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Somewhat tenuous, but she was in early films.

http://www.themediadrome.com/Images/history/mistinguett_5.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.dancebarkprance.homestead.com/files/1966_CATHERINEDENEUVEANDHERSISTERFRANCOISEDORLEAC.JPG

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.jcpohl.de/graphics/ventura.gif

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.saturn-soft.net/RR/Countries/France/Photos/Aimee.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

http://dvdtoile.com/ARTISTES/3/3437.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

ihttp://member.hitel.net/~k2hdd/adjani84.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2006/jean_vigo.html

― youn, Saturday, 11 February 2006 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Will felicity and bnw go with me to see the films that are showing on Monday? If I work on Sunday, can I leave early on Monday?

― youn, Saturday, 11 February 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm definitely seeing the Garrel on Monday.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Saturday, 11 February 2006 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I will, too. There's a train that leaves at 3:5X pm. I will make up the time tomorrow.

― youn, Sunday, 12 February 2006 05:20 (eighteen years ago) link

search these 2 curiosities made by frenchies in HWood:
MODEL SHOP - anouk is beyond gorgeous (film is so-so, but Anouk!)
OUTSIDE MAN(more than decent hitman thingy - and Ann-Margret is almost as hot as Anouk!)

― phil n. ophuls, Sunday, 12 February 2006 06:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Of course I was too lame to go.

― youn, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 02:28 (eighteen years ago) link

ohmygosh, I just realized Garrel is the director of Regular Lovers!! I am soooo LAME!!

― youn, Friday, 17 February 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i saw a garrel film a few weeks ago which i didn't "get": la révelateur. it was completely silent, and seemed to be a kind of "adaptation" of various lacanian psychoanalytic theories. some of it was undeniably quite striking and beautiful and authentically strange. but it began to feel oppressive and arbitrary after awhile. i had the same thought when watching his very early le lit et la vierge a bunch of years back at the harvard film archive. the only garrel film i've seen that i really liked a whole bunch was j'entends plus de la guitarre. partly because i really like that title. sounds like a leonard cohen song. i'm sort of curious to see la cicatrice interieure w/nico.

in other news a french film from the last year or two which is really good is l'esquive -- i think games of love and chance (ugh) is what the us distributor is calling it.

i wish i could get into that vein of confrontational, sexually explicit french cinema whose exemplary figure is breillat. there's a new film--forgot the title--w/isild le besco and denis levant which sounds interesting but i'd probably be too squeamish for it. apparently it has some almost-hardcore scenes which freaks me out because last i recall ms. le besco was the 15-yr-old ingenue in sade and well, denis levant is denis levant. ew.

― amateurist0, Friday, 17 February 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw Haneke's Cache last night. Has anyone seen it, and figured out where the tapes came from after all? I know it's secodary but I'd love to know.

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 17 February 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link

l'esquive is getting a wider theatrical release in the US this year, right? i'm really anxious to see it.

― joseph (joseph), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:45 (eighteen years ago) link

and yeah that americanized title is awful.

― joseph (joseph), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:45 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry, i mean le lit DE la vierge a.k.a. "the virgin's bed"

i hope l'esquive is getting a wider release, it's really excellent. among other things it provides a strong sense of youth culture in france including the identity politics of french-arabs, french-africans, etc.

jena: there's a whole big thread about caché... just search "haneke"...

― amateurist0, Friday, 17 February 2006 07:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I am in Lille right now as it happens(school work experience). Here are some French flicks I have enjoyed (or suffered through) during lonely nights watching Channel 4 over the last 10 years....

Search: Smoking/No Smoking - where 2 people realistically play about 15 (and the fact it takes place in "Yorkshire". The plummy "English" announcer between scenes is amusing)
Cible emouvante - I like the wit in this movie. Depardieu's son can act.
Les visiteurs - There must be a cut every 2 seconds in this movie. Very fast paced, hundreds of plot threads, high on comedy.

Destroy: Le Ciel, les oiseaux, et ta mere. It's about 4? teenagers making a film on the beach... offensively bad.
Le huitieme jour - Horrific. Making someone with Down's Syndrome the star of an arthouse flick is not a good idea.

Please tell me what you think. :)

― JTS (JTS), Friday, 17 February 2006 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I sincerely doubt l'Esquive is getting a wide US release; it ran for maybe 2-3 weeks in New York last September and I was lucky to catch it. (It's in my top ten of '05 for sure.)

i wish i could get into that vein of confrontational, sexually explicit french cinema whose exemplary figure is breillat.

