French Cinema

[oneflewover]

La Grande Bouffe? I think someone has already mentioned it.

Thanks, that's the one and thanks MsT should have looked closer. Am I strange in that I remembered the food more than the sex?

 

[Leica]

I don't think you are, there are similarities between the two.

 

[Zinedine*]

My favourites are

the 3 colours trilogy (especially white)
Delicatessan
Amelie
La Ville est Tranquille
Swimming Pool (english/french)

 

[Taxamo Welf]

I feel a strong sense of de ja vu from your thread on french cinema...

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=3571705&postcount=48




EDIT: As far as Bergman is concerned, do you consider a film's 'nationality' to be the same as the director's?

i know i just found that! thats terrifying that YOU remember that and i don't. Higher education is worse for your memory than hard drugs clearly...

 

[charlie mowbray]

Vigo did die of TB, although it didn't help that he was practically starving when he died. So his
Zero de Conduite; and L'Atalante plus his A Propos de Nice
Anything by Melville but especially Le Cercle Rouge
Truffaut's Les Quatre Cents Coups (not keen on Jules et Jim, think it's overrated)

Yes, Renoir's Popular Front film Le Crime du Monsieur Lange
Le Homme du train (can't remember who directed it) but Johnny Hallyday is in it

 

[Taxamo Welf]

Great new french film

The Butterfly looks like a really nice feel ood film. Check out the trailer

 

[trashpony]

I would also add to these recommendations

Diva
and
Huit Femmes - how can you not love a film with Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart and Fanny Ardent in it?

 

[anfield]

The 400 Blows is very good - about rebellious youth etc. Excellent acting from the lad.

 

[Dhimmi]

Anything with Vincent Cassel in it.

 

[laptop]

Et, pour un p'tit divertissement, 'y a toujours 36° le matin


Q'est ce c'est que ça s'appelle en Anglais? C'est naturellement plus sexy dans son propre langue...

 

[charlie mowbray]

The 400 Blows is very good - about rebellious youth etc. Excellent acting from the lad.

Shame his film career after that was no great shakes

 

[Leica]

Last night I saw at the cinema a black and white film from last year called Les amants réguliers by Philippe Garrel, which got the Silver Lion for directing in Venice 2005. The pace is rather slow and it is a bit long (three hours) but the first hour consists of amazing seuences showing the situation on the streets of Paris in May 1968 from the perspective of the students.

 

[Reno]

Shame his film career after that was no great shakes

Whoa, that really upsets me. Let me just list a few of Truffaut's films post The 400 Blows which I think are great shakes:

Shoot the Pianist
Jules & Jim
The Soft Skin
The Bride Wore Black
The Wild Boy
Anne & Muriel (aka Two English Girls and the Continent)
Day for Night
The Story of Adele H.
Small Change
The Green Room
The Woman Next Door
Finally Sunday

Personally I'm not that much of a fan of the later Antoine Donel films, Fahrenheit 451, Mississippi Mermaid, The Man Who Loved Women and The Last Metro, but they also have their many admirers.

Truffaut was a great director who combined a precise and economic style comparable to Ernst Lubitsch with tender humanism. With a single cut he could convey more than most directors can with pages of dialogue and fancy camera work.

 

[Leica]

The above post is just perfect. I think I love you

 

[May Kasahara]

La Reine Margot - so rich it might make you puke historical drama, with Isabelle Adjani luminous and fierce as Margot. Sex, filth, bloody murder, great love and pure evil - superb.

I really love Cyrano de Bergerac as well, gloriously romantic (if you like that sort of thing) and witty.

 

[Reno]

The above post is just perfect. I think I love you

Ditto

 

[Leica]

There's not enough pictures in this thread so here's one from Les amants réguliers.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Diva was great.

Amelie is the biggest piece of irritating twee shit ever.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Les Diaboliques

Hitchcock learnt a lot from that film....

 

[Brockway]

There's not enough pictures in this thread so here's one from Les amants réguliers.

Les amants réguliers is not bad but it's nothing compared to Gérard Kikoïne's Parties Fines.

