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wc_helmets

MOVIES!!

Jul 15, 2010 19:05

Movies 6/18 - 7/1

Pierrot le Fou/Jean-Luc Godard - 9/10 (I still loves me my French New Wave. I'm more partial to Truffaut, but I like Godard for his Brechtian style of filmmaking, particularly in this one. The colors are beautiful and the dialogue is superb.)
No Regrets for Our Youth/Akira Kurosawa - 7.5/10
Anna Christie/Jacques Feyder - 6.5/ ( Read more... )

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pastorlenny July 16 2010, 00:36:51 UTC

Love The Searchers.

wc_helmets July 16 2010, 02:42:16 UTC

I hadn't seen it until recently, but I was really impressed. I've seen that iconic opening where it's pitch black, then the door opens to Monument Valley, and I've seen that shot used in so many things (Gangs of New York for one). Kill Bill used the ending shot, but Tarantino is a one man montage machine, so that doesn't really count. Really need to see The Quiet Man now.

asylum_at_sea July 16 2010, 11:26:34 UTC

Have you seen the Three Colours trilogy? I just saw Red recently and it was, quite possibly, one of the best films I've ever seen. Which is remarkable, because it's such a simple film. There's so little to it, and yet it leaves you with such a lasting feeling. Anyways, if you like French New Wave, you'll probably like this, although I haven't had the chance to see the other two in the trilogy yet (hard to find!)

wc_helmets July 18 2010, 03:12:43 UTC

I've wanted to see the Three Colors trilogy for a while now. I've got them all as .avi files, as well as the guy's Decalogue series, but I think the Color movies didn't rip very well. I was using Netflix at the time to get movies, rip them, send them back, and start over, so I have a stack of CD's with like 50+ .avi files of things I still haven't watched. That's the only way I found anything from that trilogy. I think I saw Blue at a movie store a while back, but they were wanting $30 for it.

Pierrot le Fou did a lot of similar stuff where the color red, white, or blue were always predominant in the frame. You don't see any aspect of the film without one of those colors around somewhere. I hear the colors trilogy is shot beautifully, and it's been on my list for a while now, but there's always movies to be watched, like Grave of the Fireflies, which I still haven't watched. Right now it's a sporadic watching Tron. I'm trying to get the boy to watch it, but he just isn't interested. The best part about Tron is I can be doing ( ... )

asylum_at_sea July 25 2010, 14:20:54 UTC

Yes, Red was shot very beautifully. The setting is very beautiful as well: little French cafes surrounded by apartment buildings, isolated country vistas on hills, etc., etc. More than anything, though, I think the beauty comes, again, from the simplicity. There was just something so ... serene about it. I'm probably romanticising my memory of it now, after the fact, but I do remember it being one of those movies that's underwhelming as you watch it, where only later, near the end, do you realize how deftly put together it all was and how much emotional landscape it traverses so effortlessly. And a large portion of that really is just the cinematography. The quiet, confiding chat the heroine has with the judge, for instance -- the first time they really open up to each other, instead of butting horns -- is shot in low, not-quite-but-almost seductive lighting, with lots of tinges of red, and the effect is to really dramatically, but somehow subconsciously, mark off this huge emotional shift in the plot. And, again, it's done so deftly ( ... )