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French new wave, cahiers de cinema etc.
(a thread for total wankers)
recently seen breathless, the 400 blows and hiroshima mon amour.
they're all ace, recommendations please!
(a thread for total wankers)
recently seen breathless, the 400 blows and hiroshima mon amour.
they're all ace, recommendations please!
best films/directors are only loosely associated with the movement/on the fringe of it
truffauts alright though. just watch everything by truffaut.
Jules et Jim
Last Year at Marienbad as well.
It's proper divisive but I love it. Dripping in existentialism.
lol this comes off like a sitcom quote
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.
you've fucking watched a Bresson with two DiSers
Always liked Godard's
Week End
Alain Resnais ane Alain Robbe-Grillet are the dudes
see Last Year At Marienbad immediately pls
Oi prick-ponces,
I've heard of most of these. Up your game!
Pierrot le Fou is really really good
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
(not technically new wave but takes a lot from it)
White material was good
I like beau travail too
judging by some of the replies i don't think anyones being too strict as to what is new wave
;) etc
something something Melville something I KNOW LOADS OF FRENCH DIRECTORS
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.
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.
also most of the oeuvre is existential white boy shit
:D
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
'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"
SORRY
it would have been much better if I'd just posted 'you think Hiroshima Mon Amour is nouvelle vague? ahahhaha'
Le Corbusier et Papin
Taxi 2
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.
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
You could argue this case for all film movements.
probably not in the context of
us all acting like unbearable idiots on the internet trying to one-up eachother with our film knowledge
it's tough out there for a filmwanker these days
Cache
is possibly my favourite french film, as it goes
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.
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)
really enjoyed Le Feu Follet
always meant to check out some more of his
if you loved Breathless you'll probably like everything in this thread
No mention of Les Bonnes Femmes?
You bunch of dilettantes. Good film that.
i only really watch Slovakian cinema nowadays.
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