Last (x) movies you saw

I watched Breathless a few weeks ago and had a hard time getting past how amazingly ugly Belmondo was. He looked like Rondo Hatton, but at least Hatton had acromegaly as an excuse.

― WilliamC, Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:31 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's interesting though. my grandfather was a really big raymond chandler fan, real big fan of humphrey bogart. he'd always say he couldn't figure out what it was about bogart - like, funny voice, peculiar looking compared to some of his peers. it's like being the same distance away from a regular singing voice that billie holiday was - just like this strange other tangent. belmondo's remarkable looking. i never saw that melville movie in which he's a priest but the images are so arresting, he really pops:

http://dryden.eastmanhouse.org/media/leonpri.jpg

nb upon googling i am compelled to disagree way more aggressively with your original premise

Belmondo is ugly-beautiful i.e. classic film face

Besides Diary of a Country Priest L'Argent was the only Bresson available on videotape in the nineties, so my regard is tinged by the fact that it was the second I saw...and now it's hard to find on DVD.

gonna see Rabbi's Cat tonight, pretty psyched

― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, December 11, 2012 12:55 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh man jealous!!!

it's at IFC jon! i can get you a ticket sometime if you wanna.

Breathless is important and fun.

sunset boulevard

my fav thing about 'mondo is that when he got old he turned into a cheesy french george hamilton

alfred otm about belmondo, in some shots he's absolutely beautiful and in others he looks like a gargoyle

but yeah, diving into the history of french new wave in film school, i was pretty much convinced that france was a land where impossibly beautiful women routinely hooked up with garden gnomes.

im still convinced of that tbh

maybe it's time for me to finally return to my ancestral homeland

http://www.ladysenea.com/images/plop/.jeanne_moreau_dans_le_mythique_jules_et_jim_reference_m.jpg

lol

delon is the necessary counterpart to belmondo, impossible beauty vs bordelais rough trade

belmondo won his three official fights according to wikipeda but i guess he lost enough other ones

I would so do Belmondo but he probably reeks of Gauloises.

I would so do Belmondo and he probably reeks of Gauloises.

I would so do Belmondo; he probably reeks of Gauloises.

I should add that I really enjoyed Breathless and Belmondo is a striking screen presence -- I agree with "ugly-beautiful" as Alfred put it. I just saw the ugly more than the beautiful.

it's at IFC jon! i can get you a ticket sometime if you wanna.

― THE NATIONS YOUTH DANCED TO THE MACARANA (innocent) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, December 11, 2012 6:25 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

will get at u!

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/belle_laide

the first result for 'beau laid' = belmondo

delon is the necessary counterpart to belmondo, impossible beauty vs bordelais roug

Delon's type is much closer to rough trade in my experience

yeah but have you skulked around the docks of bordeaux on a misty november evening in 1954?

yeah, delon seems more like he would knife you unsuspectingly. belmondo seems like he would prattle on about his life and hopes and dreams post-fuck until you just want him to leave.

belmondo would maybe be more of a card shark

Belmondo would ask you for a ride, let you blow him, ask that you leave him on a corner, and, as you drive away, you notice he's stolen your cigarettes.

Shit -- I just wrote a Choose Your Own Adventure.

its cool how when french people turn 60 they decide to just stand around in thongs for the rest of their days and turn into leather couches

http://i.imgur.com/GyNUO.jpg

Do you let Delon knife you in the back? Turn to pg. 55

Do you allow Belmondo to blow you? Turn to pg. 3.

"DATING A PETTY HOOD"

btw I never got over those faggoty sandals Jim wore to the beach.

trouble with this is though there are probably a thousand belmondos, delon is nonpareil, so an ersatz delon would no more substitute than doug liman would for godard

are you straight?

yes, but i'd probably have sex with belmondo

yeah but i think hypothetical rough trade belmondo is straight no? xp

Delon tends to be the kind of guy Straight Guys Would Fuck.

whereas as the kind of guy who Gay Guys Would Fuck is Jeanne Moreau.

bel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMI-Cr-GbrA

jeanne moreau is amazing

especially in diary of a chambermaid

not a fan of Chambermaid but can appreciate what Bunuel saw in her stride.

the best post-1950s bunuel

whoa whoa -- better than El, Robinson Crusoe, Nazarin, Viridiana, The Exterminating Angel, Belle de Jour, The Discreet Charm --

my fingers hurt

anyway Jean Renoir made a proto-Bunuelian Diary of a Chambermaid in the forties

just uncontaminated social violence and trashing of la france profonde ruritanian pieties

nazarin was 50s iirc? viridiana.....maybe, i love viridiana though i think he was better with something more conventional and a little less archetypal to work against

his colour films are all overlit and slightly shonky, chamberbaid is tenebrist ether, lizardy camerawork, the spectre of poujadism lurking like nothing before seul contre tous

I guess this is the point where I shamefully admit that I have never seen a full length Bunuel film.

I mean, read enough to know that his films are something that I could either very easily love or very easily hate, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I will cut anyone who doesn't love Bunuel.

the last movie i saw that was really worth shit was EL SUR (erice, 1983)

otherwise some passable stuff, carax, james benning, kurt kren, ali which i preferred first time, con air, inside man was on tv the other day