Criterion shared this pic of Truffaut & Bunuel (on the set of Tristana?) today:
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/p206x206/206044_10152427689270565_1744987658_n.jpg
re: Adele H--I really like the sequence when she's been trailing Pinson with his society girlfriend, and she's sneaked onto the woman's estate, following the couple as they pass by windows in the house. Adjani communicates this intense level of disgust just by running and staring.
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 January 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
Adjani was magnificent in that film. So beautiful and batshit insane. You can't keep your eyes off her. I can see why Truffaut was smitten.
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 4 January 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
As a gay man, I have more authority than most of you to claim that Adjani was one of the most sexiest women in the world as Adele.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 January 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
I ain't gay but I sure agree with you haha!
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 4 January 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
I have a thing for bookish, slightly manic brunettes with porcelain skin who write on foolscap : )
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 4 January 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
less authority, as it turns out, over adverbs
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 January 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
Jeanne Moreau is 85 today!
Who remembers that for 2 years she was married to William Friedkin?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
*raises hand*
Didn't know it was two years though.
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
In that famous Biskind book, there's a story about the newlyweds seeing Star Wars together the week before Sorcerer opened.
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
Has anybody seen Such A Gorgeous Kid Like Me? It’s a comedy-noir that Truffaut did in ‘72 with Bernadette Lafont that apparently was never put out on video or DVD in the states. It looks…interesting.
― The Homeliness of The Long Distance Punner (Charles McCain), Tuesday, February 6, 2007 4:59 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
watched this. it's not good. not familiar w/ lafont but her character (& it's basically a character study of her) is painfully unconvincing, a manipulative sexpot who is so transparent i can only assume truffaut wants us to think every male on screen is 100% brainless & deserve their collective commuppance for each using her in their own way? which, idk, fine but im not sure the point.
― johnny crunch, Friday, 26 July 2013 00:25 (ten years ago) link
Gotta remember to see what's up TCM tomorrow, since I've so far forgotten every Friday.
― Orpheus in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 July 2013 01:16 (ten years ago) link
ya ive grabbed a lot
tmrw im recording day for night, last metro, wild child - never seen any of them!
― johnny crunch, Friday, 26 July 2013 01:24 (ten years ago) link
seen the first and last of these, even stayed at the hotel in Nice where Day for Night was filmed.
― Orpheus in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 July 2013 01:25 (ten years ago) link
RIP Bernadette Lafont ; (
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jul/26/bernadette-lafont
Always one of my fave New Wave actors - and the most gorgeous IMHO.
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 26 July 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
^^Truth. Her first scene of Chabrol's A Double Tour-- http://31.media.tumblr.com/d3b9055f8e0ea5cb0e69db6a5620edcd/tumblr_mk6lzwvM7W1s5fvgyo1_250.gif
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 27 July 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
i realize i mustve known her from les bonnes femmes hm yea i liked her there
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 July 2013 01:12 (ten years ago) link
Criterion Blu-Ray of The Soft Skin looks good.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 July 2015 13:01 (eight years ago) link
The DVD supplements are great! Lots about Hitch's influence on Truffaut, and Chabrol gets in a great dig about TSS's particularly inappropriate nod to Notorious (if you've seen both films, you probably remember the scene).
Found the film itself a minor letdown, though. The first hour, in particular, is terrifically paced, and the nods to Hitchcock kept me on my toes, at least until I figured out exactly where the film was going, but Truffaut's clear dislike of the two lead characters becomes an increasingly difficult obstacle to overcome. Truffaut himself seemed mildly dissatisfied with the film for this very reason, even pretty much saying so in the interview conducted around the time of the film's release that's included on the disc.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Saturday, 25 July 2015 03:02 (eight years ago) link
agree
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 July 2015 03:11 (eight years ago) link
Okay but when is Two English Girls getting released on Criterion I'm ready
― sbes114, Saturday, 25 July 2015 04:37 (eight years ago) link
He's a bore, but an interesting bore.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 28 July 2017 02:25 (six years ago) link
Last night saw one of the few Truffaut films I'd never seen before, La Chambre vert (1978). Per its reputation, moribund, lugubrious, and possessed of only the feeblest narrative drive; obviously, I liked it very much.— 𝕿𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖞 (@NickPinkerton) August 23, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 August 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
otm
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 August 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
After a terrific opening fifteen minutes introducing the couple's environs, as cheerfully unrealistic as Jean Renoir's late films, Bed and Board gets weird, cute, and arch. Every scene with Doinel's Japanese mistress is terrible.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 May 2019 01:33 (four years ago) link
I don't know how I still haven't seen any Doinel films beyond The 400 Blows and the short.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, 5 May 2019 01:34 (four years ago) link
Diminishing returns.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 May 2019 01:43 (four years ago) link
Stolen Kisses is pretty damn good.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 11:39 (four years ago) link
Yes.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 May 2019 11:40 (four years ago) link
Very much so. I *like* the diminishing returns
― call me cismale (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 May 2019 11:57 (four years ago) link
Mississippi Mermaid better than I remembered but still about 30 mins too long. I kept thinking, "Chabrol would've tightened this shit."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 September 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
surprised to see that this is the only Truffaut thread, with less than 100 posts
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
I think he's lacking in most things that draw people to the nouvelle vague - radical politics, youth culture cool...there's some experimental stuff in his early work but mostly he's quite a conventional filmmaker, narratively speaking. A lot of this could be applied to Rohmer as well but he's a more unique flavour.
That being said, dude did a lot of great movies!
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 09:43 (two years ago) link
_Mississippi Mermaid_ better than I remembered but still about 30 mins too long. I kept thinking, "Chabrol would've tightened this shit."
― Blue Yoda No. 9 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 10:56 (two years ago) link
going back again chronologically I’ve only made it through Fahrenheit 451 so far. That film seems kind of bad to me, but I thought The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, Jules and Jim, and The Soft Skin were all pretty great
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 22:37 (two years ago) link
re: Bed and Board, "Every scene with Doinel's Japanese mistress is terrible." I was fascinated by those scenes
― Dan S, Monday, 5 July 2021 01:52 (two years ago) link
Day For Night, as a film about the making of a film and the deceptions and pretentiousness involved while at the same time showing the extreme flaws of the producers, actors and crew, was fascinating
― Dan S, Monday, 5 July 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
Still need to catch that one.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 10:00 (two years ago) link
Saw Jules and Jim on the big screen for the first time tonight. Conclusions:1. It’s absolutely a masterpiece 2. Detractors are correct that the first half far outshines the second half, which gets slightly boring and circular3. It might be retitled ‘Two Guys and a Manic Pixie Dream Girl.’ Jeanne Moreau’s character is an obvious narcissist, though no one in the film ever uses the n-word
― Josefa, Monday, 25 July 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
it's definitely a foundational text for the mpdg phenomenon
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 25 July 2022 05:51 (one year ago) link
Think maybe I first paid attention to Jeanne Moreau in Louis Malle’s Viva Maria!
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 July 2022 06:05 (one year ago) link
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― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 8 February 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link