loved News From Home
all those subway scenes and shots of wide 70s cars on 10th Avenue and cross streets looking out on the Hudson River
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 March 2019 01:34 (five years ago) link
wasn’t sure what to make of Hotel Monterey, although I did like that the camera started moving halfway.through
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 March 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link
I wish she got sound for that one. Anything.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 16 March 2019 04:14 (five years ago) link
the silence of that film made it feel very experimental but it was also hypnotic.
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 March 2019 04:33 (five years ago) link
Unless my scan of the thread lied, it appears I never linked the memorial piece my genius friend Kate wrote for Cinema Scope shortly after Akerman's passing.http://cinema-scope.com/columns/deaths-of-cinema/
― Simon H., Saturday, 16 March 2019 04:46 (five years ago) link
really great, thanks
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 March 2019 04:58 (five years ago) link
Hotel Monterey has no story, it’s just a black and white film document of a residential hotel in NY in 1973, featuring mostly elderly people, with no sound, starting in the lobby and moving in to the elevator and up to individual rooms (open doors, closed doors) to the roof and its views
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 March 2019 05:23 (five years ago) link
also lots of shots of fluorescent-lit corridors.
― Dan S, Saturday, 16 March 2019 05:37 (five years ago) link
I once synced Hotel Monterey with Eno’s Discreet Music and it was just about perfect.
― vmajestic, Saturday, 16 March 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
I loved Les rendez-vous d'Anna
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
so many of the shots in it had the subject in the middle of the frame, with the sides of the frame mirroring each other. it felt like it really matched the anonymity and dissatisfaction of the narrative
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 23:49 (five years ago) link
have been watching her films over again and there haven't been any that seem like a throwaway
― Dan S, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 00:33 (five years ago) link
Finally found this screenshot of Chantal akerman on Facebook pic.twitter.com/8uyDF7rsT3— alexander iadarola (@aliadarola) October 9, 2019
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
Full retro happening in Toronto and I started with this. Bolstered by someone I briefly dated with the same name being in attendance. Great movie.
― Simon H., Friday, 8 November 2019 03:09 (four years ago) link
it was very enigmatic
― Dan S, Friday, 8 November 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
Hoberman had a good review
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/movies/les-rendez-vous-danna-chantal-akerman.html
― Dan S, Friday, 8 November 2019 03:19 (four years ago) link
I love the repeated visual of revolving flashing lights from outside that are reflected in the room in Jeanne Dielmann and still wonder what it is supposed to mean, It didn’t seem like it could be from a nearby neon sign, more like it was police lights, maybe a foreshadowing of the ending
― Dan S, Friday, 8 November 2019 03:47 (four years ago) link
not really revolving so much as swinging back and forth
― Dan S, Friday, 8 November 2019 04:07 (four years ago) link
I think I also loved this because I have a deep emotional attachment to long aimless train rides
― Simon H., Friday, 8 November 2019 04:10 (four years ago) link
I was just thinking about this movie yesterday, it's been a while and I haven't thought about it much.Was it a new DCP? a friend of mine in NYC saw it last year & I'm pretty sure it wasn't a print. I always forget it's in her Eclipse set.
has anyone seen Window Shopping / Golden Eighties? looks potentially awesome but I can't find it anywhere
― flappy bird, Friday, 8 November 2019 05:12 (four years ago) link
it was a new "restored" DCP apparently
also have tix for: Les Annees 80s La Captive and a double feature of Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles and Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman
― Simon H., Friday, 8 November 2019 05:23 (four years ago) link
I've only seen La Captive and the self portrait. I haven't read the Proust book, but I couldn't get into it. Very formal, but not like her other films, like dud Chabrol. I was bored by it, though not as much as Almayer's Folly.
CA/CA is cool, it's a clip show w/o much manipulation iirc. it's not like Beaches of Agnes (unfortunately)
― flappy bird, Friday, 8 November 2019 06:02 (four years ago) link
spurred on by tonight's viewing, I just also picked up tix for Golden Eighties, No Home Movies and Demain on Demenage. (I had vouchers to use up by year's end.)
