Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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::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.
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.
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.
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?
:: Stands staunchly by megan's side ::
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.
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::
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.
Yeah, Adele H is depressing, but so goooood.
I hate Fanny Ardant.
L'Histoire d'Adele H -- most depressing film EVER.
True, although Isabelle Adjani looking radiant is never a bad thing.
What about that film with the mother/son incest... wait, I think that's Louis Malle. I always mix these two up.
Malle.
Murmur of the Heart.
ETA: The way she talks. Her lips. Everything.
