French films are shit. Porquoi?

which town? NYC MoMA is showing it at year-end too:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1023

I won't be in London for that one either :(

I'm gonna be in Bore-deaux so I will miss both of these ;_;

Unless the Cinema Jean Vigo is screening it! Playtime should be a Christmas tradition everywhere!

It's on in Glasgow this month as well.

Jean Eustache's shortish film The Pig on Sunday at the Lumiere. Go if I cannot.

aw :/
would love to see that

Is anyone with me that Port Of Shadows is >>>> Le Jour Se Leve??

Eustache's The Pig didn't make it to Glasgow, but tonight we had the New Yorker Films subtitled print of The Mother and the Whore, probably the very same print I last saw about ten years ago. In the intervening years I've watched an even mouldier print of Rivette's L'Amour Fou, and so this time round, I was struck by certain visual and thematic similarities between the two films - both are concerned with disintegrating love affairs, bad behaviour, jealousy, passion and all that messy stuff. The performances of Jean-Pierre Leaud, Francoise Lebrun and Bernadette Lafont - the three Ls! - are just devastating.

Tomorrow the GFT are showing Numero Uno, Eustache's first documentary feature, and then on Wednesday we get My Little Loves, the full colour fiction movie that Eustache made the year after The Mother and the Whore.

You gotta go on Wednesday.

What about Une Sale Histoire?

I'll be there!

Une Sale Histoire only played in Edinburgh, sadly.

These are all screening as part of a large French film festival that's touring the UK at the moment - the Eustache 'strand' consists of seven films in total (six of them UK premieres.) The other ones that didn't make it to Glasgow were Bad Company and Santa Claus has Blue Eyes.

last year's Cesar winner Seraphine is a digestible artist bio, esp for Yolande Moreau and the cinematography.

didn't think it was bad or anything but what's the big deal about 'the prophet'?

there seems to be this thing of anglo filmcrits unduly praising french directors that go against 'type', trascending the cold fuck outta the constraints of genre and, who'd have thought, beating the americans at their own game

heh for a certain generation of british critics, french people make much better americans than americans do

i dunno if this even did "transcend" genre! im not always against that as a concept, even. but in this case, we just have a quite detailed and mostly well-made prison/crime drama. it wasn't, in the way genre-transcenders typically do, "saying anything" about the human condition or what have you. was it? soem guy told me something about the meaning of the title before i saw it but i've forgotten what.

it means that you never can quite tell when you should pronounce the "t" at the ends of french words

did you see the movie?

Jacques Audiard - A Prophet

POLTERGAY
POLTERGAY
POLTERGAY

"saying anything" about the human condition or what have you

i think it was, specific to france, where the identities and slow integration of algerian/muslim/old school french communities is subject for debate.

POLTERGAY is the best film ever! And it is French! And has French Gay Ghosts from the Seventies!

otm

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it's not a "transcend" genre, except maybe for the subtle use of surrealism, but it's a perfect version of the genre imo
Scorsese and Taramtino will probably never offer a new perfect crime movie again, and Audiard simply takes their place with this movie.
i think it's better than the flashy,pointless and now banal shots in Goodfellas for example,it is a much more authentic effort, thats all.

trailer for godard's new(last?) 'socialisme' worth seeing, with alain badiou reprising the karina role from pierrot le fou (maybe)

alain badiou reprising the karina role

if this is true, and godard has made a elderly gay man road movie (is belmondo even alive?), than that'd be something.

sea movie, aptly

saw Chereau's Persecution, excellent work from unkempt Gallic god Romain Duris at his most Brandoesque. He and C Gainsbourgh have a nice long fucking scene, and there's an offbeat gay stalker element.

Looks forward to Varda season at BFI

Maybe something like Les Creatures?

Will finally get to see Cleo from 5 to 7

anyone see 'Mic Macs' yet?? looks awesome

i really, really didn't like Mic Macs

Has anyone here seen Agnes Varda's "Mur Murs"? What did you think about it?

Might have to see that -- looking for the underrated ones like Lions Love.

I saw Duelle yesterday. Some laughed hilariously. Can anyone tell me about the references to other films? Only if it is not tedious.

