ILX All-Time Film and Morbsies Poll: RESULTS Thread for ILX's Favorite Movies, Films, Cinema, Flicks & Moving Pictures

Crap, that's a Morbs silver too.

Absolute textbook gabbneb in those quotes lol

This is the one Kubrick I'm happy to see place. mark s has pointed out that, while Kubrick in general is seen as cold and distant, this film is very sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY-XDQN6ipE

Barry Lyndon is pretty entertaining, Morbs is right, and Kubrick's fetish for composition maybe at its zenith. I know this is a boring complaint, but I do think Ryan O'Neal hurts it. He's OK, but a better actor could have turned that into a great performance.

It is more fun than Eyes Wide Shut.

This is Kubrick's best film. Paths of Glory also good but no need for that or anything else of his to place. That is all.

Patrick Magee is so good in this.

https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/029-the-green-ray.jpg

29. THE GREEN RAY (Eric Rohmer, 1986, France) [900.88 points; 8 votes; Morbs silver]
S&S: 265 | TSPDT: 312 | BOXD: DNP

MORBS SEZ: "Summer (Le Rayon Vert) is transcendent, his best of the last 25 years … gabbneb gtfo"

Rohmer is life tbh
― hell is auteur people (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 18, 2018 8:42 AM

I finally saw The Green Ray 💚
― flappy bird, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 11:09 PM

based on the evidence (Pauline on the Beach, Summer, Boyfriends and Girlfriends) the '80s were Rohmer's best decade.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, August 29, 2016 5:57 PM

would recommend THE GREEN RAY to sell anyone on Rohmer.
― Chris L, Thursday, January 18, 2018 8:41 AM

Le Rayon Vert has to be the Rohmer film I enjoyed watching the most the very first time. I watched it when trapped in my house for seven days during a freeze. The character seemed annoyingly neurotic to me when the film began but I quickly sympathized and understood her issues and came to like that character more and more.
― *tera, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 2:32 PM

"Le Rayon Vert" (Summer) is a bit sub-par IMHO and probably the weakest of the 'Comédies et Proverbes' cycle, my favorite of which is "L'ami de mon amie" (can't remember the English title, The Friend of my Friend?).
― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Wednesday, August 17, 2005 8:48 AM

'green ray' is hella dull
― henry miller, Monday, January 10, 2005 8:56 AM

Green Ray's wonderful. Love the story about how they had to wait a whole year to get the titular image on film because it didn't happen the year they were actually filming.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:30 AM

Oh Henry miller where are you now

Dunno if it's one of the greatest films of all time but it's 100% got some of the greatest fits.

Wow, I didn't expect this.

Basically my favourite film ever. It makes me so happy.

It's really good, and probably his best run of films.

This had a nice ending, but basically I don't get Rohmer. I liked La Collectioneuse and the two historical films he did in the mid 70s best.

Big, pleasant surprise. Well done.

lettuce is a friend

Rohmer is hit and miss for me. In fact I watched four adventures of reinette and mirabelle last night and it really didn't work apart from the first section, the blue hour, and that was quite similar to the green ray, which is among my 5 favourite films of all time, finding magic in transcending the quotidian

Aww

more than the sum of it's parts doesn't do it justice, it's a work of pure conjuring. seems to restore me everytime i see it. the most gorgeous 16mm photography too.

And I'll repeat: Rohmer really got going in the 1980s.

Full Moon in Paris is fascinating for taking place when Paris itself was shifting into '80s mode.

boyfriends and girlfriends is indeed a banger. moments where the whole film seems to exist for rohmer to play with colour blocking using clothing.

Delphine is one of the most relatable characters in film to me - her reticence and indecisiveness, the way she shuts down or opens up depending on how she thinks she's perceived by the people around her, the hilarious awkwardness of the vegetarianism scene. Marie Rivière conveys it all perfectly.

The simplicity of scale is wonderful too, how much you can accomplish with such a basic setup.

Love Barry Lyndon, it and the shining were the only Kubrick I liked until I saw the early noirs recently

Rivière unafraid to be churlish too.

In addition to everything else it's a very funny film about Ireland in quotes

I prefer Hong sangsoo to rohmer

i haven't seen the green ray. let's look up a description.

"A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation."

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Noted.

I prefer Hong sangsoo to rohmer

― plax (ico), Tuesday,

Interesting comparison. More goes on in a Hong film as they also chatter about nothing.

It's funnier than that description makes it sound. Basically a series of aborted attempts to take a vacation when nowhere is good enough.

Judging by the list so far I definitely see how they could lose you at "woman."

Why watch a film when you can read a description?

There's action, too! She invents a green ray, which she uses to secure world domination as a super-villain.

re hong / rohmer. rohmer is def his daddy, but i think main difference is where rohmer was exploring the way cinema could advance existing literary traditions of narrative, particularly a sort of 19th c philosophical novel, hong is wrapped up in new possibilities of narrative engagement that can only exist in the moving image, and having the philosophy embodied in the structure rather than content.

I've been slow to check out Hong for the petty reason that so many of the protagonists seem to work in the film business, but I guess I should finally remedy that.

he's great

devvvine’s comment about hong / rohmer seems otm to me

<<"A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation."

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Judging by the list so far I definitely see how they could lose you at "woman.">>

Ha! Please let me know of the existence of any films that fit the description of nothing but "a lonely Parisian woman."

This reminds me of one of my favorite Simpsons exchanges.

Homer: You can always write a depressing Broadway play of some kind.
Lisa: You think so?
Marge: Sure! It could be a story about people coming to terms with things.

more movies about lonely Parisian women plz

Sorry all, Zing is refusing my post of #28. Gonna be an hour before I get back in front of a desktop.

is it 'Jobs'?

well since there's time to kill...

S tier: green ray, tree mayor and the mediatheque, l'amie de mon amie, marquis of o, aviators wife, last night at mauds, perceval
A tier: tale of autumn, reinette and mirabelle, love in the afternoon, claire's knee, suzannes career, pauline on the beach, astree & celadon
B tier: triple agent, tale of winter, tale of summer full moon in paris, rendezvous in paris
C tier: the lady and the duke, a good marriage, sign of leo, collectioneuse, tale of springtime, bakery girl

and appearance as 'the balzacien' in out 1 is, of course, essential

What does the S in S tier mean? I know it's good, but...

^^^Same Question. Shay d'oovre?

star, i've always assumed. idk it's a video game thing

Smasterpiece.

<<star, i've always assumed. idk it's a video game thing>>

Wait - what does that mean? A star is better than an A?

The Hague

Meh

Sound, Solid

Good to Great