Your favorite French Film

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Thu May 12, 2011 9:55 pm

Positive A wrote:Watched Le Samourai today. Absolutely loved it.

Is this Delon at his finest? If no, then where?

Eh, I personally think its his best... He's real good in the ones darkwing mentioned but he's just as good or better in samourai.

Comedy Quaddafi · Post by **Comedy Quaddafi** » Fri May 13, 2011 7:12 am

Positive A wrote:Watched Le Samourai today. Absolutely loved it.

Is this Delon at his finest? If no, then where?

Trust me on this one

Amazing movie. It's different from Samourai, I'd say it's a psychological thriller. Really packs a strong punch.

Comedy Quaddafi · Post by **Comedy Quaddafi** » Fri May 13, 2011 7:27 am

This French-Canadian flick will leave you speechless.

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There's just no way it's not one of the most genious movies I've seen. Really hope it receives it's due attention.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbc ... 984/-1/RSS Ebert likes it but his review is fairly poor IMO, not sure if he was paying attention.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:25 am

Went completely out of my comfort-zone and watched Army of Shadows last night. Fucking awesome.

Funky Butler · Post by **Funky Butler** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:13 pm

Id like give some shouts out to the dudes that blew shit up in the 20s and 30s: vigo, epstein, gance, l'herbier etc

The editing and camera shit looks so fresh its amazing they were doing it 90 years ago.

Positive A · Post by **Positive A** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:42 pm

Comedy Quaddafi wrote:This French-Canadian flick will leave you speechless.

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There's just no way it's not one of the most genious movies I've seen. Really hope it receives it's due attention.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbc ... 984/-1/RSS Ebert likes it but his review is fairly poor IMO, not sure if he was paying attention.

Said it before, but this film is incredible.

aleph · Post by **aleph** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:09 pm

Funky Butler wrote:Id like give some shouts out to the dudes that blew shit up in the 20s and 30s: vigo, epstein, gance, l'herbier etc

The editing and camera shit looks so fresh its amazing they were doing it 90 years ago.

Just saw Zero de Conduite for the first time. His rep is more than justified

Also caught all but two films from a complete HG Clouzot retro last month. Not a bad one in the bunch. Le Corbeau is the shit.

Comedy Quaddafi · Post by **Comedy Quaddafi** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:17 am

Yep. Incendies is a perfect film.
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Re: French cinema. Someting funny (not funny at all but whatever) I noticed while taking an elective course on film, and meeting a lot of filmfreaks for the first time, is that they all love French cinema but only watch stuff from the 60's and 70's, as if France stopped making good movies since then. Guess it's more hip and college-sexy to be acquainted with that era. Was getting all blank stares namedropping stuff and had my own ignorance exposed as well. I still think their movies are superior to movies from anywhere else, from what I watch.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:23 am

Would be hilarious if you brought in Martyrs and made the entire film class watch it.

Comedy Quaddafi · Post by **Comedy Quaddafi** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:13 am

One of the teachers of the curriculum wrote an essay on feminism in Martyrs and made her class watch it.

She had an entire elective course about "final girls" for a whole semester. Made them watch Frontiere(s), Descent, Antichrist too, among others.

http://www.sam.sdu.dk/study/fagbasen/fa ... ag_id=6170

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:19 am

That's great, man. It's all in Danish however.

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:01 am

http://rendezvouswithfrenchcinema.com/ is going on this month 3/1-3/11 for all who are interested.

HomeSkillet · Post by **HomeSkillet** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:14 am

Much love for the movies in this thread, but don't forget Man Bites Dog, a psycopath masterpiece

Positive A · Post by **Positive A** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:19 pm

Anyone watch Le Havre? I watched it last night. Very sweet film.

Not "sweet" in the dude bro way.

