Kieslowski - Three Colors Trilogy - Poll

still all about white. "i'm afraid the office may be bugged." "by whom?" "who knows?"

"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

i dunno if "phile"'s the right suffix really

or do you gobble Polish movies as if they were Polish officers and you were the Red Army

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

looks like I'll be seeing Red first

I've always liked books that start at the end though

I think you should watch them in order

but it wouldn't make a huge difference

film forum isn't showing the other two

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are they on netflix streaming

blue would prob be really really gorgeous in a theatre now that i think about it

perhaps

I think I'll just time machine myself back and watch them before I watch Red in a few days

it's not like there is some spoiler that ruins the other movies or anything

okay cool just got back, blue was a lil' better than white can't wait for Red now

I also made it so that romney won, has it worked yet

film forum is now only showing mormon movies so you tell me

damn ... a bridge too far

brb

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)

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

blue would prob be really really gorgeous in a theatre now that i think about it

― 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?

irene jacob is so pretty u_u

I'm no authority on such things but in '94 she was the Most Beautiful Woman in the World.

no doubt

also the cinematography, the motion of the camera, simply outrageous

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.

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!

http://strangewood.tumblr.com/post/90098472452/krzysztof-kieslowski-photographed-by-piotr-jaxa

what an artistically intimidating assignment

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.

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.

"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

laughed at this now

The Criterion box set defines "gorgeous."

btw: https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/seasons/krzysztof-kie%C5%9Blowski-decalogue-25th-anniversary-retrospective

That's an unfortunate encoded URL with the Blowski.

forgot about that sequence in which Julie and the boy who took her husband's Christ pendant fruitlessly tries to return it

Newest addition to something I've posted about a few times in this thread, sequences where a song plays as the images link together a number of different characters: the folk song that plays at the end of Mad Men's sixth episode, season one. (New for me--just started watching.)

http://vimeo.com/29164651

Feels like that happened at the end of every third episode ofHouse, Sex and the City, even Entourage...?

I know for sure it happens at least once in Exotica c v possibly it happens every time you hear the song "Everybody Knows". But Egoyan actually does a really good job of using his montages to play up very pointed contrasts not between scenes that seem superficially different but are similar at the core but instead between ine scene which seems superficially innocuous but divulges a very different meaning when viewed closer, a deeper meaning that is parallel to what seems to be the obvious meaning of the second scene that it us intercut with (though that scene also has a secret meaning that is not yet divulged as well) Such as Eric's first trip to the ballet/the introduction of regular Exotica customer Francis

Lol Merry Christmas ILX

Ending of most (every?) season of The Wire does this.

Maybe it's becoming a TV cliche--so many acclaimed series I still have to catch up on (my seven-year delay in starting Mad Men being a case in point).

Added to the Criterion channel on Hulu:
The Scar (1976)
Camera Buff (1979)
No End (1985)
Blind Chance (1987)
A Short Film About Killing (1988)
A Short Film About Love (1989)

I rewatched all three colors this week and for me it's Blue >>>>>>>> White > Red.

otm

though I prefer Red they're pretty even, Blue towers over both

I finished the Dekalog yesterday

The cinematography in Blue by Slawomir Idziak is just so great. Though perhaps it's even better in The Double Life of Veronique. The two other cinematographers aren't as good.

red is finally my favorite

can't believe i've never posted in this thread before

"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