The Foreign Film Thread. - Page 19

gwynplaine · 04-12-2012, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by darkseid26

"Small Change" and "Day For Night" are my favorite Truffaut films, along with his Doinel series.

Even though they are interesting, I don't think the later "Doinel Films" are as brilliant as "400 Blows."

darkseid26 · 04-13-2012, 07:30 PM

Understandable. I love the "Doinel films". I feel like I grew up with Doinel and I always get watery eyed during the very end of "Love on the Run".

gwynplaine · 04-13-2012, 07:41 PM

Yeah, Truffaut and Leaud were a very interesting and unique cinematic pairing

I thought that Leaud's performance in "400 Blows" was one of the best that I've seen by a child actor. Right up there with the kids in "Night of the Hunter", Tatum O'Neal in "Paper Moon" or Elliot in "ET", as well as a few others that I can't think about right now.

gwynplaine · 04-13-2012, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by darkseid26

Understandable. I love the "Doinel films". I feel like I grew up with Doinel and I always get watery eyed during the very end of "Love on the Run".

Have you seen Truffaut's "The Last Metro" with Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu?

darkseid26 · 04-13-2012, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by gwynplaine

Have you seen Truffaut's "The Last Metro" with Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu?

Yup. I think it may have been my first Truffaut film actually, or second after "The 400 Blows". Depardieu and Deneuve are great in it.

gwynplaine · 04-13-2012, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by darkseid26

Yup. I think it may have been my first Truffaut film actually, or second after "The 400 Blows". Depardieu and Deneuve are great in it.

gwynplaine · 04-20-2012, 06:41 PM

Just ordered a couple of Jean Gabin's classics: Jean Renoir's "Grand Illusion" and Marcel Carne's "Le Jour Se Leve."

childeroland · 04-20-2012, 07:04 PM

Does anyone know where to get a DVD of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Daughter of the Nile?

darkseid26 · 04-20-2012, 09:09 PM

I've come to the conclusion that Fellini is God.

gwynplaine · 04-20-2012, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by darkseid26

I've come to the conclusion that Fellini is God.

I love Fellini too, especially the early ones like "La Strada", "Il Bidone", "I Vitelloni" etc...

darkseid26 · 04-20-2012, 10:09 PM

He makes it look so easy. Filmmaking that is.

gwynplaine · 04-20-2012, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by darkseid26

He makes it look so easy. Filmmaking that is.

darkseid26 · 04-23-2012, 03:21 AM

Just saw "Diary of a Country Priest". Need time to let that one sink in. My mind is kind of racing.

SoNicRaDiATioN · 04-23-2012, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by darkseid26

Just saw "Diary of a Country Priest". Need time to let that one sink in. My mind is kind of racing.

I had the same feeling about it. This film lived with me for days, as all great art should.

*Recently I had similar reactions to Days of the Eclipse and The Taste of Cherry.

gwynplaine · 04-29-2012, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by gwynplaine

Just ordered a couple of Jean Gabin's classics: Jean Renoir's "Grand Illusion" and Marcel Carne's "Le Jour Se Leve."

I had seen them a few years ago and loved them both. Just watched them again recently. Gabin's acting is so modern and powerful.
Two true masterpieces of cinema. Highly recommended for those who haven't seen them and don't mind black and white or subtitles.

Secret Fawful · 05-01-2012, 07:35 AM

I really really want to see the 1928 Chinese silent film The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple...but I doubt that will ever be possible. I am sad. The movie is 27 hours long.

TomServo · 05-02-2012, 06:22 PM

Watched Throne of Blood and thought it was quite good, not Kurosawa's best, but certainly a very good film, he was truly a master.

darkseid26 · 05-02-2012, 07:08 PM

Thorne of Blood is my favorite Kurosawa, along with High and Low.

gwynplaine · 05-02-2012, 07:57 PM

Just watched for the 1st time "This Man Must Die." Great film (it inspired Sean Penn The Crossing Guard", but it is much better imo.) It is based on a book written by Nicholas Blake ("The Beast Must Die"), actually a pseudonym for British poet Cecil Day-Lewis who is also Daniel Day-Lewis' father.
It's my second favorite Claude Chabrol movie after "The Butcher." Both films star a young Jean Yanne at the peak of his talent.

TomServo · 05-02-2012, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by darkseid26

Thorne of Blood is my favorite Kurosawa, along with High and Low.

I can see why as it was really good. High and Low is also fantastic, my favorites are Sanjuro and Yojimbo, and of course (real original, I know) Seven Samurai.

darkseid26 · 05-02-2012, 11:27 PM

Nothing wrong with that haha

Kurosawa is probably the only filmmaker where I've never read anything bad said about him. I guess the consensus is he is "The Master" and it's a well deserved title.

childeroland · 05-06-2012, 03:37 PM

Just watched "Not One Less," one of Zhang Yimou's more neorealistic efforts. You really can see Kiarostami's influence here but this is definitely Zhang's own voice--I don't know how he got this past the censors, particularly with those final devastating moments in the car and in the village classroom. Superb, just wonderful.

childeroland · 05-08-2012, 10:32 PM

Watched Ann Hui's Summer Snow. Lovely low-key comedy.

childeroland · 05-09-2012, 07:41 PM

Enjoyed In the Hands of the Puppetmaster a lot. Plays a lot like Flowers of Shanghai in being a series of tableaux but otherwise shares a similar aesthetic with City of Sadness.

childeroland · 05-19-2012, 10:14 AM

The Black Cannon Incident -- a very funny satire on Chinese bureaucracy that plays like something out of Bulgakov.

