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Search: La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc, even though the director was Danish.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 24 February 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

La fille sur le Pont, Vivre sa vie...

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

― Genevieve, Monday, 24 February 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, I wouldn't really want to see Dielman again. But it was great watching it once. I won't say any more.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

More search: Jules and Jim, Shoot the Piano Player, Small Change, La Lectrice

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 . . .

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

that wouldn't be the island of montreal you're talking about, would it?

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha no, but you do have a wonderful namesake.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Good to know.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pas l'ile de France?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I know 0.001 about French cinema, and haven't seen other Rohmer, but I think Pauline at the Beach is worth seeing once.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

French films are hella overrated but Je t'aime Je t'aime (Resnais again) isn't bad. Let's watch Max, Mon Amour (Oshima). Time Out was a dud out of proportion to its good press.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 09:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

fave godard: vivre sa vie, bande a part. hate: weekend (would rather have my eyes pecked out by pigeons than watch that again.)
second: le grand illusion, le jour se leve. also love: le souffle au couer, les valseuses, alice et martin, jeux interdits, le rayon vert. also, am i alone in finding amelie not just great, but also incredibly dark and depressing (tho the ending is happy i guess)? surely you can't hate something because of the arrangement of features on someone's face? i think her performance is wonderful.

― jeanne picot (jeanne picot), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/medias/nmedia/00/02/48/75/ph1.jpg

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fuck yes, "la lectrice", a wonderful thing. And Peppermint Soda is great, Genevieve.

Other gems I've remembered - I loved "les amants du pont neuf", (although Carax's "Polo X" is in my top ten worst films ever made). "la petite voleuse" (wonderful Charlotte G), "l'appartement"....

I remember "le grand chemin" being a kind of French "My life as a dog" but I was young and rose-tintedly Francophilic when I saw it so I could be wrong.

― Tag (Tag), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

although Carax's "Polo X" is in my top ten worst films ever made

Oh no! That film is extraordinary.

Ed needs to post more pictures of Jacques Tati.

Did anyone catch this exhibit in Paris or Rotterdam? See here for some nice photos.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

Search : anything by Bertrand Tavernier.

yes. esp. que la fête commence

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 13 April 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw Le Fils this week and is the best film of the year. so far.

― Erik, Sunday, 13 April 2003 11:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I see...you have a cabbage...."

"......oui."

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 13 April 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

I won't delve into the classics, that would take too much time, but here's some hits and misses from the nineties and the naughties. For a couple of them, I've also included links for my reviews in the Internet Movie Database.

SEARCH:

Political films
La Haine
Ressources humaines
Seul contre tous

Action
Dobermann
Léon

Drama
L'Humanité
http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0197569-12
Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train
Corto Maltese: La cour secrète des Arcanes http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0259134-1
La Pianiste
L'Appartement
La Classe de neige

Comedy
Drôle de Félix
Delicatessen
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Mortel transfert
Du poil sous les roses
Pourquoi pas moi?

Art Stuff
La Belle noiseuse
Clubbed to Death
Beau travail
http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0209933-9

DESTROY:

Art Shit
Sombre
Irréversible
Trouble Every Day

Bad Drama
Post coitum animal triste
Parfait amour!
Rien sur Robert

Stupid Action
Les Mille merveilles de l'univers
Les Rivières pourpres
Le Pacte des loups (the worst French film ever?)
http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0237534-48

Few brief recommendations: Ressources humaines, a leftist film about a factory worker father and a lawyer son, is one of the films of the nineties. Dobermann is probably the most nihilistic and brutal action film ever made this side of The Atlantic. La Pianiste, the story about a sexually frustrated piano teacher, is extremely difficult to watch, but definitely worth the view. Mortel transfert is a Kafkaesque black comedy about a psychoanalyst and his dead patient. La Belle noiseuse, a four-hour story about the making of one painting, is the slowest film ever, but also one of the most hypnotic.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 14 April 2003 08:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

rafifi

― cameron, Monday, 14 April 2003 10:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Search: The Dream Life of Angels

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 April 2003 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

I liked that film.

destroy: the UK cut of 'a ma souer', in order to be granted an 18 certificate, loses 1m 30s off the end of the film, somewhat obscuring the power of anais' final claim that he didn't rape her.

'la maman et la putain' is showing in the cinema here today.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 3 October 2004 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Odd that this thread appeared today - I watched Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie this morning. I liked it a lot, actually. I think I might watch Man Bites Dog next.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 3 October 2004 08:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Les Enfants Du Paradis / Children of Paradise!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 3 October 2004 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Ok, not French but still, saw 'Les Invasions Barbares' the other night. Despite the weird - kinda cheesy cliches, it moved me quite a bit (might have sth to do with my own worries about my father...)

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Sunday, 3 October 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Confidences trop intimes Ignore with extreme prejudice. The film, that is.

― EComplex (EComplex), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Tell me more about Ophuls.

― Tous Les Garcons S'Appellent Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

he was viennese

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Rien sur Robert

oh haha! i loved this movie. it had a hilarious line about abal sex.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

anal.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link

S: Chris Marker (especially everything he ever did), early Michel Gondry videos and The Transporter

D: I dunno, I hate to be the 838253rd person to diss Amelie. But I guess I just did.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I've seen Jeanne Dielman a third time since my earlier posts on this thread.

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

and of course it was just as great, riveting, beautiful, etc.

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link

SEARCH FRENCH NOIR/GANGSTER:

Jean-Pierre Melville - Bob le Flameur, Le Samurai, Le Cercle Rouge

Jacques Becker- Touches pas au Grisbi

Jules Dassin - Rififi

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link

tell me more about Ophuls and the films he made in france.

― Tous Les Garcons S'Appellent Little Lord Travolta (nordicskilla), Monday, 4 October 2004 01:46 (nineteen years ago) link

jeanne dielman is belgian (albeit, in french)

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link

all of ophul's post-american films were made in france. lola montes was i believe a french-german coproduction.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 4 October 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link

search: sur mes levres, tous les garcons s'appellent patrick

― youn, Monday, 4 October 2004 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link

search: hiroshima mon amour, vivre sa vie, cleo from 5 to 7, rules of the game, EVERYTHING TATI, rififi was good, children of paradise...
four of those films are in my top ten of all time. bande a part is good too, i am guilty of liking le mepris too.

destroy: irreversible (piece of trash)

― todd swiss (eliti), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link

French film as a whole just begs to be put on an overrated list, even though there are plenty of good French films.

I like Truffaut flicks.
Destroy Goddard.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I would like to go to a Paris cafe and drink all the drinks that they drink in Tous les garcons s'appellent Patrick, but not on one occasion.

― youn, Monday, 4 October 2004 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked Aime ton Pere.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 4 October 2004 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link

god french cinema is so great.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link

that was an actual address to god, a thank you.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 4 October 2004 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link

i won't be held responsible for emmanuelle

― god (amateurist), Monday, 4 October 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Search:
LeTrou
Rules of the Game

Destroy:
People walking on the beach in abject silence, then becoming naked and weeping.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 4 October 2004 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Search: Jean Kenneth Longueur's Le Fromage Grand

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 07:58 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

http://www.francecinema.it/polar/gabin1b.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I like it better when you can see her cul.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

there is something sublime about that still. i mean, you're never in doubt that gabin will be able to resist bardot, but at the same time... those legs!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link

It's all in the arch of her foot, I think.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link

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