A. I've only seen "Murmur of The Heart," and I liked it a lot.B. "Zazie dans le métro" will be coming to my town in December, and "Elevator To the Gallows" may come later.C. Criterion is fixing to launch a major DVD reissue campaign next year.
― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)
Which titles?
― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)
Rumor has it these will come later:MILOU EN MAI (aka May Fools) AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS PLACE DE LA REPUBLIQUE ZAZIE DANS LE METRO THE FIRE WITHIN CALCUTTA HUMAN, TOO HUMAN GOD'S COUNTRY ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS LES AMANTS
― Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Thursday, 13 October 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)
haven't seen many of the other ones. am very interested to see calcutta and the other docs.
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)
― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 13 October 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)
― Phil Dellio (j.j. hunsecker), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)
― Gold star for robotboy! (Chris Piuma), Saturday, 15 October 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)
― Gold star for robotboy! (Chris Piuma), Saturday, 15 October 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)
― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 15 October 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)
― Gold star for robotboy! (Chris Piuma), Saturday, 15 October 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 21 January 2007 05:51 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/004780.html
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)
I've seen Murmur and Elevator to the Gallows and loved them both. I really need to watch the Fire Within.
― oscar, Thursday, 25 October 2007 01:58 (eighteen years ago)
last two weeks:
MURMUR OF THE HEART LACOMBE, LUCIEN AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS GOD'S COUNTRY ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS MY DINNER WITH ANDRE ATLANTIC CITY VANYA
i do not think there has ever been another director who managed to light his scenes as lusciously and sensually as malle -- and i think if anyone could their career might just be made by it.
― remy bean, Monday, 2 June 2008 18:28 (seventeen years ago)
He still doesn't get his due, does he? David Thomson sniffs when his name's mentioned.
Criterion recently released his eighties documentaries; I'm watching one of them, God's Country (1985), about a small Minnesotan town adapting to Reaganomics.
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 October 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)
betting he could've put a light-hearted spin on the mackenzie phillips story
― velko, Monday, 5 October 2009 23:07 (sixteen years ago)
Caught The Thief of Paris on This the night before last. So good. Jean-Claude Carrière co-wrote the screenplay. Jean-Paul Belmondo stars against a great cast of actresses: Geneviève Bujold, Marie Dubois, Françoise Fabian, Marlène Jobert, and Bernadette Lafont.
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:06 (sixteen years ago)
The My Dinner With Andre DVD (Criterion, of course) is quite entertaining. Gregory and Shawn, interviewed by Noah Baumbach, remain great loquacious hams.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 February 2010 01:09 (sixteen years ago)
Au Revoir Les Enfants is an absolutely prefect thing. It's truly amazing.
Don't try to tell me otherwise because i'm not listening.
― jed_, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 00:18 (fifteen years ago)
i gotta watch that. i've seen murmur of the heart and it's one of my favorites ever, so i got that trilogy from criterion and haven't cracked it because i'm distracted by the netflicks
― harbl, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 00:19 (fifteen years ago)
well i watched the first 40 min once, don't know why i didn't finish
just watched the fire within & was kind of bowled over by it, by how crowded with glorious detail it was. like when alain is pawing through the piles of incredible clothes in his room (that room!) he picks out a pair of of cuff links that look like coils of golden rope. or the banter at lunch about françoise hardy that alain wld have kept up with teen idols - so perfect.
but mostly the camera has a way of observing things thats so tender & silent & accepting that it makes the film really pleasurable to watch. was thinking it was on some antonioni shit but idk really just it was ~lovely~ also the score was p fukken great too
― coining (Lamp), Friday, 14 May 2010 22:20 (fifteen years ago)
also kinda read alain is gay? like is inability to "connect" sexually with women esp lydia at the start & his worry over being a terrible lover. also strangely charged moments like his encounter with the young man in the bathroom after taking a drink, followed by the gay (?) dudes talking abt how handsome he was
― coining (Lamp), Friday, 14 May 2010 22:22 (fifteen years ago)
Is that 'Feu Follet' in French?
― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Friday, 14 May 2010 22:30 (fifteen years ago)
yep!
― coining (Lamp), Friday, 14 May 2010 22:31 (fifteen years ago)
That is such a sustained piece of early 60's French style.
― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Friday, 14 May 2010 22:33 (fifteen years ago)
Terrific film -- I saw it again last month. It's got that early sixties fascination with American chic.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 May 2010 22:34 (fifteen years ago)
haha all the dudes are dressed like 50s ivy leaguers & all the women are dressed like high style parisians. the way lydia's blouse matches the lining to her jacket & the way she shrugs it on killed me. also alain reading (babylon revisited!) in an oversized cardigan & black-framed reading glasses
― coining (Lamp), Friday, 14 May 2010 22:40 (fifteen years ago)
Do you think that Bruce Springsteen based the song "Atlantic City" on Louis Malle's film of the same name? There's a part where a hippie girl's drug dealer boyfriend is killed by thugs, and she comforts herself about his death by talking about reincarnation, convincing herself that he will come back in another form... it reminds me of Springsteen's line, "Everything that dies, someday comes back," as a way for the character in the song to reassure his girlfriend that if he dies doing his "favor" for someone, that it will be okay.
― jeevves, Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:01 (fifteen years ago)
hm, wiki sez theyre unrelated but there are certainly similarities
i thought the film was really great. love the gradual development of lancasters character & how we're meted out info abt his past. & sarandon is a nice counterpart, sortof the opposite personality of his in a lotta ways
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 27 July 2013 17:02 (twelve years ago)
the way lydia's blouse matches the lining to her jacket & the way she shrugs it on killed me.
^ this was incredible omg
felt somewhat analogous to the dardennes 2 days 1 night imo w/ alain as a more hopeless detestable figure than cotillard
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 21 May 2015 00:17 (ten years ago)