04-13-2012, 07:30 PM	#452
darkseid26 Asa Nisi Masa Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 4,610	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. Understandable. I love the "Doinel films". I feel like I grew up with Doinel and I always get watery eyed during the very end of "Love on the Run".

04-13-2012, 07:41 PM	#453
gwynplaine L'homme qui rit. Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 7,563	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. Yeah, Truffaut and Leaud were a very interesting and unique cinematic pairing I thought that Leaud's performance in "400 Blows" was one of the best that I've seen by a child actor. Right up there with the kids in "Night of the Hunter", Tatum O'Neal in "Paper Moon" or Elliot in "ET", as well as a few others that I can't think about right now. __________________ Laugh now, laugh later.

04-20-2012, 06:41 PM	#457
gwynplaine L'homme qui rit. Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 7,563	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. Just ordered a couple of Jean Gabin's classics: Jean Renoir's "Grand Illusion" and Marcel Carne's "Le Jour Se Leve." __________________ Laugh now, laugh later.

04-20-2012, 07:04 PM	#458
childeroland Side-Kick Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 2,760	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. Does anyone know where to get a DVD of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Daughter of the Nile? __________________ That which is not Body, is no part of the Universe ... and because the Universe is All ... that which is not Body is Nothing and consequently Nowhere. -- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

04-20-2012, 09:09 PM	#459
darkseid26 Asa Nisi Masa Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 4,610	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. I've come to the conclusion that Fellini is God.

04-20-2012, 10:09 PM	#461
darkseid26 Asa Nisi Masa Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 4,610	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. He makes it look so easy. Filmmaking that is.

04-23-2012, 03:21 AM	#463
darkseid26 Asa Nisi Masa Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 4,610	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. Just saw "Diary of a Country Priest". Need time to let that one sink in. My mind is kind of racing.

05-01-2012, 07:35 AM	#466
Secret Fawful Banned User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bat Country Posts: 2,574	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. I really really want to see the 1928 Chinese silent film The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple...but I doubt that will ever be possible. I am sad. The movie is 27 hours long. Last edited by Secret Fawful; 05-01-2012 at 07:39 AM.

05-02-2012, 06:22 PM	#467
TomServo I Want To Believe. Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Way Down in Deep 13 Posts: 158	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. Watched Throne of Blood and thought it was quite good, not Kurosawa's best, but certainly a very good film, he was truly a master. __________________ T "That designated driver is pretty hot, I'd like to get her drunk."- Daniel Desario "Man that hairy bastard loves funnel cake."- John Dorian, MD

05-02-2012, 07:08 PM	#468
darkseid26 Asa Nisi Masa Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 4,610	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. Thorne of Blood is my favorite Kurosawa, along with High and Low.

05-02-2012, 07:57 PM	#469
gwynplaine L'homme qui rit. Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 7,563	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. Just watched for the 1st time "This Man Must Die." Great film (it inspired Sean Penn The Crossing Guard", but it is much better imo.) It is based on a book written by Nicholas Blake ("The Beast Must Die"), actually a pseudonym for British poet Cecil Day-Lewis who is also Daniel Day-Lewis' father. It's my second favorite Claude Chabrol movie after "The Butcher." Both films star a young Jean Yanne at the peak of his talent. __________________ Laugh now, laugh later. Last edited by gwynplaine; 05-02-2012 at 08:04 PM.

05-02-2012, 11:27 PM	#471
darkseid26 Asa Nisi Masa Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 4,610	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. Nothing wrong with that haha Kurosawa is probably the only filmmaker where I've never read anything bad said about him. I guess the consensus is he is "The Master" and it's a well deserved title.

05-06-2012, 03:37 PM	#472
childeroland Side-Kick Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 2,760	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. Just watched "Not One Less," one of Zhang Yimou's more neorealistic efforts. You really can see Kiarostami's influence here but this is definitely Zhang's own voice--I don't know how he got this past the censors, particularly with those final devastating moments in the car and in the village classroom. Superb, just wonderful. __________________ That which is not Body, is no part of the Universe ... and because the Universe is All ... that which is not Body is Nothing and consequently Nowhere. -- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan Last edited by childeroland; 05-07-2012 at 07:35 PM.

05-08-2012, 10:32 PM	#473
childeroland Side-Kick Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 2,760	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. Watched Ann Hui's Summer Snow. Lovely low-key comedy. __________________ That which is not Body, is no part of the Universe ... and because the Universe is All ... that which is not Body is Nothing and consequently Nowhere. -- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

05-09-2012, 07:41 PM	#474
childeroland Side-Kick Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 2,760	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. Enjoyed In the Hands of the Puppetmaster a lot. Plays a lot like Flowers of Shanghai in being a series of tableaux but otherwise shares a similar aesthetic with City of Sadness. __________________ That which is not Body, is no part of the Universe ... and because the Universe is All ... that which is not Body is Nothing and consequently Nowhere. -- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

05-19-2012, 10:14 AM	#475
childeroland Side-Kick Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 2,760	Re: The Foreign Film Thread. The Black Cannon Incident -- a very funny satire on Chinese bureaucracy that plays like something out of Bulgakov. __________________ That which is not Body, is no part of the Universe ... and because the Universe is All ... that which is not Body is Nothing and consequently Nowhere. -- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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