I'd say count your blessings.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 February 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Gabrielle, motherfuckers. Amazing look and lead performances.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

ne1 seen 'ma 6vt va crack-er'

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

also, Garrel's Regular Lovers finally opens in NYC tom'w.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

yeesh, it's on dvd already here!

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't believe comedy has been so neglected here, people!

Search -->>

Louis de Funes
http://kino.tiscali.cz/apollo/pictures/osobnosti/2004123153136542370.jpg

Bourvil:
http://www.deutsche-synchronsprecher.de/Bilder/bourvil.jpg

Michel Serrault:
http://www.caratteristi.it/foto2/Michel_Serrault.jpg

La Grand Vadrouille
Le Viager
Les Tontons Flingeurs

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i will be there for the 8 pm showing. i will be wearing a black jacket, grey flannel pants, and cherry red shoes.

― youn (youn), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I may go to see TheGoodTimesKid at the Anthology Film Archives tonight instead and go to the 1-ish screening of Regular Lovers tomorrow - in the same clothes. Maybe my shoes are actually mulberry red.

― youn (youn), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh Les Tontons Flingueurs is such a great movie. I have seen it so many times I know mots of the great Audiard dialogues by heart. Also, I loved watching this movie with one of my little cousins, who keeps asking me what they are saying 'cos they speak in "argot" (dunno how to translate that.

― Jibé (Jibé), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

"argot" = "slang"

Yeah, I could barely keep up. And there there's no English translation, as far as I know!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 20 January 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

no mention of Buffet Froid yet, which is a shame.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Saturday, 20 January 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

We are in the Silver Age of French(-language) Film.

― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 20 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Beffet Froid felt like a Cohen Brothers movie to me, i.e. lots of great character actors being pushed around by a nonsensical plot for far too long. Any 5-minute slice would make a great short, though.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

A reviewer for the New Yorker called Regular Lovers flat, which I think is perfectly accurate. One aspect of its being flat may be in not being psychological or introspective from a dominant narrative point of view. (TheGoodTimesKid was not flat even though, like Regular Lovers, it didn't have lots of dialogue.) Another aspect might be in the flatness of the cinematography -- stage sets not vistas. The Birth of Love (Garrel, 1993) is showing at FIAF on January 30.

― youn (youn), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

~~Beffet~~ Buffet

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

((xpost) the only way to be pure)

― youn (youn), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

It is a very beautiful movie. The graininess of the film made me think of etched marble or stone. Francois was already living in the past.

― youn (youn), Sunday, 21 January 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

oh fuck 'ETRE ET AVOIR'!!! containing one of the greatest moments in film:

"Are you my friend?"

"No!"

*both grin at camera*

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

if Regular Lovers is his 'masterpiece,' I can skip the rest. I want to hear the fans say this stuff aloud w/out laughing.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

'La mama et la putain' is at the cine lumiere this sunday (6:45).

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I love Pierrot le fou. Someday a decent DVD of it will be released in the US.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

ne1 seen 'ma 6t va crack-er'
-- the original hauntology blogging crew (miltonpinsk...), January 18th, 2007.

i just got it from hong kong. will update.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Anyone who can recommend any of the French stuff in this NYC fest, all as yet unreleased in America... I'm considering "Dans Paris" only for the two actors' lauded fuckability.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

One of the very best:
Jeux Interdits (Forbidden Games)

― Hatch, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked Regular Lovers well enough, but the only old Garrel film I've seen was much much better. It's called Le Lit De La Vierge, (or The Bed Of The Virgin it's about Jesus and the entire cast was dosed with LSD for the production. It was wonderful and bizarre, I've never seen anything else quite like it. Wish there was a DVD!

― Hatch, Thursday, 1 March 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

gotta be better than those long hash nods in Regular Lovers

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i heard the page-turner was very "french" and very dud

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

'La Mama and La Putain' ws fantastic.

Onwards to March and its 'Jeanne Dielman..' at the NFT on March 17th at a nice and comfy afternoon slot. Paying 12 quid for it is a bit wrong, so we'll see.

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Les Ambitieux et Flandres

― youn, Saturday, 3 March 2007 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone see "The Outsider"? How is it?

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 3 March 2007 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link

People are going to hate me for this, but I really, really loathe Jules and Jim. Destroy it.

― Dan I., Saturday, 3 March 2007 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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