French Film Search and Destroy

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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