Around the same time, Altman did it with "To Hell with Love" in Short Cuts.
― your way better (Eazy), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
how totally weird this thread exists and i see it - i watched blue for the 2nd time yesterday, pretty much depriving myself the next day (today) of a couple hours sleep so i could watch it continuously. i loved the movie the first time and really came to appreciate it this viewing. i really thinks its mostly for reasons of subject matter, whereas i find white/red to be interesting stories; there was just something so utterly ridiculous yet so, so, so believably about juliette binoche's performance as a woman who grieves in all the wrong ways. i'm honestly obsessive enough that i've rewound to specific points of the movie in which she cuts a person off squarely with a solid, curt "No". Jesus.
― kelpolaris, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
After I saw Blue last month, I was thinking about how its ending would seem to be the basis for similar scenes in Donnie Darko ("Mad World")
one of the things I liked about donnie darko was the clear nod to blue
according to imdb blue and short cuts screened at the venice film festival in '93, though blue was shown earlier in jan at the warsaw film festival
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
had no memory of red bowling-ball shot
(or much else)
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
I like all three scenes a lot. Is there anything that predates Blue in that vein, or is it the blueprint?
My question, a few posts above. I found something earlier that is very similar; there's a sequence in Welcome to L.A. where you go from character to character while one of Richard Baskin's (horrible) songs plays. Each character's turn ends with him or her staring directly at the camera. I doubt very much that Kieslowski would have been influenced by Welcome to L.A., but I can definitely imagine P.T. Anderson having seen it.
― clemenza, Monday, 27 August 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
do you have to watch these in order?
― 乒乓, Saturday, 8 December 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
im currently reading the wikipedia plot synopsis for three colours blue and i cant remember if i have seen it
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Saturday, 8 December 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
You don't need to see them in order.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Saturday, 8 December 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
kieslowski seems so early 90s
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Saturday, 8 December 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
he even died in 1996 just to enhance the feeling
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Saturday, 8 December 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
ha hahe is the best thougheven just thinking about kieslowski films is nicewatch them in order if you can, 乒乓, there are some echoes between that would make sense in any order but which have some kinda sequential pay-off imo
― ~bacon trailblazer~ (schlump), Saturday, 8 December 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
blue and white are probably interchangeable but red's best last
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
You had to be lolninteen in 1994 to understand the impact of Red and Pulp Fiction in the same season.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
stephen king is writing a 1000p speculative-historical novel about what would have happened if red won the palme in 94
― ~bacon trailblazer~ (schlump), Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
things to do in zurich when you're disassociated
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
Jean-Louis Trintignat plays a Rotter for the ages
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
still all about white. "i'm afraid the office may be bugged." "by whom?" "who knows?"
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
"buy a car! a new tv!" "what for? i never watch it. always the same crap. or... i could bury the money. put it in a little jar." "sure!" "that would be nice."
but you're a russophile -- how can you love a Polish movie
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno if "phile"'s the right suffix really
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
or do you gobble Polish movies as if they were Polish officers and you were the Red Army
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
actually one of the reasons i dig the movie so much is how 90s-ex-eastern-bloc it is, the way karol attains equality w his estranged french wife by becoming a kinda sleazy capitalist whose actual business is never concretely explained
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
looks like I'll be seeing Red first
― 乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
I've always liked books that start at the end though
I think you should watch them in order
― iatee, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
but it wouldn't make a huge difference
film forum isn't showing the other two
― 乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
o
― iatee, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
are they on netflix streaming
blue would prob be really really gorgeous in a theatre now that i think about it
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
perhaps
I think I'll just time machine myself back and watch them before I watch Red in a few days
― 乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
it's not like there is some spoiler that ruins the other movies or anything
― iatee, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
okay cool just got back, blue was a lil' better than white can't wait for Red now
― 乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
I also made it so that romney won, has it worked yet
― 乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
film forum is now only showing mormon movies so you tell me
― iatee, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
damn ... a bridge too far
brb
― 乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
okay cool I changed it back everything should be cool now
I had forgotten that Emannuelle Riva is in Red (rewatched a few months ago)
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 December 2012 06:37 (eleven years ago) link
She plays Juliette Binoche's mother in BLUE.
Riva and Tringtignant talk about working with Kieslowski and Haneke here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/nov/08/emmanuelle-riva-amour-michael-haneke
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, December 8, 2012 8:43 PM (2 days ago)
saw it twice during its original run, it is. also incredible - the sound design. car crash sounds very real, then when the teen runs towards the accident and throws aside his skateboard, you can faintly hear it land in the field.
sometimes I suspect if someone else pulled half the stuff kieslowski does it would be unbearable but he's so damn good, who cares?
― CGI fridays (Edward III), Monday, 10 December 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
irene jacob is so pretty u_u
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
I'm no authority on such things but in '94 she was the Most Beautiful Woman in the World.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
no doubt
also the cinematography, the motion of the camera, simply outrageous
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
This refers back to something I posted about twice last year: the scene near the end in Blue where a song links all the characters and subplots together at a critical moment. I wrote at the time that I'd seen this device used in Donnie Darko, Magnolia, and Blue; I later added Alan Rudolph's Welcome to L.A. I found an earlier use tonight: Demy's The Young Girls of Rochefort. It's like Magnolia in that the characters are actually singing; in the other three films the music is background. My friend, who immediately shoots down every theory I have linking certain disparate films together, assures me that this is probably a very common device used in lots of musicals from the '30s and '40s. But she couldn't name any offhand.
― clemenza, Monday, 1 July 2013 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
Oh god I just saw a 35mm screening of Blue (whilst high and devouring Dr. Pepper and popcorn that I snuck in) and I think I had a religious experience. What a fucking masterful film!
― queen bey backers (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 22 December 2013 03:53 (ten years ago) link
http://strangewood.tumblr.com/post/90098472452/krzysztof-kieslowski-photographed-by-piotr-jaxa
― 龜, Friday, 27 June 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link
what an artistically intimidating assignment
― schlump, Friday, 27 June 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
I guess I should point out that I was supposed to watch Blue at AMC Cocowalk at 10:05 in February '94 but arrived late; instead, my friend and I went to the 10:35 showing of Reality Bites.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 June 2014 23:27 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, didn't get a lot out of A Short Film About Killing. Garishly-toned art-splatter film for a while, then it's Dead Man Walking. I suppose it's meant as a carefully constructed test for how one feels about capital punishment. Make the killer as loathsome as can be (he's even ready to hijack his mom's grave), leave you to gauge your reaction when he's executed.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 02:25 (ten years ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, December 8, 2012
laughed at this now
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 July 2014 12:34 (ten years ago) link