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JohnyC
20-12-2001, 10:01
Remember seeing those back in my twenties and they utterly blew me away. L'homme qui ment, L'Eden et après, Glissements progressifs du plaisir... Not so much great films as non-controlled-substance-induced hallucinations of the more captivating kind. Not to mention old man Alain's rather precise eye for cute (really cute) chicks in --uh-- precarious situations...

Then, of course, he had to go to the well once too often and provide us with that rather soggy Le jeu avec le feu, where he proves once and for all that no matter how intellectual you are and what a great formula you have -- without inspiration it's all for naught. It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing.

Any of those films on DVD?
Hendrik
20-12-2001, 11:19
Q: Any of those films on DVD?

A: Non!

. . . :o . . .
JohnyC
20-12-2001, 11:45
A: Non!

R: Merdre!
Hendrik
20-12-2001, 12:13
...well... you know... there are many, many, so very many French - and German, and Italian, and - yes! - British movies not yet on DVD... think Robert Bresson, think Helmut Käutner, think Lucchino Visconti, think Cavalcanti... not to mention movies from Brazil (Glauber Rocha), Argentina (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson), Japan (Kon Ichikawa), Greece (Michael Cacoyannis)... and... and... and...

...sigh...

. . . :( . . .
JohnyC
20-12-2001, 13:20
...even Spain. Have you seen (or even heard of) Berlanga's Bienvenido Mr. Marshall from the 1950s (forget the exact year)? Like, only a wonderful comedy right up there with the best in film history, and with he customary hidden anti-Franco barbs in all the right places. Nowhere to be found... :( with knobs on...
Ted Todorov
20-12-2001, 16:01
...even Spain. Have you seen (or even heard of) Berlanga's Bienvenido Mr. Marshall from the 1950s (forget the exact year)? Like, only a wonderful comedy right up there with the best in film history, and with he customary hidden anti-Franco barbs in all the right places. Nowhere to be found... with knobs on...
NOW you tell me -- it just played last week at the best movie theater in New York, 9 blocks from my house.

I have been going to the Spanish film festival, but I see I've missed a gem. :brickwall

I do have a point -- it is still easier (if you live in the right place) to see Robbe-Grillet etc. movies in the theater. I would love a Glissements progressifs du plaisir DVD though.

Ted