Claire Denis

Coming up to the city for the last day of High Life and missing the Kaurismäki Metrograph retro by one day 😔

saw Bastards. I like that Claire Denis uses The Tindersticks in the soundtracks of two of her films

She's used the Tindersticks or Stuart Staples in every film she's made since Nenette et Boni in 1996!

never saw Nenette et Boni, only started noticing it with the title song to Trouble Every Day. didn't realize that they did the scores for 35 Rhums and White Material

amazing scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIIzc_DluY4

I like that! US Go Home is another one of her films I still have to watch

glad to see Gregoire Colin show up in so many of her films

she loves amateur dance scenes so much. i do too!

They always express character.

Alex Descas is amazing in No Fear No Die… viscerally painful. And 180 degrees from his character 18 years later in 35 Rhums.

I really liked ‘35 Rhums’ but don’t think I’ve seen any of Denis’ other films.

out today on CC

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6380-let-the-sunshine-in-one-love

Claire on bad men

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6392-all-the-bad-men-in-let-the-sunshine-in

Do you have gluten-free olives?

That actor is Xavier Beauvois, the director of Of Gods and Men and Les Guardiennes. He's very good in that scene!

yep

Bfi putting on a season of her films this month

I just got back from Brazil and felt like banging you!

keep it to yourself streaming here http://www.lecinemaclub.com/

for yourself*

thinking back on it, "high life" plays better in my head as one big joke about being way too high all the time

or onanistic

High Life is a really great title

Bad take

“The fact Adèle Haenel got up and walked out [at the Césars] – I mean, she has the right to, but with her finger pointed at us shouting "shame!" – I found that a bit strange. People voted, they thought Polanski's film was the best, that's the Césars." – Claire Denis pic.twitter.com/si3b1V57DZ

— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) March 9, 2020

Why?

Well, for one they probably thought Ladj Ly was the best, but he won Best Film and couldn't win both

Yeah, there were five other options still.

Adèle Haenel is a victim of child sex abuse and the fact that she vocally objected to this win and left the auditorium is laudable. What’s she supposed to do? Sit quietly and hope that they do better next year?

I haven't read it yet but there's a whole interview with Claire Denis in Le Monde about this. She seems to be saying that Adèle Haenel's anger is 'fundamentally just' but she didn't 'pick the right time to speak out', whatever the fuck that means.

I'm also weirded out by this argument:

A quoi sert, d’ailleurs, de le dire si tard [que « distinguer Polanski, ce serait cracher sur les victimes »] ? Dans cette logique, il faudrait priver Polanski de toute aide de l’Etat et l’interdire au Centre national de la cinématographie, comme semble l’y encourager le ministre de la culture. Mais dès lors que Polanski est autorisé à vivre en France et à faire des films en France, il me semble difficile de l’éconduire aussi tardivement.

Quick translation:

What point is there, incidentally, in saying it so late [that honouring Polanski is tantamount to spitting in the victims' faces]? If we go by this logic, Polanski should be denied all state funding and be banned from the Centre national de la cinématographie, which is what the minister of culture seems to be advocating. But insofar as Polanski is given leave to reside in France and to make films in France, it seems difficult to usher him out so late.

Ok…?

Minister for culture otm.

I haven't read it yet but there's a whole interview with Claire Denis in Le Monde about this. She seems to be saying that Adèle Haenel's anger is 'fundamentally just' but she didn't 'pick the right time to speak out', whatever the fuck that means.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, March 9, 2020 2:39 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Booooo. Denis calling her protest "strange" is stupid & and lol you always know someone has actually picked 'the right time to speak out' when others criticize them for exactly that.

but Polanski's film won--I guess "thats the Cesars"

(and I am booing Denis, I am with you pom)

Minister for culture otm.

Poor guy has been tested positive for Covid-19. :(

Did Both Sides of the Blade play anywhere beside a couple of obscure DC-area theaters? My initial impression is Let the Sunshine In except bad, so I'll excuse anyone who missed this for whatever reason.

(The downtown Landmark theater that usually gives this sort of film one week is tied up right now with the Thor and Top Gun movies.)

https://metrograph.com/claire-denis-introduces-lintrus/

No chatter about the new one, eh? I'm almost finished.

Which one? There were two this year right?

not managed to see either of the two ones but seems strange how quickly she seems to have swung from being extremely en vogue to out of it

Haven't seen Stars at Noon but Both Sides of the Blade is up there with Let the Sunshine In among her newer stuff, for me

Doesn't Beau Travail scoring so highly in the S&S poll mean she's still in some kind of vogue (genuine question!) Or does it cement her as a prolific artist whose recent work is doomed to be compared unfavourably with her greatest hit(s)? White Material - a sobering 13 years ago - is the last one that really did it for me, and I still think it's a bit neglected.

I liked this quote from her in a recent Sight and Sound:

To meet Marguerite Duras was to go to the kitchen and learn how to cook

stars at noon worked for me ~ it nicely captured the confusing nature of an accidental new relationship btwn qualley & allwyn's characters w the similarly confusing geopolitical backdrop--one's left uncertain of anothers motivations at every turn idk i think it pulled it off tho i can def see ppl dismiss this

plus the tindersticks title track is lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzE0XSeQpO0

curious abt the denis johnson novel also

Cinema Guild announced that the new Blu-ray for “35 Shots of Rum” is being corrected because the wrong movie was pressed on to the disc.

Some buyers who pre-ordered it have received it, and upon playing said disc, the movie is hilariously “Road House” with Patrick Swayze.