Logo
DiS Needs You: Save our site »
  • Drinks - Hippo Lite about 19 hours ago
  • Alexis Taylor - Beautiful Thing about 19 hours ago
  • "I feel like an awesome guitar hero": DiS Meets Hinds about 22 hours ago
  • "We never stopped doing things": DiS Meets The Longcut 2 days ago
  • Jenny Wilson - Exorcism 3 days ago
  • Mouse on Mars - Dimensional People 3 days ago
  • DiScover Diron Animal 3 days ago
  • The Damned - Evil Spirits 6 days ago
  • Logo_home2
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • In Photos
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Search
  • Community
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • Blog
  • Community

Your are viewing a read-only archive of the old DiS boards. Please hit the Community button above to engage with the DiS !

Boards

Music Social More…

French new wave, cahiers de cinema etc.

aggressively_passive [Edit] [Delete] 37 replies 14:01, 20 November '14

(a thread for total wankers)
recently seen breathless, the 400 blows and hiroshima mon amour.
they're all ace, recommendations please!

Share on
   
Love DiS? Become a Patron of the site here »

View Nested Linear
  • best films/directors are only loosely associated with the movement/on the fringe of it

    truffauts alright though. just watch everything by truffaut.

    georgiabeth | 20 Nov '14, 14:03 | X
  • Jules et Jim

    Jeremys_Iron | 20 Nov '14, 14:08 | X
    desertshore this'd this
    • Last Year at Marienbad as well.

      It's proper divisive but I love it. Dripping in existentialism.

      Jeremys_Iron @Jeremys_Iron | 20 Nov '14, 14:12 | X
      • lol this comes off like a sitcom quote

        magnificent_work @Jeremys_Iron | 20 Nov '14, 14:25 | X
  • fer Godard, most of his 60s stuff is good

    Breathless might be his best (maybe) I like Band A Part and Alphaville a lot.

    Last Year at Marienbad is amazing, definitely watch.

    Rivette's excellent, only seen a few of his though. he mostly seems to do really long films. Celine and Julie Go Boating is pretty great.

    Chabrol is interesting. mostly seen his late 60s/70s stuff, most of which is worth watching. Juste Avant La Nuit I liked in particular. most are pretty good takedowns of bourgeois scum though.

    never seen any Rohmer, dunno. didn't like the Jacques Demy film I've seen. ... Georges Franju is pretty good (Judex, La Tete Contre Les Murs and Eyes without a Face are all worth a look). Alain Robbe-Grillet is probably worth looking into.

    .... can't think of who else is associated roughly with it.

    noise_ramones | 20 Nov '14, 14:13 | X
    • you've fucking watched a Bresson with two DiSers

      magnificent_work @noise_ramones | 20 Nov '14, 14:21 | X
  • Always liked Godard's

    Week End

    NoahVale | 20 Nov '14, 14:17 | X
  • Alain Resnais ane Alain Robbe-Grillet are the dudes

    see Last Year At Marienbad immediately pls

    ethricdouble | 20 Nov '14, 14:28 | X
  • Oi prick-ponces,

    I've heard of most of these. Up your game!

    LaszloPanaflex | 20 Nov '14, 14:30 | X
    Smyth2, DarwinDude, and georgiabeth this'd this
  • Pierrot le Fou is really really good

    Fuzzy_Dunlop | 20 Nov '14, 14:31 | X
  • Le Mepris is greatest work of cinema and easily Godard's best

    Followed by pierrot le fou

    Chabrol is fun: la femme infidel

    Claire denis

    yes_ | 20 Nov '14, 14:32 | X
    • (not technically new wave but takes a lot from it)

      White material was good
      I like beau travail too

      yes_ @yes_ | 20 Nov '14, 14:32 | X
      • judging by some of the replies i don't think anyones being too strict as to what is new wave

        georgiabeth @yes_ | 20 Nov '14, 14:46 | X
        • ;) etc

          georgiabeth @georgiabeth | 20 Nov '14, 14:47 | X
          • something something Melville something I KNOW LOADS OF FRENCH DIRECTORS

            magnificent_work @georgiabeth | 20 Nov '14, 14:49 | X
            • Try this one on for size, ya buncha amateurs

              Robert Bresson: L'argent and Le Diable, probablement

              I watched the former in a freezing cold french uni amphitheatre (because why turn the heating on) and it was incredibly isolating.

              yes_ @magnificent_work | 20 Nov '14, 14:54 | X
            • not pretending i know everything about it, but there was more than one movement and it's really disheartening seeing all post-war french cinema being called 'nouvelle vague'. also it's important to say that even if i have wrote papers, and met with international academics and directors i don't give enough of a shit about it to be pedantic or anal about it.

