Antonioni was all about the ennui. There's no action.
But it's a movie about a guy who may have photographed a murder! How can that be ennuitastic and actionless? COME ON, ANTONIONI.
Don't worry, we're sure to spot Faith first. She's like this cleavagy slut-bomb walking around 'Ooh, check me out, I'm wicked-cool, I'm five-by-five.'
Willow ,'Get It Done'
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Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2009 9:34:30 am PDT #2746 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hayden - Jun 30, 2009 9:39:42 am PDT #2747 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
::cries::
There, there.
Even for lovely confections like Day for Night?
Never seen it! I've only seen The 400 Blows, Shoot The Piano Player, Jules et Jim, and Fahrenheit 451, and I disliked (or hated) the last three of those. Everything I've read that the guy wrote, on the other hand, was sharp and insightful.
COME ON, ANTONIONI.
Well, it does have topless Vanessa Redgrave. And Jeff Beck smashing a guitar a la Pete Townshend. And the style is definitely High Swinging London. But the stories in Antonioni movies are sorta like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: the story you think you're going to get is happening elsewhere.
Ash - Jun 30, 2009 9:46:00 am PDT #2748 of 30000
I rented Uwe Boll's
Any sentence that begins with those words is bound to end in sorrow and alcohol, and rooms full of broken things.
megan walker - Jun 30, 2009 9:46:11 am PDT #2749 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Never seen it! I've only seen The 400 Blows, Shoot The Piano Player, Jules et Jim, and Fahrenheit 451, and I disliked (or hated) the last three of those. Everything I've read that the guy wrote, on the other hand, was sharp and insightful.
Hmm, yeah, not the best of the bunch for sure, although I like Pianiste. I can't believe someone who worships Renoir as you do would not appreciate at least some Truffaut.
erikaj - Jun 30, 2009 9:47:53 am PDT #2750 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
I wish I had one of y'all around to go to these French films with. Because I'm not subtitle-averse or anything...I've seen a few, but it's not really something I'd do by myself or with my mother. Ok, and I started this whole conversation to cover up for the films I've rented since "Entourage" gave me a Grenier fixation. There is much possibly painful festival-type viewing in my future, I suspect. But I want an intervention if I ever mention curiosity about "Harvard Man"SMG or no. Promise?
Scrappy - Jun 30, 2009 9:48:23 am PDT #2751 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
:: Stands staunchly by megan's side ::
Hayden - Jun 30, 2009 9:55:45 am PDT #2752 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I can't believe someone who worships Renoir as you do would not appreciate at least some Truffaut
Give me some more recommendations, then!
But I want an intervention if I ever mention curiosity about "Harvard Man"SMG or no. Promise?
I heard a hilarious thirdhand Toback story from one of my fellow Screengrab bloggers which was mostly about the lecherous Toback trying to impress his (the blogger's, I mean) ladyfriend despite appearing to all the world to be a homeless dude. Unfortunately, he refused to post the story, it being thirdhand and involving dialogue that was surely embellished.
megan walker - Jun 30, 2009 10:00:14 am PDT #2753 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Classics:
Baisers volés
Day for Night
Hitchcockian:
Vivement dimanche!
(despite Fanny Ardant)
The Bride Wore Black
Wistful:
L’Argent de poche
L’Enfant sauvage
Wistful and Historical:
The Last Metro
(Deneuve and Dépardieu!)
::sits back and waits for Hec to chime in::
Vonnie K - Jun 30, 2009 10:06:22 am PDT #2754 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
DESPITE Fanny Ardant? Despite? You don't like Fanny Ardant?!
I adore Vivement Dimanche! for the Hitchcock homage and the awesome b/w photography (and Fanny Ardant.) It might be my favourite Truffaut, but I've only seen a few -- and I mostly wanted to smack his protagonists, so I may not be much of a Truffaut fan.
(L'Histoire d'Adele H -- most depressing film EVER.)
What about that film with the mother/son incest... wait, I think that's Louis Malle. I always mix these two up.
Scrappy - Jun 30, 2009 10:08:22 am PDT #2755 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Yeah, Adele H is depressing, but so goooood.