Comedy Quaddafi · Post by **Comedy Quaddafi** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:03 pm

HomeSkillet wrote:Much love for the movies in this thread, but don't forget Man Bites Dog, a psycopath masterpiece

Belgium. Great movie though.

aleph · Post by **aleph** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 2:42 pm

Versive wrote:http://rendezvouswithfrenchcinema.com/ is going on this month 3/1-3/11 for all who are interested.

I almost went to see the midnight screening of Jean Rollin's The Shiver of Vampires. He's apparently getting a lot of attn these days. Anyone seen his stuff? Recommendations?

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 2:54 pm

Probably because he died not too long ago.

Only seen two of Rollin's films. Liked Requiem For A Vampire quite a bit, it's not a film most film heads would appreciate though. Much like Jess Franco, they've made so many movies, it's difficult to find the perfect gateway film in their respective bodies of work.

aleph · Post by **aleph** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:17 pm

Cheers, yeah it's hard to know where to start altho Dave Kehr made a case for both Shiver and Fascination here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/movie ... r-dvd.html

Spartan wrote:Liked Requiem For A Vampire quite a bit, it's not a film most film heads would appreciate though.

This phrase alone makes it sound right up my street

ThaJim2 · Post by **ThaJim2** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:27 pm

Three colors trilogy with Bleu being my personal favorite.

perfectprism · Post by **perfectprism** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:32 pm

Was gonna go with Wages of Fear or Samourai, but CQ reminded me about Eyes Without A Face, gonna go with that one since it had the greatest impression on me

christian from austin · Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:37 pm

awesome thread. i have alot to catch up on

boianski · Post by **boianski** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:19 pm

My favorite.

Also this..

christian from austin wrote:awesome thread. i have alot to catch up on

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:57 pm

aleph wrote:
Versive wrote:http://rendezvouswithfrenchcinema.com/ is going on this month 3/1-3/11 for all who are interested.

I almost went to see the midnight screening of Jean Rollin's The Shiver of Vampires. He's apparently getting a lot of attn these days. Anyone seen his stuff? Recommendations?

I went. It was one of the most ridiculous films I've ever seen. Only movie of his I've ever seen. Beautiful tits abound, characters disappearing into thin air (there one frame, gone the next), some of the most absurd dialogue I'd ever heard. All around: pretty good.

There's another genre flic playing this Saturday called The Last Screening. I'll be going to that too.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:05 am

Versive wrote:
aleph wrote:
Versive wrote:http://rendezvouswithfrenchcinema.com/ is going on this month 3/1-3/11 for all who are interested.

I almost went to see the midnight screening of Jean Rollin's The Shiver of Vampires. He's apparently getting a lot of attn these days. Anyone seen his stuff? Recommendations?
I went. It was one of the most ridiculous films I've ever seen. Only movie of his I've ever seen. Beautiful tits abound, characters disappearing into thin air (there one frame, gone the next), some of the most absurd dialogue I'd ever heard. All around: pretty good.

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:45 am

Comedy Quaddafi wrote:
HomeSkillet wrote:Much love for the movies in this thread, but don't forget Man Bites Dog, a psycopath masterpiece
Belgium. Great movie though.

No actually its French, skillet was right.

Comedy Quaddafi · Post by **Comedy Quaddafi** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:57 am

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/
Details
Country:Belgium
Filming Locations:Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:03 am

The movie is in French, where it was filmed/director's country of origin is rather irrelevant for the purpose of this thread.

Comedy Quaddafi · Post by **Comedy Quaddafi** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:10 am

Dude. It's a Belgian movie. Every infobase or review on the net states this clearly, look it up. They do speak French though.

Positive A · Post by **Positive A** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:13 am

Comedy Quaddafi wrote:Dude. It's a Belgian movie. Every infobase or review on the net states this clearly, look it up. They do speak French though.

Is this not a thread for French Speaking film?

"Incendies" is

, but french-speaking...

Comedy Quaddafi · Post by **Comedy Quaddafi** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:18 am

Yeah, it doesn't really matter.

I've seen some really good French-Canadian films last year. Never seen a good English-language Canadian film though.