Out 1 (1971, Jacques Rivette)
Thankfully, I have a downloaded copy of the movie from Raitre Italian TV, so I can get lots of screen shots. The charactors (actors) and their relationships seem more important than plot/storyline, so...
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The Pornographer (2001, Bertrand Bonello)
Melancholy character drama about a washed-up pornographer. Technically speaking it’s a very nice movie, though it would help if I knew or cared what the story was about. Pornographer and subject:...
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Out 1: Spectre (1972, Jacques Rivette)
Finally out on video, I got to watch this seven years after seeing Out 1 in theaters. Rosenbaum calls the two films “radically different,” but to me, it often felt simply like a shorter version of Out...
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Day for Night (1973, Francois Truffaut)
Movie about chaos and joys of filmmaking, with producers and director, love affairs, on-set PR/media crew, interfering locals, rumor monging, old friends, unexpectedly pregnant actors, stunt doubles,...
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What Time Is It There? (2001, Tsai Ming-Liang)
I haven’t watched a narrative (non-Walker) Tsai movie in a while, and I forget that they don’t exactly have stories that make any proper sense. For some reason I was in the mood to watch walker Lee...
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Treasure Island (1985, Raoul Ruiz)
Ruiz made a series of films in the mid-1980’s involving sailors, pirates, children, islands, treasure and magic. There’s an explicit Treasure Island reference in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983), and...
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La Chinoise (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
Catching up… I watched this three weeks ago, and the only note I took says: Unfun intellectual/political word games Obviously it’s a complicated (if unfun) movie, so a one-line review will not do. This...
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The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Albert Serra)
Optimally, this should be watched directly after The Rise of Louis XIV by Rossellini. I’m such an idiot about royalty and history that I’d forgotten it was the same king until I looked it up after...
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La Vie de Bohème (1992, Aki Kaurismäki)
Watched on Kaurismaki’s birthday, this movie suddenly taking priority after I learned that André Wilms’s character Marcel from Le Havre originated here. Not as much rock music as usual for A.K., but...
View ArticleIrma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas)
This is still the movie I remember from 20-some years ago (filmmaker J-P Leaud is remaking Les Vampires, Maggie Cheung is adrift between crew members, they both get too into their own madness), but I...
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The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
One of those holy-grail 1970’s movies, and now that it’s been nicely restored for the HD streaming generation, we can watch and forget it and move on. Jean-Pierre Leaud, soon after Out 1 and the second...
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