 

[ViolentPanda]

La Reine Margot - so rich it might make you puke historical drama, with Isabelle Adjani luminous and fierce as Margot. Sex, filth, bloody murder, great love and pure evil - superb.

I absolutely love that film, even the sick incesty bits. First saw it on Channel 4 years ago, and got it on video as soon as it was released over here.

 

[Reno]

Hitchcock learnt a lot from that film....

It's the other way round of course. Clouzot used to get referred to as the French Hitchcock and was very much influenced by him (as were several other French directors like Chabrol and Truffaut). The two directors admired each other a great deal, but Hitchcock invented the type of suspense thrillers Clouzot was making and had been making films for twenty years by the time Clouzot started to direct. Hitchcock tried to get the rights to Les Diaboliques, but Clouzot beat him to it. After that its writers wrote the novel Vertigo was eventually based on especially for Hitchcock.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Mon oncle fills me with fear and painful joy.

I've had la hane on DVD for about three years and still haven't got around to watcing it.

Oh, and don't watch 'wasabi', it's shit despite reno.

 

[Sid's Snake]

( off the top of my head. No particular order)

1.) Pierrot le Fou: Godard
2.) La Regle du Jeu: Renoir
3.) La Nuit Americaine: Truffaut
4.) Ma Nuit Chez Maud: Rohmer
5.) La Belle Noiseuse: Rivette
6.) Cleo de 9 a 5: Vada
7) Le Feu Follet: Malle
8) Paris Nous Apparient: Rivette
9) Buffet Froid: Blier
10) Les Valsueuse: Blier
11) Le Mepris: Godard
12) Le Diner des Cons: Francois Pignon
13) Bout de Souffe: Godard
14) Argent d' Poche: Truffaut
15) La Collectioneuse: Rohmer
16) Bondu Save par les eaux: Renoir
17) Monseuir Hulot's Holiday: Tati
18) Un Coeur de Hiver
19) A Nos Amours: Piaget
20) Une Homme Condamme a Mort Echappe: Bresson
21) Pickpocket: Bresson
22) Au Hasard Baltazar: Bresson
23) A Partie du Campagne: Renoir
24) Le Bete Humaine: Renoir
25) La Grande Illusion: Renoir
26) JLG a JLG: Godard
27) Irma Vep
28) 400 Coups: Truffaut
29) Tirer sur la Pianiste: Truffaut
30) 5 Women? ( 1964) Chabrol
31) La Ceremonie: Chabrol
32) La Boucher: Chabrol
33) A Souffe du Coeur: Malle
34) La Placard: Veber
35) Sans Loi Sans Toit: Vada
36) A Traverse Paris: Gabin et al
37) La Samouri: Melville
38) Weekend: Godard
39) Jules et Jim: Truffaut
40) La Humanite: Forget
41 ) La Mellieur Facon du Marcher
42) Serie Noir
43) Coup de Torchon : Tavinere
44) La Maman et la Putain: Eustache
45) La Atlante : Vigo
46) Le Journal d’un cure de campagne : Bresson
47) Le Gout des Autres : Jauoi etc
48) Smoking/Non Smoking : Resnais
49) La Vie Reve des Anges : Zonka
50) Alphaville : Godard

 

[Nicsi]

OH! I love French cinema!

my personal favourites (and this is limited by what I've not seen yet...):

L'Appartement
Le Pact Des Loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf)
Venus Beauté
Le Clavet (the Closet!)

Vincent Cassel and Monica Belluci are in a lot of films together... I think their marriage means they have an excellent on screen chemistry. Cassel is probably my favourite French actor.

 

[Reno]

Cassel is probably my favourite French actor.

Same here. My favourite film of his is probably Sur mes lèvres (Read My Lips) with the equally fantastic Emmanuelle Devos.

 

[isvicthere?]

Un chien andalou *
Les enfants du paradis
Un chapeau de paille italien *
Entr'acte *
La grande illusion
Les valseuses
Merci la vie
A bout de souffle
Le coquille et le clergyman *
L'age d'or *
Au revoir les enfants
Man bites dog (Belgian, but in French!)
The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie

(* wholly or mostly silent, so not many language learning opps)

 

[Leica]

Read My Lips

That's a good photo.