My bad. I'm sorry. I thought he implied something disparaging on the Best Films of the 90s thread :(
― yeah, but I know Taser Fu (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
that doesn't sound like him
― balls, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
i am and pretty much always have been a sucker for art about 'ideas' (and hence was hardcore on the kieslowski train already), was vaguely a cineaste at this time (18-19), and find beautiful women attractive so these films were pretty huge w/ me. had a definite crush on irene jacob (dating back to veronique), so much so i went to see that awful mid-nineties version of othello. i'm probably wrong (i hope so) but is this the last foreign/"art" film/set of films to attain this level of cultural currency/ubiquity? or at least that didn't owe its appeal to violence/action/date flick/whatever the appeal of amelie was? by cultural currency i basically mean 'this movie poster became a dorm room cliche' etc.
― balls, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
Unless you count some Aldomovar films...?
In my mind the "debate" in 1994 wasn't between Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump: more like PF vs Red. Kieslowski's rep was such that he got Best Director and Screenplay nods that year -- and Tarantino himself was a fan.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
*Alomodovar obv
heh - Almodovar
btw I don't think these films are as significant as defenders (like me) argued at the time. Blue and Red are cool, chic noodling, in which we stare at beautiful women for ninety minutes. Kieslowski was lucky in that he died before his style could ossify into a manner (and kitsch).
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
i dont think 'blue' is particularly radical or inventive & its in some ways p trite but i do think its p keenly felt idk if that makes it 'significant'
― Dr. Frog, B.S., M.S.E., Ph.D (Lamp), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
i'm probably wrong (i hope so) but is this the last foreign/"art" film/set of films to attain this level of cultural currency/ubiquity? or at least that didn't owe its appeal to violence/action/date flick/whatever the appeal of amelie was? by cultural currency i basically mean 'this movie poster became a dorm room cliche' etc.
I like these movies but I think the 'trilogy!! colors!!! do you see!!' gimmick is probably responsible for a lot of the interest?
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
I voted blue but I haven't seen white for a long time, barely remember it.
Alfred OTM on Almodovar. Might not meet your criteria, but what about Y tu mama tambien or Amores perros?
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― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i guess almodovar, i'm one of those ppl that forgets that alot of ppl like his recent stuff as much as/more than his 80s stuff.
― balls, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
o duh the three amigos also
― balls, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
didn't like blue at the time, v disappointing after double lifeliked white but it felt slight at the time, my opinion of it greatly improved after *rescreening* itloved red
― buzza, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know how i forgot almodovar since when i thought about irene jacob and her floudering in hollywood i thought of penelope cruz temporarily (and on occasion still) suffering the same fate
― balls, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
IIRC, it's mentioned in Criterion TDLoV book that Tarentino wanted Irene Jacob to play Mia Wallace, but she was already commited to Red.
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
and thus a life was saved
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
They certainly did have cachet. I wasn't the only guy at the time who bought the Blue score (by "Van Den Budenmayer").
also:
Van Den Budenmayer[After Kieślowski's death, Harvey Weinstein (then head of Miramax Films, which distributed the last four Kieślowski films in the US) wrote a eulogy for him in Premiere magazine. In it he said that Quentin Tarantino saw The Double Life of Véronique at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and took note of its star, Irène Jacob. He apparently wrote the part of Bruce Willis's wife in Pulp Fiction for her, but she was unavailable for the shoot.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
If you didn't know, The whole Trilogy coming from Criterion prob' by the end of this year.
I'm going to have to buy it again??
― E.L. Doctorow Who (Leee), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for the PF clarification Alfred!
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho!: Turn Off The Dark (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
blue had a huge impact on me when it came out. I went back and saw it a second time with a date. that date became my wife.
a couple years ago we were having a yard sale and an old lady pulled a vhs copy of blue out of a box. my wife described the movie to her and how it was our first date. the old lady said, "and you still married him? must've been love."
so yeah, blue.
― the manarchist cookbook (Edward III), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
happy birthday krzysztof kieslowski!
Red probably the most powerful of these movies, but I have seen White the most.
― Dominique, Monday, 27 June 2011 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
BLUE BLUE BLUE
― brie on crüt (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 27 June 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
white. white is hilarious. none of the others are hilarious.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Monday, 27 June 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
when i was a teenager my favorite was red hands down though, mostly cuz of irene jacob and her bubble gum.
White, I think. Struggled with the other two to a certain extent, but always liked the closeness of death to the humour in White, the melancholy, and the portrait of adult male companionship.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Monday, 27 June 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
Red
saw em all just once.
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 June 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Red is one of my favorite movies of all time.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
Blue!
