Wait til you get to the '80s. He's one of my Nouvelle Vague faves but he made some clunkers.
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 15 September 2019 06:59 (four years ago) link
BETTY: yes?
― flappy bird, Sunday, 15 September 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
YES!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 September 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
yes indeed
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, September 15, 2019 2:59 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
how much of the 80s? The Cry of the Owl, from 87, is great
― flappy bird, Monday, 7 October 2019 04:38 (four years ago) link
Less affaires des femmes is great, made some great ones with Isabelle huppert in the '80s and '90s. La ceremonie is my favourite.
― plax (ico), Monday, 7 October 2019 07:34 (four years ago) link
Not all the huppert ones are gold, I think he takes after Hitchcock in a another key way: he doesn't have a key period, he makes clunkers and gems all the way through.
― plax (ico), Monday, 7 October 2019 07:35 (four years ago) link
I also love les biches and I can never understand why it isn't more famous as a camp classic.
― plax (ico), Monday, 7 October 2019 07:36 (four years ago) link
'80s clunkers from memory: Le Sang des autres, Le cri du hibou, Jours Tranquilles à Clichy, maybe one of the Inspecteur Lavardin flicks...
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 7 October 2019 07:48 (four years ago) link
The Champagne Murders?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
Just Before Nightfall is hilarious
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:26 (four years ago) link
how about A Double Tour / Web of Lies / Leda? whatever it's called. his third movie (for some reason I thought LBF was his third)
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
Double Tour is fun. Great cast. Belmondo right before Breathless.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
Bizarre coincidence with this Lazlo Kovacs thing... his alias in Breathless, and his name in A Double Tour... 10 years before a real Lazlo Kovacs shot Easy Rider.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
I used to think that, until I learned that Laszlo Kovács is the Hungarian equivalent of John Smith.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
ah that makes sense
Pleasure Party is INCREDIBLE... it's as if Fassbinder's Martha were autobiographical. the best Chabrol film I've seen by a mile.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 12 December 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
The Twist is the first one I've seen that's just fucking annoying. À double tour is unremarkable, but I'm dying to find out what happened to Andre Jocelyn, the guy that co-starred in that and starred in Chabrol's incredible Ophelia in 1963. IMDb page, that's his last credit, can't find any info on him. Great performances in both. Dead or retired.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 21 December 2019 06:00 (four years ago) link
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073001/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2
Claude Chabrol himself often defined this title as "the worst film" of his career, stating he was fully aware at the time that the whole project was doomed from the very beginning
― flappy bird, Saturday, 21 December 2019 06:37 (four years ago) link
Ah
Anybody seen Masques? Released in 1987.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
It's okay, kind of tedious though. This Man Must Die is a better version of the Trojan horse murderer sorta thing
― flappy bird, Monday, 8 June 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
I was gonna say Masques is too long but it's only 100 minutes. oh my...
how encouraging!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
lol is it on the criterion channel? they need to put up La Rupture and La Ceremonie, ya know, his GOOD movies...
― flappy bird, Monday, 8 June 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
I'm receiving La Ceremonie, which I haven't watched since 1997, from the library tomorrow.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
I saw masques recently and thought it was one of his better films (that don't feature huppert) no ceremonie on obviously but he's done much much worse
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 9 June 2020 09:19 (three years ago) link
He has, like the two films he made just before Masques: Chicken with Vinegar and Inspector Lavardin. both perfect examples of Chabrol at his plodding worst, uninteresting visually, too many characters, and just inert for long stretches. Inspector Lavardin is a notch better than Chicken with Vinegar; despite Jean Rabier shooting both, Inspector Lavardin actually has some interesting camera work and inserts that elevate the typically dull proceedings. Better cast, too (Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Poiret as IL). Although Chicken with Vinegar does have Stephane Audran and Michel Boquet, but they are woefully underused. Inspector Lavardin doesn't even show up in CWV until 45 minutes or so. The second film is just tighter, and it reminded me of Chabrol's second to last film, A Girl Cut in Two, and parts of it clearly presage Masques, which, again, is a much better film.
I look forward to being able to go through Chabrol's films again, I've seen 35 in the last year and the most acclaimed stretch, 68-72, is mostly a blur since I started with it.
― flappy bird, Monday, 15 June 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
Rewatched L’enfer tonight for the umpteenth time. Fantastic editing. It is a great horror film.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 11 July 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
The little homage to Buñuel’s “El” - Paul’s wobbly walk as his insanity goes full on - is a wonderful touch I’d never noticed before.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 11 July 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
Yes. You guys should watch the doc about the unfinished original.
― Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 July 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
Have seen it. It’s great but I really love Chabrol’s approach to that material. He supposedly truly disliked what he’d seen of Clouzot’s preproduction experiments.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 11 July 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
Right. The Clouzot stuff is best seen at one step removed, through the doc.
― Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 July 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
L'Enfer is horrifying. the English title, TORMENT, isn't nearly as good as its literal translation, Hell
― flappy bird, Sunday, 12 July 2020 05:56 (three years ago) link
I mean this in a good way of course.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 12 July 2020 05:57 (three years ago) link