― Simon H., Friday, 8 November 2019 06:25 (four years ago) link
I love the repeated visual of revolving flashing lights from outside that are reflected in the room in Jeanne Dielmann and still wonder what it is supposed to mean, It didn’t seem like it could be from a nearby neon sign
i looked into this last year but i forget if i found anything solid. since prostitution is legal in brussels i was wondering whether you were supposed to infer something about her work from her address - because of the name of the street i gathered that her building was in a commercial district (at least, no less of one than you see her walking through in the middle of the city) and figured the lights were neon signs.
― j., Friday, 8 November 2019 06:37 (four years ago) link
"Golden Eighties" is kinda fun but ultimately inessential.I got it on a twofer with "Toute une Nuit ("All Night Long"). First CA movie I saw. Fascinated me as a 17 yo but not sure whether I could sit through it these days."Rendez Vous d'Anna" is my favorite of hers. Rewatched it recently after 20 years or so and although I had forgotten most of the "story", i was amazed how the vibe had stayed with me all these years.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 8 November 2019 09:15 (four years ago) link
You're one Nuit, Anna, Golden Eighties is phenomenonal range of possibility.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 8 November 2019 10:04 (four years ago) link
Toute une Nuit
Can’t speak to whether it is “essential” or not but Golden Eighties is really charming, has a great cast and is there anything else like it in her filmography? Pascal Bonitzer contributed to the screenplay.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 November 2019 10:51 (four years ago) link
I feel like Tomorrow We Move is always absent from retros and the conversation about CA - it's essentially a screwball comedy, with Sylvie Testud as a chain smoking CA stand-in and Aurore Clement as her mom. I know there's that rom com she did with Juliette Binoche and William Hurt, afaik her only move in English. but Tomorrow We Move is really bittersweet and melancholy in a different way than any of her other movies.
― flappy bird, Friday, 8 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
I'll be seeing that one as well.
― Simon H., Friday, 8 November 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
I am in the middle of a deep love affair with the facebook exchange flappy bird posted upthread.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 9 November 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
🐐
― flappy bird, Saturday, 9 November 2019 05:02 (four years ago) link
I am pitching an Akerman pod to my Lodgers co host.
― Simon H., Saturday, 9 November 2019 05:11 (four years ago) link
Yes!
― flappy bird, Saturday, 9 November 2019 06:04 (four years ago) link
...which is already turning into a meta project about the difficulty of completist cinephilia even before she approves it!
― Simon H., Saturday, 9 November 2019 06:07 (four years ago) link
Chantal Akerman getting a Criterion Channel spotlight in June, including her hard-to-come-by musical GOLDEN EIGHTIES, which I’ve only seen sans subs pic.twitter.com/3TproQHd6Z— Scott Nye (@railoftomorrow) May 20, 2020
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
That one rules.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link
ok guess ill do the free trial then
― flappy bird, Thursday, 21 May 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
man, the Criterion Channel added some stuff I'd never seen (Golden Eighties).
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
do they have Les Annees 80 also? kind of an interesting companion
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
Temptation to subscribe...rising...
― flappy bird, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
I will def be doing an Akerman series in the screening room if I keep it up a while.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
And a slew of Dunye films I haven't seen.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
i saw Golden Eighties last night in 35mm and was quite taken with it... a '50s Technicolor pastiche that manages to incorporate her mother's Holocaust experience.
Was Delphine Seyrig ever not All-World in anything? Heartbreaking.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, February 25, 2016
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
Good to know, Simon, thanks. That means I can wait.
I MUST SEE THIS IMMEDIATELY 😭
― flappy bird, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
Dunno how Seyrig keeps her cool, projects empathy, yet stays mysterious at the same time.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
sort of a less 'royal' Jeanne Moreau
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
Was just thinking of her as well.
― Ernani and the Professor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
That means I can wait.
I think if I did Rendez vous D'Anna / d'Est (maybe?) / Golden Eighties / No Home Movie as the selections, that should be sufficiently head-spinning.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 1 June 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
she's certainly antic in Blow Up My Town, esp for a Topic Omega film
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link