Une Femme est Une Femme

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I never finished it!

In any case, I think it safe to say our tastes diverge not a little.

Buuel, for instance, would be on my v. short list. Abel Gance, too.
 
Are you being serious right now? Because this is important.

If you have seen Mouchette all the way through, and you can just swat at Bresson like he was a house fly, some annoyance, then I wouldn't know what kind of person you were. Really.

If you got bored and turned the channel somewhere midway along, then alright, you just don't know that which you overhastily condemn. Everybody has made that mistake before.
 
I like Bunuel. Not enough to figure out how to get the tilden to work. But I like Bunuel.

I mean, ok Bunuel. That's fine. Cool. Just as long as you are not like, well Costa-Gavras is tops!! 'Cause I mean, there are different viewpoints, and there is just wrong. So, okay. Yeah, alright. Cool. Bunuel. Fine.
 
Aguirre, Wrath of God blows my mind. Its poetry, probably my favorite film. I had the opportunity to see it on the big screen this past summer at the Detroit Film Theatre. The river raft scene camera angles might be film school but Ill be damned if it doesnt invoke a real sense of dread. Herzog is crazy enough to send himself and his crew to the threshold, just watch La Soufrire.

I could watch LAvventura without sound. La Notte is outstanding, too. Does anyone see a parallel between the protagonists of La Notte and Blow Up?

And Bergman can spin a visual narrative as good as anyone. I just watched Winter Light last night. I imagine the video game crowd would completely miss the point of the entire first ten minutes seeing only a priest performing the Eucharist. Netflix has changed my life.
 
I like every movie mentioned in this thread. Godard, Truffaut, Sirk, they're all jake by me. Making aesthetic discriminations is a mug's game, like giving points to wine. The more one learns to like, the more enriched one's life is.

But why is Les Quatre Cent Coups translated literally? It makes all English speakers think the title is some deep metaphor. Right up there with Remembrances of Things Past as a badly translated title.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Brad L.: Antonioni, Fellini, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Rossellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Eisenstein, Godard in the '80s, Godard in the '90s, Godard now, Rohmer, Resnais, Rivette, Truffaut, Varda, Cocteau, Demy, Carne, Renoir, Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Lang, Hitchcock, Reed, Kubrick, Ray, Preminger, Scorsese, Sirk, Malick, Jarmusch, Kurosawa, Ozu, Angelopoulos, Kieslowski, Kirostami, others.
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I'd add Robert Altman, Hayao Miyazaki and Sergio Leone to that list.
 
originally posted by Todd Abrams:
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Brad L.: Antonioni, Fellini, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Rossellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Eisenstein, Godard in the '80s, Godard in the '90s, Godard now, Rohmer, Resnais, Rivette, Truffaut, Varda, Cocteau, Demy, Carne, Renoir, Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Lang, Hitchcock, Reed, Kubrick, Ray, Preminger, Scorsese, Sirk, Malick, Jarmusch, Kurosawa, Ozu, Angelopoulos, Kieslowski, Kirostami, others.
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I'd add Robert Altman, Hayao Miyazaki and Sergio Leone to that list.
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I like them too.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by Todd Abrams:
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Brad L.: Antonioni, Fellini, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Rossellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Eisenstein, Godard in the '80s, Godard in the '90s, Godard now, Rohmer, Resnais, Rivette, Truffaut, Varda, Cocteau, Demy, Carne, Renoir, Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Lang, Hitchcock, Reed, Kubrick, Ray, Preminger, Scorsese, Sirk, Malick, Jarmusch, Kurosawa, Ozu, Angelopoulos, Kieslowski, Kirostami, others.
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I'd add Robert Altman, Hayao Miyazaki and Sergio Leone to that list.
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I like them too.
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What's the matter with you people? Does John Ford get no love on Film Disorder?
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by Todd Abrams:
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Brad L.: Antonioni, Fellini, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Rossellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Eisenstein, Godard in the '80s, Godard in the '90s, Godard now, Rohmer, Resnais, Rivette, Truffaut, Varda, Cocteau, Demy, Carne, Renoir, Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Lang, Hitchcock, Reed, Kubrick, Ray, Preminger, Scorsese, Sirk, Malick, Jarmusch, Kurosawa, Ozu, Angelopoulos, Kieslowski, Kirostami, others.
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I'd add Robert Altman, Hayao Miyazaki and Sergio Leone to that list.
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I like them too.
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What's the matter with you people? Does John Ford get no love on Film Disorder?
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I like him too.
 
originally posted by Carl Steefel:
What do you think about Herzog's Aguirre Wrath of God (as long as the discussion seems to be broadening out)? I ask because I forced my brother-in-law and nephew to watch this over Christmas. I still think it is a great movie after about 4 viewings, but then Aguirre and I are perhaps kindred spirits...
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Jeder fuer Sich is my fav Herzog. It's probably trite, even a little juvenile, but I really love the long opening shot of wind blowing through a wheatfield.
 
originally posted by Todd Abrams:
Aguirre, Wrath of God blows my mind. Its poetry, probably my favorite film. I had the opportunity to see it on the big screen this past summer at the Detroit Film Theatre. The river raft scene camera angles might be film school but Ill be damned if it doesnt invoke a real sense of dread. Herzog is crazy enough to send himself and his crew to the threshold, just watch La Soufrire.
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I'll put in my vote for Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes, too. For a classic Herzog experience, put together a triple bill of that film, Fitzcarraldo and Les Blank's Burden of Dreams. Serve a well-aged TBA with a heaping bowlful of Zoloft for this event.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
"L'Avventura" leaves me cold & bored.
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Huh. Whoa, to qoute CC.

Well paced? Not for the XBox generation? But, cold & bored?

I think of Antonioni as a precursor to landscape oriented video artists. Or, even, landscape artists like Goldsworthy who include video in what they're doing. The actors are just a part of the scenery. In some ways, they are best watched without sound.
 
That reminds me, has anyone seen Bill Morrison's "Decasia"? Absolutely enthralling. Though I like it more on DVD than the representation I saw (in 2004) at some kind of art space in DUMBO, projected on all four walls and with the music ablare, people walking randomly before projectors, etc.
 
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