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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.
― Seraphim? I don't even know him! (j.lu), Monday, 6 February 2012 19:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
'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.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
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)
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
should i revisit 'betty blue'? it's been over a decade and i barely remember anything beyond the opening scene and the song they play over the credits.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
a lot of directors begin their careers with lean, raw, kinetic thrillers that more or less beat the audience into submission. films with something to prove. few directors, however, keep making those sorts of films. most graduate quickly to more ambitious/mainstream/thoughtful fare, often with disappointing results.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:58 (1 year ago) Permalink