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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35bff46c3c465f6192fcc/1665257951842-UMV4D5EKO2STSCNPTGJU/RR22-Tar-Box-1.jpg?format=1500w Todd Field, Tár , 2022 Not much to add to MRS's smashing write-up just before Christmas (see p.22 last year's RWF thread). It's a mighty impressive performance f...

Lancelot , of course. How could I have forgotten Bobby Bresson? (Probably been spending too much time lately with Bobby Briggs :)) Happy New Year to ya too Lutz. Mr Turner , yes.. don't recall if I mentioned it last time (when did we see this? 2015?) but my dad was Chairman of the Northern Branch a...

https://www.panorama-cinema.com/V2/images/critique/critique1486/entete.png Paul Verhoeven, Flesh + Blood , 1985 To quote a certain Noel Murray, on Wiki: "From the start of his career, Dutch director Paul Verhoeven has mostly focused on making violent, sexy genre pieces—often punishing, often absurd...

https://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/17lynch-excerpts3-superJumbo-v2.jpg David Lynch, Twin Peaks: The Return , 2017 Well, OK, call it a series if you want, but as far as I'm concerned it's a film :) I've been overdosing on Lynch crit lately, not because I find much of interest in it...

A Happy New Year to all. Can't be worse than last year - can it? Anyway, lest you think I started 2023's film binge just after midnight on January 1st, here's the first of many left over from last year's lot. New Year's Resolution: write up more films? Yours and mine :) ? all the best to posters & l...

https://medias.unifrance.org/medias/94/142/101982/format_page/media.jpg Pierre Billon, Agnès de rien , 1950 It's a sign of how obscure this film is that I couldn't find a decent screenshot and had to settle for a poster instead, which is a shame as it deserves to be much better known. Based on a no...

https://www.arte.tv/sites/olivierpere/files/2012/01/gecc81rard-blain-dans-son-film-jusquau-bout-de-la-nuit.jpg Gérard Blain, Jusqu'au bout de la nuit , 1995 One critic compares it rather favourably to High Sierra and L'Argent , which is setting the bar somewhat high, though I see what he's getting ...

Yes, that's a good one, if a little over the top at times. I like all those early Brisseaus, and know that particular Bagnolet project quite well as a friend of mine bought a flat nearby, for some inexplicable reason. Meanwhile, as nobody else is posting much, I'll try and hurtle towards the winter ...

https://bfav.s3.amazonaws.com/media/films/LeTh%C3%A9auharemdArchim%C3%A8de-1985-9b9c9f2c/fdb7f89463.jpg Mehdi Charef, Le thé au harem d'Archimède , 1985 Don't be put off by the title: there's no sign of Archimedes and no tea either (the title is explained, fear not, and it's an amusing scene) in th...

https://images.mubicdn.net/images/film/3976/cache-47203-1577174507/image-w1280.jpg?size=800x Ingmar Bergman, A Lesson in Love , 1954 Whenever we sit around after dinner and say "so what are we going to watch tonight?" (happens often), Bergman often comes up, and one of us usually counters with, "ac...

https://www.cinelounge.org/imgfull/236088.jpg Marguerite Duras, Des journées entières dans les arbres , 1977 Not a single review - crrritic or user - at IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205864/ which is unfortunate, as someone needs to sing the praises of Duras's adaptation of her own short story...

Another return visit: http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/f/fb/Rollingthunder4.jpg/600px-Rollingthunder4.jpg John Flynn, Rolling Thunder , 1977 Fascinating if flawed (fascinating because of its flaws) tale of combat-hardened Vietnam Vets out for revenge, with fine performances from William "Knots Land...

Two of Fendt's moyen métrages have now popped up at KG in HD and - hooray for my wife - with subtitles. Enjoyed watching this one again http://www.bkmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Short-Stay.jpg Ted Fendt, Short Stay , 2016 Once more shot in the "mesmerizingly anonymous suburb of Philadelphia wh...

https://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/workspace/uploads/modules/fire-1-fr-1658503913.jpg Claire Denis, Avec amour et acharnement , 2022 Which translates perfectly well as "With Love and Determination", so goodness knows why the film goes by the English title Both Sides of the Blade , and also, apparently,...

https://www.cinelounge.org/imgfull/239655.jpg Andrzej Żuławski, Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours 1989 I remember going to see a Marx Brothers movie in the Quartier Latin on one of my first trips to Paris, and being amused at how the French audience laughed in all the wrong places, simply be...

https://images.mubicdn.net/images/film/221500/cache-388710-1541977223/image-w1280.jpg?size=800x Claude Goretta, Les chemins de l'exil , 1978 While we wait for some enterprising soul to reissue this correctly - and we may be waiting some time, alas - the only copy available online I can find (Karaga...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2uVRvwfNwp4/TpQn0X20X0I/AAAAAAAAEQo/e8nxFgSNwbo/s1600/Intimacy.Patrice.Chereau.2001.avi_snapshot_00.02.45_%255B2011.10.11_04.22.46%255D.jpg Patrice Chéreau, Intimacy , 2001 Pity my poor long-suffering spouse, whose English is pretty decent but who had something of a strugg...

Wow, great to see more folks out and about and posting! Thanks for these posts - only knew Todd Field as an actor before, nice. Will investigate! Meanwhile Lutz, we may not agree on Dark but will probably do so on Park, looking forward to watching that new one soon

https://i.blogs.es/29f5b3/dyingofthelight/1366_2000.jpg Paul Schrader, Dark , 2017 Wikiplot: "Evan Lake (Nicolas Cage) is a highly decorated veteran CIA agent and Intelligence Star recipient reduced to a desk job at Langley with his protege and close friend Milton "Milt" Schultz (Anton Yelchin). Tw...

Sorry, autocorrect: it was the Director's Cut of Nymphomaniac (see above), not 245 minutes but 326 just in case any of you feel like following me down that road... that way madness lies