― spellcheck is really advanced these days (cajunsunday), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 11:41 (twelve years ago) link
I wish I could remember them. Don't remember anything, really. Hardly remember Double Life of Veronique either.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
juliette binoche furiously eating a lollipop
― Michael B, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
the scene where juliette binoche drags her knuckles along a rock wall is weirdly hard to take for me
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^ the most memorable image.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
Veronique is dulllllllllllllllllll.
sound design in blue is so well done
― snowball's epc in hell (Edward III), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
that part where she throws the sheet music into the garbage truck
― Michael B, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
xxxp i guess that's true as i think about it literally every time i walk past a rock wall
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
many many memorable moments/images in blue
lollipop wrapper blowing in the wind, kids jumping into the pool, the sugarcube, the final montage
― snowball's epc in hell (Edward III), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
The lollipop wrapper in the wind is luscious. I don't dislike anything you mentioned, but when I think of Blue the first thing that comes to mind is Binoche scraping her knuckles, and those stabs of classical music.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
i like the kids jumping into the pool too but honestly it is pretty hard not to roll your eyes at juliette binoche floating in the FETAL POSITION in a pool which is GUESS WHICH COLOR and then agreeing to hang out with the prostitute after which A WHOLE BUNCH OF YELLING PEOPLE PILE INTO THE PREVIOUSLY EMPTY POOL DO YOU SEE
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
I love the expression of silent contempt when Binoche watches that old woman struggle and fail to stick her plastic bottle in the recycling bin.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
nah even that's better in white -- his reassured smirk at knowing that there are people worse off than him.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
I kinda feel like blue as a whole is kind of eye-rolly? could write the whole thing off like eh europeans are saddo classicals but for me you either go with the melodrama or not and I'm all in
― snowball's epc in hell (Edward III), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/sugar.jpg
I kinda feel like blue as a whole is kind of eye-rolly? could write the whole thing off like eh europeans are saddo classicals but for me you either go with the melodrama or not and I'm all in― snowball's epc in hell (Edward III), Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:49 AM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark
― snowball's epc in hell (Edward III), Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:49 AM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark
yeah this is all true and sometimes i am in too.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
That's why I prefer Red.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
A review at that time called Blue "an exquisite tone poem." Then added: "But movies aren't poems."
no movies are pineapples made of sound and images
― snowball's epc in hell (Edward III), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
intellectually it's easy to reason out why red is the better picture but blue works on my emotions like music and that's a magical thing so it gets the banana
(last minute campaigning)
― snowball's epc in hell (Edward III), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
red is finally my favorite
can't believe i've never posted in this thread before
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 February 2019 00:41 (five 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."
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, December 8, 2012
this scene is so fucking funny
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 February 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
this is not directly trilogy related but man Blind Chance absolutely rules. I really need to find a copy of No End as well
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Sunday, 3 February 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link
i saw no end at the momi a few years ago. not a great movie for a first date but still: wonderful, kind of like if blue were a ghost story
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 February 2019 01:15 (five years ago) link
can anybody vouch for the movie he wrote but didn't direct? title escapes me rn
― flappy bird, Sunday, 3 February 2019 01:26 (five years ago) link
heaven. never seen it
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 February 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
nah it was this one, 'Big Animal' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246593/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_7
thought about renting it but wasn't sure
― flappy bird, Sunday, 3 February 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link
oh huh there was one that wasn't heaven???
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 February 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
The only parts of Red for which I'll make allowances are the phone conversations with the boyfriend.
Otherwise my god Jean-Louis Trintignant.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 February 2019 03:57 (five years ago) link
Three Colours trilogy is on Amazon Prime at the moment, btw, in the UK at least.
― Alba, Sunday, 3 February 2019 07:07 (five years ago) link
I chose Red. I love how whenever the film threatens to get pompous life interrupts: light bulbs go out, local boys ("Turks," grumbles the building superintendent) put chewing gum in locks. And there's always Irene Jacob, drinking pear brandy and listening with the most beautiful concentration ever.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 20, 2011 3:02 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is otm
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 February 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
I know!
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 February 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
i think the film's construction is remarkable. all those echoes in the images and dialogue, from scene to scene practically; with a heavier touch they'd be unbearable, with a lighter touch they'd be invisible
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 3 February 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
a little nervous about this one still but https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/03/28/sonata-on-human-connection-red-1994/
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 29 March 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
lol i forgot i cannibalized my last post in this thread for a sentence in this piece
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 29 March 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
only got to this now but really wonderful piece, risk pays off imo
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 18 April 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
yeah White is the best one
― flappy bird, Saturday, 17 October 2020 04:01 (three years ago) link
hm!
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 October 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
White was certainly may fav back in the day, for the humor. Funny, I almost revisited Red last night, for the first time in 15yrs or so.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Saturday, 17 October 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
Blue was one of the first movies I went for when the pandemic hit, I think it has an amazing opening sequence and stays good but nothing lives up to that tunnel or the extreme close up of the eye... Ditto for opening of Red, which is also funnier than I remember. White is just the most consistent one imo, and it's hilarious, with the other two I find myself looking at the cinematography, sort of disengaged from the story.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 17 October 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
like when he gets dumped out of the suitcase and looks up and says "I'M HOME!" and it's the most drab ugly looking patch of mud and snow with a bulldozer, and then cue the orchestra. lmao
xxp I watched Red last night and White the night before--I watched Blue all the way back in March and for whatever reason didn't feel compelled to rewatch, glad I did
― flappy bird, Saturday, 17 October 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
xp i don't particularly like these films but this is for sure the best moment
― devvvine, Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
red is stacked with amazing moments but i always enjoy hearing from white truthers
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
The Double life of Véronique was really beautiful! I hadn’t seen it before now. The metaphysical story that remained unexplained, the sense of a connection between lives, the music, use of color, cinematography were all incredible. And Irène Jacob
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link