Last Movie You Watched

[André]

Ken Russell in a 1968 music biopic  - before he became self-obsessed with outré artist lives:


Frederick Delius' last years on this earth - and Eric Fenby's coming of age.

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classRev/2001/Dec01/Delius_Russell.htm

Wiki article (recommended):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Summer


Available on youtube:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyy2SagDwcY

[Drasko]

Solid B stuff

[SimonNZ]

Still Alice

Superb acting from Julianne Moore in charting the rapid mental deteriation following a diagnoisis of early onset Alzheimers.

For me a film like this is more terrifying than any horror film.

[listener]

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
directed by Terence Young       Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya (acting, not singing)       still looks and sounds terrific
A really good commentary track compiled from various sources, not some cast or production members putting in extra time.

[Karl Henning]

Listened to the commentary on To Catch a Thief, roughly equal parts fun and informative.

[James]

Pan's Labyrinth
2006 ‧ Fantasy/Drama film ‧ 1h 59m

In 1944 Spain young Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) and her ailing mother (Ariadna Gil) arrive at the post of her mother's new husband (Sergi López), a sadistic army officer who is trying to quell a guerrilla uprising. While exploring an ancient maze, Ofelia encounters the faun Pan, who tells her that she is a legendary lost princess and must complete three dangerous tasks in order to claim immortality.

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[NikF]

Dialogue avec mon jardinier/Conversations with My Gardener (2007)   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825244/

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men...

Unsurprising, undemanding and perhaps at points daringly close to becoming twee, however in this role Daniel Auteuil wields a limited palette with comfortable ease. At the very least a charming diversion.



The cinematographer is Jean-Marie Dreujou, who also lensed 'The Girl on the Bridge' and 'Man on the Train' - both of which I found pleasing on the eye.

[listener]

for Hallowe'en
RATU SAKTI CALONARANG    Indonesia 1999    on vcd  no subtitles
directed by Siswaro Gautama Putra  and starring Suzanna and Barry Prima
like a vividly  coloured, Asian, unsophisticated Ed Wood production might be

[aligreto]

Dialogue avec mon jardinier/Conversations with My Gardener (2007)   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825244/

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men...

Unsurprising, undemanding and perhaps at points daringly close to becoming twee, however in this role Daniel Auteuil wields a limited palette with comfortable ease. At the very least a charming diversion.



The cinematographer is Jean-Marie Dreujou, who also lensed 'The Girl on the Bridge' and 'Man on the Train' - both of which I found pleasing on the eye.

I will watch out for that one 

[James]

Pieces
1982 ‧ Slasher/Mystery ‧ 1h 30m

A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.

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[NikF]

I will watch out for that one 

Well, if you do I hope you enjoy it. I find watching Daniel Auteuil is usually worthwhile. His range is relatively wide; he does the somewhat stereotypically hardened cop who chases a serial killer in Mr 73 -

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- the unlikeable businessman having an affair with a fashion model in the simple comedy La Doublure

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- and poor obsessed Ugolin in Manon des Sources

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- which happen to be the next three films I'm going to (re)watch.

[Spineur]

Au programme ce soir

at the glory of the 28 yo Emmanuelle Beart.
There is another more recent movie on the same subject by Fernando Trueda, which I havent seen

Rivette is in my pantheon of french cinema.

[Karl Henning]

"Noirvember"?

Really?

[NikF]

Au programme ce soir

at the glory of the 28 yo Emmanuelle Beart.

If this is the original (almost four hours?) the I feel it's superior to 'L'artiste et son modèle'. However I think Rochefort is marvellous in the latter. Also, I'd the pleasure of seeing it presented via Blu-ray as part of a demo in a studio and it looked wonderful. And yeah, 28 year old Beart is a sight to behold indeed.

e: maybe after you get to see 'L'artiste et son modèle' you can post any thoughts on it?

[aligreto]

Well, if you do I hope you enjoy it. I find watching Daniel Auteuil is usually worthwhile. His range is relatively wide; he does the somewhat stereotypically hardened cop who chases a serial killer in Mr 73 -

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- the unlikeable businessman having an affair with a fashion model in the simple comedy La Doublure

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- and poor obsessed Ugolin in Manon des Sources

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- which happen to be the next three films I'm going to (re)watch.

Agreed on Daniel Auteuil.
I have Manon des Sources but I have not seen the other two. Cheers for that.

[Spineur]

Two other major roles of Daniel Auteuil are le huitieme jour for which he got a prize at the Cannes festival
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and la reine margot where he plays the role of Henri de Navarre future Henri IV
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But as I mentionned earlier, it is his role in Un coeur en Hiver (Claude Sautet) which has the spot closest to my heart.

[NikF]

Two other major roles of Daniel Auteuil are le huitieme jour for which he got a prize at the Cannes festival
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and la reine margot where he plays the role of Henri de Navarre future Henri IV
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I've seen the first but not the second. Another that I enjoyed was 'Caché' -

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But as I mentionned earlier, it is his role in Un coeur en Hiver (Claude Sautet) which has the spot closest to my heart.

If I compiled a 'top 10' listing of my favourite films, that one would comfortably reside within it.

[André]

Auteuil is a fabulous actor. I've seen the above films, but not Sautet's Un coeur en hiver.

[listener]

Lubitsch's TROUBLE IN PARADISE  1932
Hopkins, Kay Francis,, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, C. Aubrey Smith
not the Criterion edition but a good transfer on a British Eureka Masters of Cinema one that was much less expensive.
Astounding to compare the technical advances in sound and cinematography with THE GREAT GABBO from three years earlier.

[aligreto]

Two other major roles of Daniel Auteuil are le huitieme jour for which he got a prize at the Cannes festival
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and la reine margot where he plays the role of Henri de Navarre future Henri IV
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But as I mentionned earlier, it is his role in Un coeur en Hiver (Claude Sautet) which has the spot closest to my heart.

I've seen the first but not the second. Another that I enjoyed was 'Caché' -

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If I compiled a 'top 10' listing of my favourite films, that one would comfortably reside within it.

I have La Reine Margot and Caché but I have not seen  Le Huitieme Jour - another one for the List