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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Feb 20, 2020 22:30:57 GMT
Coup de Torchon & The Clockmaker rank up there for me.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Feb 21, 2020 4:10:08 GMT
Haven't seen that many, sad to say, but one of my all time favorite films, period, is A Sunday in the Country (1984). Oh, what a beauty that is! Wonderful story and exceptional direction by Tavernier in which the camera never stops moving, but never draws attention to itself; rather it's an elegant ballet entirely in the service of the story. Incredibly beautiful. I believe the only other film of his I've seen is 'Round Midnight (1986), which I admired and enjoyed greatly and also think is a fine film. But I don't think it's as good as the A Sunday in the Country. He's clearly a real artist. I wish I had seen so many more of his films, but they have escaped me through the years. Doubt I'll ever be able to catch up.  enjoyed 'round midnight! have not seen a Sunday in the Country---i will have to check it out---thx!
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Post by london777 on Feb 21, 2020 14:13:14 GMT
Laissez-passer (Safe Conduct) (2002) is a great movie about French directors working for the German Continental studios during the occupation. It is a bit clunky during the "action" sequences but otherwise excellent. A "must see" for anyone interested in the history of French film.
On the strength of that I invested in In the Electric Mist (2009), awful, and 'Round Midnight (1986), where I could not get past the first fifteen minutes because of incomprehensible dialog. Because spider liked it I will give it another go.
I also bought his My Voyage through French Cinema (2016), which has a lot of fascinating gossip and clips, but failed give me the grounding in French classic cinema before Nouvelle Vague for which I was hoping. It is a very personal memoir (fair enough), and I suspect Tavernier is exercising a few old grudges. It then occurred to me the same might apply to Laissez-passer (above).
Coup de torchon (1981) and L'horloger de Saint-Paul (1974) are on my shopping-list, but so are 150 other titles (and I have just offended my landlord by being unable to lend him the ten bucks he needs for pain-killers).
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Post by teleadm on Feb 21, 2020 18:06:38 GMT
london777I could't get into In the Electric Mist myself.
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Post by Rufus-T on Feb 21, 2020 19:02:08 GMT
I saw only Beatrice. Mainly for Julie Delpy. The movie was a bit disappointing.  |
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Feb 23, 2020 6:03:13 GMT
Haven't seen that many, sad to say, but one of my all time favorite films, period, is A Sunday in the Country (1984). Oh, what a beauty that is! Wonderful story and exceptional direction by Tavernier in which the camera never stops moving, but never draws attention to itself; rather it's an elegant ballet entirely in the service of the story. Incredibly beautiful. I believe the only other film of his I've seen is 'Round Midnight (1986), which I admired and enjoyed greatly and also think is a fine film. But I don't think it's as good as the A Sunday in the Country. He's clearly a real artist. I wish I had seen so many more of his films, but they have escaped me through the years. Doubt I'll ever be able to catch up. Completely agree with you on "A Sunday in the Country". I know I watched "Round Midnight" but I don't remember much about it. "La Vie et Rien d'Autre" is a film I would like to watch again. I remember liking it a lot when it came out.
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Post by theravenking on Feb 24, 2020 14:03:33 GMT
I've only seen a few of his films.
Coup de Torchon was interesting, but didn't live up to the source material by Jim Thompson in my opinion.
La Princesse De Montpensier was okay, exquisitely made, but it left me rather cold.
I thought that In The Electric Mist was an excellent thriller, but I seem to remember that Tavernier clashed with the producers about the final cut and was unhappy about the movie.
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