ILX search tells me i put it on my "best rep watches" for 2004, so that's the best i can do.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
oh cool Ehrenstein still writes besides trolling comments sections.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
anyone seen anything here? new Techine and Honore....
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/rendez-vous-with-french-cinema-2015
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
well Melvil Poupaud AND Anders Danielsen Lie are in Fidelio, l'odyssée d'Alice, so that's double-stud action...
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
I really liked Outside Satan. Quiet, contemplative violence, beautifully shot.
― Dave fischer, Friday, 13 February 2015 05:10 (nine years ago) link
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
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 06:12 (eight years ago) link
so the Pagnol trilogy from the '30s, what of it? Nick Pinkerton:
https://www.artforum.com/film/id=65686
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link
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?
― The Magnificent Galileo Seven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 January 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
Wiki sez "was considered the ultimate actor by luminaries such as Alec Guinness, Marlene Dietrich, and Orson Welles."
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
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?).
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 6 January 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 6 January 2017 14:33 (seven years ago) link
This looks great:
https://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=20802
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 January 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link
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?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 May 2019 02:07 (four years ago) link
Finally watching the Pagnol Marseille trilogy on CC. Raimu reminds me of Gleason and Zero Mostel; I wonder if they saw his work.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
Gigi. No, wait...― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, February 24, 2003 11:35 AM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 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)
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
also, the (first) US condensation of the Pagnol trilogy was directed by James Whale and written by Preston Sturges :o
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/indochina-song
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
Also, xpost, what?
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 May 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
👍👍👍
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link