Dreyer:The Parson's Widow (1920)Leaves from Satan's Book (1921)Mikael (1924)Master of the House (1925)The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)Vampyr (1932)Day of Wrath (1943)Ordet (1955)Gertrud (1964)
Bresson:Angels of the Streets (1943)The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (1945)Diary of a Country Priest (1950)A Man Escaped (1956)Pickpocket (1959)Au hasard Balthazar (1966)Mouchette (1967)Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)Lancelot of the Lake (1974)The Devil, Probably (1977)L'Argent (1983)
Ozu:I Was Born, But… (1932)A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)Late Spring (1949)Early Summer (1951)Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)Tokyo Story (1953)Early Spring (1956)Equinox Flower (1958)Floating Weeds (1959)Good Morning (1959)An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Schrader:Blue Collar (1978)Hardcore (1979)American Gigolo (1980)Cat People (1982)Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)Light of Day (1987)Patty Hearst (1988)The Comfort of Strangers (1990)Light Sleeper (1991)Affliction (1997)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 20 October 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
Dreyer: The Passion of Joan of Arc
Ozu: Tokyo Story/Floating Weeds
Bresson:Pickpocket
Destroy:
Pretty much everything Schrader isn't notorious/famous for, with the possible exception of Light Sleeper.
― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 07:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 07:49 (twenty years ago) link
Life-changing? Is he exaggerating?
See the film.
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 15:41 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:38 (twenty years ago) link
― PVC (peeveecee), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 23:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Dallas Yertle (Dallas Yertle), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 00:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link
I try to treat my parents better than I have done in the past. Seriously.
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 12:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 November 2003 22:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 March 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 4 March 2006 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link
see A Man Escaped, wow.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 March 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 4 March 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Brooklyn retro for Dreyer; JRo in Artforum:
http://www.artforum.com/film/id=22246
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 March 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
The library finally got a copy of the Criterion version of Gertrud. Yes?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
d thomson speaks v highly of it in his biographical dictionary, but i found it a bit of a snooze the one time i saw it in a cinema - lots of long, long takes and tracking shots and repressed emotions and so on.
saw day of wrath again v recently and that has aged much better, imho - really shows off dreyer's genius for capturing all the emotions/feelings flitting across the faces of his v closely scrutinised subjects.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 24 May 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Gertrud was a snooze – enervated Bergman.
Yeah, Day of Wrath scared the hell out of me when I saw it five years ago on crappy VHS. Now that the library stocks the Criterion edition, I might check it out again.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Given how my tastes in movies (and, well, everything) have devolved in the last five years or so, there's no way I'm RESCREENING Gertrud anytime soon. I'll just keep calling it a masterpiece.
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
No reason to watch Gertrud when most of the horror movies you like convey existential dread more convincingly.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
But how many so successfully convey the smug masochism of preemptive sexual lobotomization?
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Gertrud was a snooze
i have to agree. i know dreyer is meant to be a master but stagy acting and that looking off into the distance while speaking reminded me of that bit in "love and death" when the characters say "wheat....wheat"
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Wednesday, 25 December 2013 03:02 (ten years ago) link
Saw Schrader's The Comfort of Strangers in 35mm tonight, adapted by Pinter from Ian McEwan's novel. It is WACK. And maybe the best of PS's violent bisexual fetish movies.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 04:12 (nine years ago) link
https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/11/22/with-the-passion-of-joan-of-arc-carl-theodor-dreyer-writes-history-with-fire/
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
American Gigolo might've been better as a silent; looks great and sleek, silly whenever anyone talks for too long. Was that Mozart piece at the end used in Pickpocket?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 July 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
“Don’t get me started on Brian De Palma. I re-watched ‘Redacted’ last night because (I) thought that given total artistic freedom he could reach for the stars. And he did. But the stars were beyond his reach. The script is trite, it is weak. That’s because Brian is trite, Brian is artistically weak. Skate fast on thin ice. That’s his story. That’s his con.”
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/06/paul-shrader-brian-de-palma-trite-artistically-weak-1202154370/
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 July 2019 15:48 (five years ago) link
I watched AG again over Memorial Day weekend; it looked better than it ever had.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 July 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
Coming December 10th!Blue Collar (1978) with optional English subtitles• Audio Commentary with Co-Writer/Director Paul Schrader and Journalist Maitland McDonagh• Theatrical TrailerFrom Paul Schrader, the legendary director of Hardcore, American Gigolo & Cat People! pic.twitter.com/4jVDdytJmR— KLStudioClassics (@KLStudioClassic) September 26, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 September 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
Gonna watch The Card Collector tomorrow. Catching up with his approach by (re)watchingMishima, though I dread its Glassware.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 September 2021 20:29 (three years ago) link
have you seen Light Sleeper, al? one of my favs
― flopson, Saturday, 18 September 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
I saw it again last year. The casting's odd but it works.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 September 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
*The Card Counter
at one point during lockdown my gf and i were watching all the films in schrader’s transcendental film book. watched a bunch of ozu and bresson, don’t think we ever made it to dreyer. the two that really stuck with me are ‘a man escaped’ and ‘diary of a country priest’. both totally unique and genius. also so different from each other. my fav ozu is actually one that iirc isn’t mentioned in the book; ‘good morning’, about two kids on a quest to watch tv. i’m not a huge fan of ozu but i like how cozily domestic low-stakes his movies are. im often in the mood for that sort of thing, so i’ve watched like a dozen of his films and would watch another at the drop of a hat
― flopson, Saturday, 18 September 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
The quality of the farts is what matters.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 September 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
I prefer Dreyer farts
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Sunday, 19 September 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link
really enjoyed The Card Collector. not quite as good as First Reformed, but less of a fall off than i was expecting
― flopson, Thursday, 23 September 2021 05:22 (three years ago) link
somewhat disappointed that it isn't about a guy getting banned from zoom poker nights
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:31 (three years ago) link