              georgiabeth @magnificent_work | 20 Nov '14, 14:55 | X
              • also most of the oeuvre is existential white boy shit

                georgiabeth @georgiabeth | 20 Nov '14, 14:56 | X
                DarwinDude this'd this
                • :D

                  magnificent_work @georgiabeth | 20 Nov '14, 15:14 | X
              • yeah sorry I don't give a shit

                left bank, nouvelle vague, all the other stuff around at the time - the disctinctions don't really matter in the context of recommending stuff to a guy on an internet forum

                noise_ramones @georgiabeth | 20 Nov '14, 15:22 | X
                • 'Left bank, nouvelle vague, phenomenology

                  the distinctions don't really matter, as long as people on the internet get to see me say the words in some context"

                  yes_ @noise_ramones | 20 Nov '14, 15:33 | X
                  noise_ramones this'd this
                  • SORRY

                    it would have been much better if I'd just posted 'you think Hiroshima Mon Amour is nouvelle vague? ahahhaha'

                    noise_ramones @yes_ | 20 Nov '14, 15:42 | X
  • Le Corbusier et Papin

    crisps | 20 Nov '14, 14:32 | X
  • Taxi 2

    yuggy | 20 Nov '14, 14:53 | X
    • sorry I was being a prick. I never really took to French New Wave when I studied it. I still need to watch The 400 Blows actually.

      yuggy @yuggy | 20 Nov '14, 14:56 | X
  • French stuff doesn't really have any cultural capital any more, does it?

    Name dropping Godard and stuff used to carry a certain cache but it seems like nobody is impressed any more. I wonder why that is?
    Probably cos even france just wants to be germany/usa now

    yes_ | 20 Nov '14, 15:08 | X
    • You could argue this case for all film movements.

      Jeremys_Iron @yes_ | 20 Nov '14, 15:19 | X
    • probably not in the context of

      us all acting like unbearable idiots on the internet trying to one-up eachother with our film knowledge

      ethricdouble @yes_ | 20 Nov '14, 15:26 | X
    • it's tough out there for a filmwanker these days

      noise_ramones @yes_ | 20 Nov '14, 15:31 | X
      desertshore and magnificent_work this'd this
    • Cache

      is possibly my favourite french film, as it goes

      aggressively_passive @yes_ | 20 Nov '14, 15:39 | X
  • Jean Vigo's L'Atalante was apparently a big influence on a lot of the new wave types

    It's really good. That's all I've got.

    ThierryEnnui | 20 Nov '14, 15:39 | X
  • le mepris

    is the best jlg + Le Petit Soldat and Pierrot Le Fou. + Une Femme est une Femme is FUN
    Charlotte et son Jules and All the Boys Are Called Patrick, Masculine Feminine and Bande a Part if you are into Breathless like things
    Made in Usa and Weekend can be good
    I like eric rohmer's seasons trilogy and Claires knees

    Lola and Bay of angels are good

    Le Fou Follet is good and Lacombe Lucien and Murmur of the Heart
    Gods Country is the GOAT and probably the best of all the above films and one of my favourite films.
    vive le tour is on youtube too
    (sp)

    fluffybum | 20 Nov '14, 15:55 | X
    • really enjoyed Le Feu Follet

      always meant to check out some more of his

      ethricdouble @fluffybum | 20 Nov '14, 16:06 | X
  • if you loved Breathless you'll probably like everything in this thread

    TheKennedyCurse | 20 Nov '14, 17:44 | X
    RFWare this'd this
  • No mention of Les Bonnes Femmes?

    You bunch of dilettantes. Good film that.

    eltham | 20 Nov '14, 18:17 | X
  • i only really watch Slovakian cinema nowadays.

    pencils | 20 Nov '14, 18:31 | X
    malick this'd this
  • preferred the czech new wave, mate

    (this is actually probably true)

    Has anyone mentioned Agnes Varda? I didn't like Cleo from 5 to 7 but Le Pointe Courte was pretty good

    The Swimming Pool, with Alain Delon, is very good

    I think I like Chabrol and Clouzot more than the typical new wavers.

    I'm boring myself

    malick | 20 Nov '14, 18:57 | X
Share on
   
Love DiS? Become a Patron of the site here »
View Nested Linear
« Back to Social

Report this thread
Drowned in Sound
  • DROWNED IN SOUND
  • HOME
  • SITE MAP
  • NEWS
  • IN DEPTH
  • IN PHOTOS
  • RECORDS
  • RECOMMENDED RECORDS
  • ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
  • FESTIVAL COVERAGE
  • COMMUNITY
  • MUSIC FORUM
  • SOCIAL BOARD
  • REPORT ERRORS
  • CONTACT US
  • JOIN OUR MAILING LIST
  • FOLLOW DiS
  • GOOGLE+
  • FACEBOOK
  • TWITTER
  • SHUFFLER
  • TUMBLR
  • YOUTUBE
  • RSS FEED
  • RSS EMAIL SUBSCRIBE
  • MISC
  • TERM OF USE
  • PRIVACY
  • ADVERTISING
  • OUR WIKIPEDIA
© 2000-2018 DROWNED IN SOUND