French Film Search and Destroy

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.

Also search: Subway and the incredibly silly but fun guilty-pleasure Brotherhood Of The Wolf

There's this one called Peppermint Soda that looks very good but I haven't rented it yet.

hstencil: We have never discussed The Hairdresser's Husband, but we can.

slutsky: Hi! I knew someone of that name once, on a faraway island . . .

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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