Somebody HELP ME I'm dying....French film
Roger Wilco
J.
Bed Sores
"Hillary Rife" <hillyb...@home.com> wrote in message
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> Look fools, I need to know what the name of the French form of movies that
> had all kinds of crazy shit in it. Lack of continuity, surrealism, actors
> in multiple roles, etc. Please help me. I will be quite grateful.
>
> Any examples of films, names of artists, website links, or anything info
> would be tremendously helpful. Thanks.
>
>
Hillary Rife
slbarger
Fred G
caps. Sorry, we have respect for these filmmakers and their movies with "all
kinds of crazy shit in it".)
Someone said "impressionism" is one post. That's wrong. French Impressionism
is about painting artistry (Renoir, Manet, Monet, Cézanne...), not about movie
making.
Frédérick (from Paris, France.:))
cold hands
(Not to be confused with the British New Wave that involved a lot of
mohicans and glue sniffing) was responsible for the notion of the director
as auteur or author of the film.
This was true for Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle and Claude
Chabrol (who wrote, directed edited and acted in their movies) but has now
become so misused that virtually every director thinks he or she is a genius
and hence the ubiquitous "A film by..." that makes all us writers go
GRRRR!!!
As well as the list SS Johnny provided, you should check out Breathless aka
À bout de souffle (1959). Not to be confused with the Richard Gere, steamy
but passionless, remake of 1983.
For websites check out www.foreignfilms.com , they have biographies, lists
of films and links to other sites.
--
Anyway...
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MC
wrote:
> I guess you're talking about La Nouvelle Vague. (in France, we write it
> with caps.
Doesn't that break the rules of French punctuation? Titles don't usually
get the *all* caps treatment -- usually just the first word and any
proper names -- n'est-ce pas?
MC
> French Impressionism is about painting artistry (Renoir, Manet, Monet, Cézanne...), not about
> movie making.
Unless it's the films of Renoir fils...
;-)
Fred G
the Nouvelle Vague. :-)
MC wrote:
> In article <39DC4BBA...@yahoo.fr>, Fred G <tiv...@yahoo.fr>
> wrote:
>
Bed Sores
"Fred G" <tiv...@yahoo.fr> wrote in message
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> I guess you're talking about La Nouvelle Vague. (in France, we write it
with
> kinds of crazy shit in it".)
>
Impressionism
> is about painting artistry (Renoir, Manet, Monet, Cézanne...), not about
movie
> making.
>
I was the someone who said "impressionism". I suspect the poster was
actually talking about New Wave, but it had already been given so I offered
another alternative. You are incorrect when you say that impressionism does
not have anything to do with movie making. Perhaps you are correct from your
own perspective, but certain forms of film are in fact referred to as that,
at least in my country. French Impressionism was preceded by German
Expressionism and was followed by Surrealism. All borrowing their terms from
what is initially considered only applicable to painting artistry.
Gary Pollard
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> I guess you're talking about La Nouvelle Vague. (in France, we write it
with
> caps. Sorry, we have respect for these filmmakers and their movies with
> kinds of crazy shit in it".)
Sometimes, Frédérick , when you see the delight some wannabe and working
Hollywood scriptwriters take in being low-brow crapheads for whom the word
"art" is the ultimate insult, it's not hard to understand why Tinsel Town
makes the dreck it makes.
It ain't always the producers' fault. I've finally come to the conlusion
that most of the worst garbage I've seen lately is down to the writers.
Gary
Eddie Haynes-Smart
> when you see the delight some wannabe and working
>Hollywood scriptwriters take in being low-brow crapheads for whom the word
>"art" is the ultimate insult, it's not hard to understand why Tinsel Town
>makes the dreck it makes.
>
>It ain't always the producers' fault. I've finally come to the conlusion
>that most of the worst garbage I've seen lately is down to the writers.
Wow! Strong words. Could only come from an internationally-recognised film
industry leader with impeccable credentials!
I'm impressed
etc
Gary Pollard
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> Wow! Strong words. Could only come from an internationally-recognised film
> industry leader with impeccable credentials!
>
> I'm impressed
We could trade resumes if you like
Otherwise, try to be a little less of an anal orifice.
Gary
Ruben
Baise Moi is a cool movie. A production of Canal+. The kind of movie they
broadcast almost every night on the second channel. ;-)
Ruben
BTW: I never watch those movies, offcourse.
Eddie Haynes-Smart
>>Hollywood scriptwriters ... being low-brow crapheads for whom the word
>>"art" is the ultimate insult ... it's why Tinsel Town makes the dreck it
>>makes ... the worst garbage I've seen lately is down to the writers.
>eddie (innocent newbie) was impressed with this authoritative viewpoint
GARY POLLARD responds> We could trade resumes
not necessary - I am already impressed (salaams all round)
GARY POLLARD further> try to be less of an anal orifice.
temper, temper, dear boy - don't take yourself too seriously - do yourself
an injury soon - beware the dreaded brain aneurism - it lurks, old son, it
lurks