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11-05-2003, 03:22 PM
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Your 10 favourite French films?
1.The Green Ray (Rohmer)
2.La Regle du Jeu (Renoir)
3.Celine and Julie go Boating (Rivette)
4.L'Atalante (Vigo)
5.A Day in the Country (Renoir)
6.Orphée (Cocteau)
7.Pierrot le Fou (Godard)
8.Claire's Knee (Rohmer)
9.Hiroshima mon Amour (Resnais)
10.Les Enfants du Paradis (Carné)
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11-05-2003, 03:24 PM
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Someone's having himself a posting spree...
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11-05-2003, 03:48 PM
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Love In The Afternoon/Chloe In The Afternoon (Rohmer)
My Life To Live (Godard)
Children Of Paradise (Carne)
Perceval Le Gallois (Rohmer)
Breathless (Godard)
Stolen Kisses (Truffaut)
Mon Oncle (Tati)
Le Million (Clair)
Humanite (Dumont)
Vagabond (Varda)
Again, limiting myself to two from any one director so there's no Rohmer or Godard domination.
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Inside - B / The Crazies - B
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11-05-2003, 03:56 PM
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I've ordered Love in the Afternoon by mail order rental. You've certainly now whetted (?) my appetite. I must see Perceval le Gallois (my compatriot) again. A strikingly original film that i probably didn't appreciate properly several years ago.
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11-05-2003, 04:14 PM
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Haven't seen many (certainly not enough of the classics), but of what I have seen:
La Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain
L'Age d'Or
La Belle et la Bete
Jules et Jim
I Stand Alone
Rules of the Game
Fantastic Planet
Vagabond
The Sorrow and the Pity
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
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11-05-2003, 04:22 PM
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In no order:
· Grand Illusion
· Breathless
· The 400 Blows
· The Passion of Joan of Arc
· Children of Paradise
· L’Atalante
· Beauty and the Beast
· Belle de jour
· Playtime
· The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
As with all of these exercises, I’d have some different ones next time.
¡Time is not my master!
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11-05-2003, 08:58 PM
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
Napoleon vu par Abel Gance
Les Diaboliques
Un chien andalou
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11-06-2003, 08:04 AM
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belle de jour
the 400 blows
the rules of the game
la grande illusion
the umbrellas of cherbourg
the double life of veronique
la femme nikita
breathless
claire's knee
children of paradise
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11-06-2003, 10:41 AM
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The 400 Blows
Children of Paradise
L’Atalante
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Last Year At Marienbad
Le Samourai
La Haine
Beauty and the Beast
Mon Oncle
Pépé le Moko
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11-06-2003, 10:48 AM
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Note for my list I did not consider The Passion of Joan of Arc to be a French film, nor did I consider the French period Bunuel films as "French films".
John, I might be the biggest Love in the Afternoon fan you'll find. The others I know that are big Rohmer fans don't hold it nearly in the regard that I do and are closer to your opinion, highly ranking movies like The Green Ray, Claire's Knee, and My Night at Maud's that I would put further down my own list.
For me, Love in the Afternoon is similar thematically to Eyes Wide Shut, only with a more realistic and less fanciful setting. These are explorations of male fantasy, particularly sexual fantasy, after marriage. I think it is his most insightful film, and is his most personally relevant to me. Pay careful attention, and there are some strong similarities in the progression of story between LitA and EWS.
Yes, Captain Hammer's here, hair blowing in the breeze. The day needs my saving expertise! - Captain Hammer, Corporate Tool
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 313 Last Watched: Time of the Gypsies
Last 10 Films Watched:
The Guard From Underground - C / Halloween (2007) - B-
Retribution - B / Frontiers - C
The Third Mother - B+ / The Mist - A
Diary of the Dead - B+ / The Invisible Man - B+
Inside - B / The Crazies - B
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