French Film Search and Destroy

likewise - whats to dislike about La Haine?

Also terrible: Claude Lelouch. He gets a pass for inventing the, er, Lelouch, though.

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train is pretty good.

as is "The Self Made Hero"

"Amelie" proves you can't base an entire film out of some attractive bird staring doe-eyed at the camera.

No Ally on this thread yet?

Delicatessen
Le Jour Du Fete (My favorite Tati)
La Vaccance de M. Hulot
La Haine
Milou en Mai
Clubbed to Death
Doberman

Destroy
Amelie (or rather just feh)

Can anyone tell me what the film is that features Gerard Depardieu as a gay burglar who mugs a couple and ensnares them into his life of crime and buggery?

And I personally could never stand Jacques Tati.

But that said, search away for Bande apart (Band of OUtsiders), Le Mépris (Contempt), Truffaut's Doinel movies, anything by Renoir (especially Grand Illusion + Rules of the Game), Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, errr. Lots more.

For more recent stuff I highly stuff by Ozon (Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes, Sous le sable--and 8 femmes is sort of a treat). Also Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep, one of my favourite movies and sadly underseen.

I like 'a woman is a woman' a lot, too.

I like 'amelie'.

'alphaville'!

Destroy
Luc Besson's English Films

Pretty much anything by Jean Renoir, Marcel Carne or written by Jacques Prevert or starring Jean Gabin. Favourite example of these classics: La Grande Illusion. Le Jour Se Leve and Quai Des Brumes and Pepe Le Moko need mentioning too.

Vigo's L'Atalante and Zero de Conduite.

all Godard's early films, especially those with Anna Karina. I even like most of his later ones.

Delicatessen and City Of Lost Children

Most of Truffaut's. Celine And Julie Go Boating, too.

Cyrano de Bergerac was great.

French film is way up its own arse these days, although I loved "La haine" and thought "Amelie" was gneuinely charming.

Special loathing for Eric Rohmer and Last year at Marienbad.

Hiroshima Mon Amour as well, surely. Godard, all the obvious ones. Sadly I haven't yet explored any of his 80's work. Nouvelle Vague was good though. Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud is good. I also really enjoyed Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse, though I can see why others may not.

ahem.

Search : anything by Bertrand Tavernier.

Resnais - now that's pretentious artsy fartsy craft. And I do lurve it so.

Vive la France!

Cocteau - Testament of Orpheus, Beauty & Beast, Blood of Poet, etc.
Renoir - Day in the Country, Grand Illusion, etc.
Resnais - Last Year at Marienbad, Hiroshima Mon Amour
Carne - Children of Paradise
Goddard - Weekend, Alphaville
Jeunet

::shivers, twitches, grinds teeth::

What about the part where the workers eat the sandwich and talk about Marxism? It's gobs of fun!

I guess I could include the Three Colours trilogy even though they were directed by a Pole - Red and White are my favourites. La Double vie de Veronique too.

For more French Polish, Polanski's "The tenant" is an oft forgotten piece of insane genius.

David Ehrenstein on Duras:

http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/the-films-of-marguerite-duras

can someone tell me how is Naked Childhood by Maurice Pialat (his debut).

seen lot's of praise , but almost no "official" Reviews

it was produced by truffaut, and has things in common w/ 400 blows. there is some tough to watch animal cruelty, and some nakedly human performances that also might make you want to look away, if you weren't so transfixed by the truth of the acting. it is one of the great directorial debuts, certainly as good as anything else by Pialat (which is high praise imho)

great. i will watch!

thnx

ILX search tells me i put it on my "best rep watches" for 2004, so that's the best i can do.

oh cool Ehrenstein still writes besides trolling comments sections.

Jean Grémillon retro in NYC

http://www.movingimage.us/films/2014/11/21/detail/jean-grmillon/

Since the only ones that seem "available" digitally are Lumiere d'été, Remorques and Le ciel est à vous, another argument for quitting my job to go to rep screenings.

anyone seen anything here? new Techine and Honore....

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2015

well Melvil Poupaud AND Anders Danielsen Lie are in Fidelio, l'odyssée d'Alice, so that's double-stud action...

I really liked Outside Satan. Quiet, contemplative violence, beautifully shot.

i'm going to ask here about the 1951 a/g classic VENOM AND ETERNITY?

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2015#showing-44511

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t05VTBTAtUQ

so the Pagnol trilogy from the '30s, what of it? Nick Pinkerton:

https://www.artforum.com/film/id=65686

I like. Didn't someone like Orson Welles say Raimu was his favorite actor or the world's best actor or something to that effect?

Wiki sez "was considered the ultimate actor by luminaries such as Alec Guinness, Marlene Dietrich, and Orson Welles."

My partner's french and this x-mas her brother gave me a buncha French popular classics: Yves Robert, "La Traversée De Paris" with Gabin and Bouvril, Coluche, a Lelouche movie with Lino Ventura and Jacques Brel, a buncha Louis de Funès movies that are supposedly much better than the Gendarme stuff. It's interesting how these mainstream things are much more obscure outside France than Rivette or Eustache even (Lelouche exempted - I gather we're not supposed to like him?).

I love some Lelouche and among my film loving friends in France - all in their late 20s-late 30s - his stuff is pretty much embraced. The one your partner got is fun - the pairing of Ventura and Brel never fails (see "L'Emmerdeur").

Actually have "La Traversée De Paris" lined up to watch. I haven't seen Bourvil in anything other than "Le Cercle Rouge" so seeing him do his thing as a comedian will probably be a little jarring at first.

This looks great:

https://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=20802

just a few days ago I was nearly going to suggest to my gf we watch "Going Places" ('74 Bertrand blier) cuz I knew it was expiring from Netflix and that it was French and she knows a bit of the language -- dodged a bullet there lmao, its not horror but it is like extreme nasty French misogyny/nihilism. its hard to be convincing and be like I swear I had no idea this was the subject matter! even when that is 100% true ~
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, September 30, 2015 12:08 PM

Rewatched this week (remembering hardly anything from decades back) and yeah this would never be distributed today...

But surely it is meant as a commentary on what we now call toxic masculinity? Or was Jeanne Moreau just a witting accomplice to misogyny?

Finally watching the Pagnol Marseille trilogy on CC. Raimu reminds me of Gleason and Zero Mostel; I wonder if they saw his work.

Gigi. No, wait...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, February 24, 2003 11:35 AM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Search Gigi (Audry, 1949).

Urgent and key: Search Razzia Sur La Chnouf (Decoin, 1955; just released in a Region A Blu-ray by Kino Lorber)

also, the (first) US condensation of the Pagnol trilogy was directed by James Whale and written by Preston Sturges :o

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/indochina-song

Also, xpost, what?

All seven episodes of Pialat's 1971 TV series The House in the Woods have now been uploaded to YT, with English subs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1aHhIVFRt8&list=PLh06URz4IJQ4iUTdz7ECikWiRvfLaeCXc&fbclid=IwAR2JjPTudCJuabeLkOKV5OBjLVoLQKWHC5OIkJzQ890BzUTbQ3aUY4z6COI

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