― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (twenty-one years ago) link
― francesco, Monday, 24 February 2003 13:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
likewise - whats to dislike about La Haine?
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also terrible: Claude Lelouch. He gets a pass for inventing the, er, Lelouch, though.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― francesco, Monday, 24 February 2003 13:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train is pretty good.
― hstencil, Monday, 24 February 2003 14:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (twenty-one years ago) link
No Ally on this thread yet?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 February 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 February 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
I like 'a woman is a woman' a lot, too.
I like 'amelie'.
'alphaville'!
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
DestroyLuc Besson's English Films
― No One (SiggyBaby), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
ahem.
Search : anything by Bertrand Tavernier.
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
Resnais - now that's pretentious artsy fartsy craft. And I do lurve it so.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
Vive la France!
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 21:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (twenty-one years ago) link
::shivers, twitches, grinds teeth::
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 24 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Wintermute (Wintermute), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 24 February 2003 22:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Moreau! Belmondo! Had no idea these two made a Brook/Duras film in 1960.
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/moderato-cantabile
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 October 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
David Ehrenstein on Duras:
http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/the-films-of-marguerite-duras
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 October 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
can someone tell me how is Naked Childhood by Maurice Pialat (his debut).
seen lot's of praise , but almost no "official" Reviews
― nostormo, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
it was produced by truffaut, and has things in common w/ 400 blows. there is some tough to watch animal cruelty, and some nakedly human performances that also might make you want to look away, if you weren't so transfixed by the truth of the acting. it is one of the great directorial debuts, certainly as good as anything else by Pialat (which is high praise imho)
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
great. i will watch!
― nostormo, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
thnx
ILX search tells me i put it on my "best rep watches" for 2004, so that's the best i can do.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
oh cool Ehrenstein still writes besides trolling comments sections.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Jean Grémillon retro in NYC
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2014/11/21/detail/jean-grmillon/
Since the only ones that seem "available" digitally are Lumiere d'été, Remorques and Le ciel est à vous, another argument for quitting my job to go to rep screenings.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
anyone seen anything here? new Techine and Honore....
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2015
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
well Melvil Poupaud AND Anders Danielsen Lie are in Fidelio, l'odyssée d'Alice, so that's double-stud action...
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
I really liked Outside Satan. Quiet, contemplative violence, beautifully shot.
― Dave fischer, Friday, 13 February 2015 05:10 (nine years ago) link
i'm going to ask here about the 1951 a/g classic VENOM AND ETERNITY?
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2015#showing-44511
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t05VTBTAtUQ
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 06:12 (eight years ago) link
so the Pagnol trilogy from the '30s, what of it? Nick Pinkerton:
https://www.artforum.com/film/id=65686
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link
I like. Didn't someone like Orson Welles say Raimu was his favorite actor or the world's best actor or something to that effect?
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 January 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
Wiki sez "was considered the ultimate actor by luminaries such as Alec Guinness, Marlene Dietrich, and Orson Welles."
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
My partner's french and this x-mas her brother gave me a buncha French popular classics: Yves Robert, "La Traversée De Paris" with Gabin and Bouvril, Coluche, a Lelouche movie with Lino Ventura and Jacques Brel, a buncha Louis de Funès movies that are supposedly much better than the Gendarme stuff. It's interesting how these mainstream things are much more obscure outside France than Rivette or Eustache even (Lelouche exempted - I gather we're not supposed to like him?).
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 6 January 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link
I love some Lelouche and among my film loving friends in France - all in their late 20s-late 30s - his stuff is pretty much embraced. The one your partner got is fun - the pairing of Ventura and Brel never fails (see "L'Emmerdeur").
Actually have "La Traversée De Paris" lined up to watch. I haven't seen Bourvil in anything other than "Le Cercle Rouge" so seeing him do his thing as a comedian will probably be a little jarring at first.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 6 January 2017 14:33 (seven years ago) link
This looks great:
https://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=20802
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 January 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link
just a few days ago I was nearly going to suggest to my gf we watch "Going Places" ('74 Bertrand blier) cuz I knew it was expiring from Netflix and that it was French and she knows a bit of the language -- dodged a bullet there lmao, its not horror but it is like extreme nasty French misogyny/nihilism. its hard to be convincing and be like I swear I had no idea this was the subject matter! even when that is 100% true ~― johnny crunch, Wednesday, September 30, 2015 12:08 PM
Rewatched this week (remembering hardly anything from decades back) and yeah this would never be distributed today...
But surely it is meant as a commentary on what we now call toxic masculinity? Or was Jeanne Moreau just a witting accomplice to misogyny?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 May 2019 02:07 (five years ago) link
Finally watching the Pagnol Marseille trilogy on CC. Raimu reminds me of Gleason and Zero Mostel; I wonder if they saw his work.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
Gigi. No, wait...― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, February 24, 2003 11:35 AM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, February 24, 2003 11:35 AM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Search Gigi (Audry, 1949).
Urgent and key: Search Razzia Sur La Chnouf (Decoin, 1955; just released in a Region A Blu-ray by Kino Lorber)
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
also, the (first) US condensation of the Pagnol trilogy was directed by James Whale and written by Preston Sturges :o
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/indochina-song
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
Also, xpost, what?
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
👍👍👍
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link