Regarding the collaboration with Lubchansky and what little I've read about it, i'd say that visual splendor was a good thing for Rivette and that it is a good thing for this visual splendor to be separated from the auteur, but maybe this is only because I only have enough imagination to believe in the duality of mind and body, which no one believes anymore, but in a way that turns everything mechanistic and not into art, which can't be one and the same, right?

Plus live subtitles / translations, like at the United Nations.

Claude Chabrol RIP.

he was one of the greatest.

first Rhomer and now Chabrol -> Rivette and Godard - take care!

Oh no! One of my favorites. NO.

Have liked a few of his films, but never really understood claims on greatness.

siding with morbs on this one

crazy talk^

The Butcher could easily be a great Hitchcock film, for example.

there's an awful lot of good Hitchcock imitators tho who don't get the same regard.

I like the Chabrol films I know plenty, but he isn't very auteur-y imo and this might be a reason to not regard him as a "great" whatever that's all about

first of all - he is more than hitch imitator.

2nd - if only "original" directors would be regarded as great - the list will be shortened to a maximum 10 persons.

i like 'le boucher' best -- i haven't seen every last one, obviously, but then i haven't felt compelled to.

Crazy talk, indeed. When Chabrol was "on" as a director - which was most of his career in my opinion and I've watched just about any Chabrol I could get my hands on, legally and illegally - when you felt he was digging his material then the results were some remarkable films. "Nada" or "The Unfaithful Wife" or "La Ceremonie", for example, are the work of a master filmmaker - hence a "great". And much more than a Hitchcock imitator.

horshima mon amoour

not a french film per se, but i just watched Jessica Hausner's Lourdes.

wow, one of the best things ive seen lately.

french film festival this week... what should I see

3 p'tits cochons (3 Little Pigs)
DIRECTED BY Patrick Huard
Québec | 2008 | 124 mn

L'Arnacœur (Heartbreaker)
DIRECTED BY Pascal Chaumeil
France | 2010 | 105 mn

L'armée du crime (The Army of Crime)
DIRECTED BY Robert Guédiguian
France | 2009 | 139 mn

Barbe bleue (Bluebeard)
DIRECTED BY Catherine Breillat
France | 2009 | 139 mn

Un capitalisme sentimental (A Sentimental Capitalism)
DIRECTED BY Olivier Asselin
Québec | 2008 | 92 mn

Les doigts croches (Sticky Fingers)
DIRECTED BY Ken Scott
Québec | 2009 | 108 mn

Gainsbourg, vie héroïque (Gainsbourg)
DIRECTED BY Joan Sfar
France | 2010 | 135 mn

Les herbes folles (Wild Grass)
DIRECTED BY Alain Resnais
France | 2009 | 104 mn

Hitler à Hollywood (Hitler in Hollywood)
DIRECTED BY Frédéric Sojcher
France- Belgium | 2010 | 95 mn

Un homme qui crie (A screaming Man)
DIRECTED BY Mahamat Saleh Haroun
France - Belgium - Chad | 2010 | 80 mn

Il a suffi que Maman s'en aille (When Mother went away)
DIRECTED BY René Féret
France | 2007 | 90 mn

Illégal
DIRECTED BY Olivier Masset-Depasse
France - Belgium - Luxemburg | 2010 | 95 mn

Liberté (Korkoro)
DIRECTED BY Tony Gatlif
France | 2010 | 111 mn

Maman est chez le coiffeur (Mommy's at the Hairdresser)
DIRECTED BY Léa Pool
Québec| 2008 | 97 mn

Orpailleur (Galimpeiro)
DIRECTED BY Marc Barrat
France | 2010 | 90 mn

Le petit Nicolas (Little Nicolas)
DIRECTED BY Laurent Tirard
France | 2010 | 90 mn

Potiche
DIRECTED BY François Ozon
France | 2010 | 110 mn

La rafle (The Round-up)
DIRECTED BY Rose Bosch
France | 2010 | 115 mn

I'm thinking the breillat maybe?

c'mon where are the cinemaphiliacs

L'Arnacœur - great pun btw.

idgi