Your favorite French Film

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 10:21 am

Comedy Quaddafi wrote: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.

Ever hear of a guy named David Cronenberg?

aleph · Post by **aleph** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:09 pm

Tommy Bunz wrote:
Comedy Quaddafi wrote: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.
Ever hear of a guy named David Cronenberg?

How about Atom Egoyan (I stopped following him a while ago actually but I like some of the early stuff) or Guy Maddin?

aleph · Post by **aleph** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:11 pm

Versive wrote: 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.

Merde! Comely mammaries just aren't the same on dvd.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:30 pm

aleph wrote:
Tommy Bunz wrote:
Comedy Quaddafi wrote: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.
Ever hear of a guy named David Cronenberg?
How about Atom Egoyan (I stopped following him a while ago actually but I like some of the early stuff) or Guy Maddin?

+ on the cult/exploitation side black christmas, my bloody valentine, hobo with a shotgun (eisenberg in general seems like most promising director for this kind of thing working right now)

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:51 pm

My Bloody Valentine, Prom Night, Terror Train etc were generally filmed in Canada for tax reasons. They were largely funded with US dollars from a US studio. Canadian or American, you can make a valid argument for both in my book.

Funky Butler · Post by **Funky Butler** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:19 pm

Yeah guy maddins dope as fyck. One of my favorite current directors.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:37 pm

madden might be the best pick for the argument simply because he makes good movies that are explicitly canada-scentric

darkwingduck · Post by **darkwingduck** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:39 pm

A MAN ESCAPED.

love the subtle intensity this movie delivers.

Mercuthio · Post by **Mercuthio** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:16 am

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:37 pm

Comedy Quaddafi wrote:But that's Greeeeeeek.

Just fucking around obv, Z is zeee sheeeet.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:43 pm

lol it's actually a french/algerian co-production

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:45 pm

set in Greece by a prominent Greek director, which all put together kind of enforces my point even further, all that really matters for the purpose of this thread is the language spoken in the film.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:50 pm

ahhh see but the devil is in the details there... it's not actually literally set in Greece, it's heavily implied of course but CG makes a point to leave the setting unnamed

which for purposes of thread doesn't mean dick, it's def french enough. but i always enjoyed that little passive-agressive angle of it

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:10 pm

Yeah its wasn't filmed in Greece because they couldn't, it was too critical of the Greek government and loosely based on real events, Gravas obv intended for everyone to understand that thats where the movie took place.

all smugkidnesss and technicalites aside, its easily one of the goat political conspiracy thrillers

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:18 pm

wouldn't have a hard time putting as THE goat polit conspiracy thriller

can't really think of anything that could challenge it

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:20 pm

air force one?

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:25 pm

drizzle wrote:wouldn't have a hard time putting as THE goat polit conspiracy thriller

can't really think of anything that could challenge it

All The Presidents Men is certainly in the same tier to me.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:39 pm

valid point but i'd still put z over that one

aleph · Post by **aleph** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:46 pm

It wouldnגt be wrong to identify CG as a French film director since thatגs where he was trained and certainly most of his career was French-based. Been sleepin on his shit- Special Section (episode of Vichy govtגs anti-Resistance history) was I think even better than Z as was State of Siege. Not better in terms of thrillers but of historical coverup films. His early stuff should really be dvd'ed

I rewatched Missing not too long ago and apart from not being better than Battle of Chile, it was pretty astounding that it was a "Hollywood" film depicting the US involvement in the Chilean coup. Really great perf by Lemmon

Mercuthio · Post by **Mercuthio** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:38 am

^yeah, Section Special is another brilliant costa gavras.

that one where Yves Montand is interrogated by the ruskies is also really good. Been a long time since I saw that one.

what's it called...?

confession or something like that...?

Mercuthio · Post by **Mercuthio** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:43 am

Spartan wrote:air force one?

TeenageMoustache · Post by **TeenageMoustache** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:13 pm

No love for Le Doulos in the Melville crowd?

I'd take it over Le Cercle Rouge but not Army of Shadows nor Le Samourai.

What about Cocteau's work: Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus?