he even died in 1996 just to enhance the feeling
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Saturday, 8 December 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
ha hahe is the best thougheven just thinking about kieslowski films is nicewatch them in order if you can, 乒乓, there are some echoes between that would make sense in any order but which have some kinda sequential pay-off imo
― ~bacon trailblazer~ (schlump), Saturday, 8 December 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
blue and white are probably interchangeable but red's best last
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
You had to be lolninteen in 1994 to understand the impact of Red and Pulp Fiction in the same season.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
stephen king is writing a 1000p speculative-historical novel about what would have happened if red won the palme in 94
― ~bacon trailblazer~ (schlump), Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
things to do in zurich when you're disassociated
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
Jean-Louis Trintignat plays a Rotter for the ages
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
still all about white. "i'm afraid the office may be bugged." "by whom?" "who knows?"
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:22 (eleven 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."
but you're a russophile -- how can you love a Polish movie
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno if "phile"'s the right suffix really
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
or do you gobble Polish movies as if they were Polish officers and you were the Red Army
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
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
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 8 December 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
looks like I'll be seeing Red first
― 乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
I've always liked books that start at the end though
I think you should watch them in order
― iatee, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
but it wouldn't make a huge difference
film forum isn't showing the other two
― 乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
o
― iatee, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
are they on netflix streaming
blue would prob be really really gorgeous in a theatre now that i think about it
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
perhaps
I think I'll just time machine myself back and watch them before I watch Red in a few days
― 乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
it's not like there is some spoiler that ruins the other movies or anything
― iatee, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
okay cool just got back, blue was a lil' better than white can't wait for Red now
― 乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
I also made it so that romney won, has it worked yet
― 乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
film forum is now only showing mormon movies so you tell me
― iatee, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
damn ... a bridge too far
brb
― 乒乓, Sunday, 9 December 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
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)
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 December 2012 06:37 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
― 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?
― CGI fridays (Edward III), Monday, 10 December 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
irene jacob is so pretty u_u
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
I'm no authority on such things but in '94 she was the Most Beautiful Woman in the World.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
no doubt
also the cinematography, the motion of the camera, simply outrageous
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 1 July 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
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!
― queen bey backers (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 22 December 2013 03:53 (ten years ago) link
http://strangewood.tumblr.com/post/90098472452/krzysztof-kieslowski-photographed-by-piotr-jaxa
― 龜, Friday, 27 June 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
what an artistically intimidating assignment
― schlump, Friday, 27 June 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
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.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 June 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 02:25 (nine years ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, December 8, 2012
laughed at this now
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 July 2014 12:34 (nine years ago) link
The Criterion box set defines "gorgeous."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 October 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
btw: https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/seasons/krzysztof-kie%C5%9Blowski-decalogue-25th-anniversary-retrospective
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 October 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
That's an unfortunate encoded URL with the Blowski.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Monday, 13 October 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
forgot about that sequence in which Julie and the boy who took her husband's Christ pendant fruitlessly tries to return it
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 October 2014 01:28 (nine years ago) link
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
― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 December 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
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
― wince (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 25 December 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
Lol Merry Christmas ILX
― wince (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 25 December 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
Ending of most (every?) season of The Wire does this.
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Friday, 26 December 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
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).
― clemenza, Friday, 26 December 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link