― 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
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:36 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:01 (10 years ago) Permalink
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 (10 years ago) Permalink
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 (10 years ago) Permalink
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 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:09 (10 years ago) Permalink
ahem.
Search : anything by Bertrand Tavernier.
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:43 (10 years ago) Permalink
Resnais - now that's pretentious artsy fartsy craft. And I do lurve it so.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:50 (10 years ago) Permalink
Vive la France!
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:58 (10 years ago) Permalink
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:01 (10 years ago) Permalink
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 AmourCarne - Children of ParadiseGoddard - Weekend, AlphavilleJeunet
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:13 (10 years ago) Permalink
::shivers, twitches, grinds teeth::
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:17 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:21 (10 years ago) Permalink
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 (10 years ago) Permalink
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 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:35 (10 years ago) Permalink
― hstencil, Monday, 24 February 2003 22:36 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:36 (10 years ago) Permalink
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:52 (10 years ago) Permalink
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:00 (10 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