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Have you seen Les trottoirs de Saturne (see above), Ben? Would be good to hear your thoughts on that one. Meanwhile, Lutz, as it seems you're contractually obliged to see every film with Isabelle Huppert in it :) , I was wondering what you (and your wife) made of Yves Boisset's Dupont Lajoie . And, ...

https://www.slantmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/flor.jpg Mariano Llinás, La flor , 2018 It was our own Lao Tsu Ben who recommended I spend the idle hours of lockdown watching this thirteen-and-a-half hour long metafilm (though I had, out of curiosity, already snatched it over at the other ...

https://www.lillelanuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/peter-1.jpg François Ozon, Peter von Kant , 2022 https://d32gva8s8jjsl4.cloudfront.net/img/p/1/3/4/4/1344-cover_large.jpg Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant , 1972 Sigh, I wish I didn't have to do tedious things li...

https://worldscinema.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Les-trottoirs-de-Saturne-19862-e1600765250419.png Hugo Santiago, Les trottoirs de Saturne , 1986 Exiled - in Paris - Argentine bandeonista Fabian (played by real life bandoneon wizard Rodolfo Mederos: a nice touch, like Heimat 2 , casting real mus...

http://ekladata.com/1hBpPnHwNp-XaFes2Sm3-y8xCeU.gif Damian Szifron, Wild Tales , 2014 "Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress," says IMDb. Yup, spot on there. Only one of these sketches ends well (sort of... maybe two, we can discuss that last ...

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/pictures/rktaMCX9oGnmpp_DNMz6gJkErhM/752x423/2021/11/16/phpDSdslo.jpg Jean-Christophe Meurisse, Oranges sanguines , 2021 Just before anyone sends in one of those despairing "what happened to Dan?" posts, this is just to let you know I'm alive, well, watching more movies ...

https://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/0/58/23/81/20190917/ob_9803c8_ob-7d4123-la-neige-etait-sale.jpg Luis Saslavsky, La neige était sale , 1953 I was blown away by the director's later Les louves a while back, based on a typically twisted Boileau Narcejac ( Les diaboliques , Vertigo ...) tale, and here h...

https://www.jeuneafrique.com/medias/2022/10/10/jad20221010-cm-cinema-torietlokita-1024x688.jpg Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Tori et Lokita , 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/04/tori-and-lokita-review-dardenne-brothers-young-west-african-migrants-in-belgium Nice to see that the Dardenne...

https://aws1.vdkimg.com/film/1/3/1/5/1315717_backdrop_scale_1280xauto.jpg Frank Cassenti, Le chanson de Roland , 1978 How can a film with a cast that includes Klaus Kinski, Alain Cuny, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-Claude Brialy and Dominique Sanda have fallen so spectacularly off the r...

https://www.flagey.be/en/rimage/pivot_og_image/activity/8261/af756b5a4666a619e1643fb0b8ba6dc5 Marco Bellochio, Gli Occhi, la Bocca , 1982 Apart from a fleeting appearance as an extra in Il Gattopardo , Lou Castel (né Ulv Quarzéll, Swedish but born in Bogota) made his stunning debut in 1965 in Bello...

https://www.lemagducine.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/la-nuit-du-12-film-critique-bastien-bouillon-pauline-serieys.jpg Dominik Moll, La nuit du 12 , 2022 Has Bouli Lanners been in a bad film yet? If so, don't tell me. I'm a fan. Both he and Bastien Bouillon are excellent here as cops in Grenoble in...

I posted this to cap last year, but it might have gone a bit unnoticed there, so let's start this year with it. https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dinner-in-america.jpg Adam Rehmeier - Dinner In America (2020) OK, a couple of years old but THIS is clearly my Movie of the Year. ’Tis the ...

Oh, I have no problem with Blanchett. Just thought it dragged a bit. Marin Alsop, ah yes, forgot about her. Amused to see the French have now adopted the word cheffe (wonder if that applies to women working in restaurant kitchens too..n'importe quoi)

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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...