Dulian

A Place in the Sun - George Stevens

Phantom Thread - PTA

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Phantom Thread (2017)

We would live in a different but better world if Milos Forman's most famous and revered period film was Valmont and to Amaudes
Imagine a Simpson episode spoofing the Marteuil/Valmont dynamic

those were the days

Probably one of the most underrated war films ever. Lyrical, but it doesn't romanticize one thing, and the heroes of the resistance are portrayed as deeply human and thus flawed individuals
A great double bill would be with The Wages of Fear

There's no Evil (2020) or Watching a Short Film about Killing (1989) in Tehran.

4 loosely interconnected stories about death penality in Iran. The genius writing in each episode reveals a bit more and recontextualize the meaning we gave to the previous ones. A moral masterpiece

straight-on shot of Chow Yun-fat on his motorcycle against a bright red background

closeup on Chow Yun-fat's switchblade, which he's holding in a hand wearing a fingerless glove. there's blood on the blade, and rain dripping onto it

closeup on Chow Yun-fat, on right side of frame, a cute girl lighting his cigarette

a blue dissolve between a close-up of Chow Yun-fat and his girlfriend swimming in a pool

Full Contact appreciation post

YouTube video by Fashion Neurosis Charlotte Gainsbourg on A Good Pair of Jeans, Shyness vs Modesty, and Grief | Fashion Neurosis

Next one hour and half just sorted

Manhunter

Manhunter

Hiding

Tom Noonan was immense

Duval, in full priest garb, swinging in an SF park next to a child.

my favorite Robert Duvall role is where he appears as a priest on a swing for 2 seconds for no apparent reason in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Needed this. I’m ashamed to say I haven’t watched any of his work yet, so this will help me pick at what to look at firte

Amour

decision to leave

Turkish Delight

Oasis

Unconventional romantic

Amour
Decision To Leave
Turkish Delight
Oasis

Still from Chungking Express film with a man on pay phone saying "Password is Love You for 10,000 Years"

❤️

French Antichrist (2009) starring Mastroianni and Deneuve directed by Trintignant's wife? I'll definitely have to watch this

also, more prosaically, he's so inventive with the camera. A french arthouse de palma knock off is still not bad

A lot of fucked up, performative shit happens in his movies, but his party loving personality always shines and feels truthful, even among the Celine and Cioran like lines. Climax encapsulates this. "Life is a short party that will soon be forgotten". despite the bleakness he fights this oblivion

I too was strongly influenced at the beginning by those lists of the 10 most transgressive films, where Noè, von Trier, and that Bertolucci were always featured. I'm not as into him as I once was, but i still feel akin to his youtfful, almost immature, nihilism

I have to say that I always liked Jane Eyre more than Whuthering Heights and I’ll use this post as a self reminder that I need to watch the adaptation where Charlotte Gainbsourg plays Jane

What prompted your, seemingly to me at least, renewed interested in Noè? Important director for me when I was younger, and still is in some ways

A cathedral reflected upside down, exaggerated and warped

A woman clinging to a lamppost in pain

A marionette covering another in a funeral shroud

A glass ball, reflecting, between two fingers The Double Life of Véronique (1991), Krzysztof Kieślowski

I was swept off my feet so dramatically by Kieślowski’s Three Colors that I’m surprised it’s taken me so long to get to The Double Life of Véronique (1991). A bewitching anti-horror, what easily could’ve been a surrealist nightmare, given as a beguiling brew of ugly colors smelted into enchantment.

Still from Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

One of my favorites first feature. I prefer Argento with his giallo hat - and gloves - on to some of his later horror work.
Deep Red is ultmate achievement bcs it's where these two souls blends seamlessly.
The camera eye is superior to our senses. If we weren't so faulty we'd have solved the case

Thanks to my good friend, @benhasglasses.bsky.social isolating Frank Silva's voice from multiple sources, we're now able to see this powerful #TwinPeaks #FireWalkWithMe moment exactly how it was detailed in the script.

**Nudity has been removed.

Fallen Angels revisit tonight. Maybe my favorite style-as-substance movie

Tom Edison? The philosopher who tried to reawake the morality of the people of Dogville??

Top 10 Westerns:

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
McCabe & Mrs Miller
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Once Upon a time in the West
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Searchers
Rio Bravo
Bad Day at Black Rock
High Plains Drifter
El Topo

Now I feel kinda bad you had to do all that work lol Well, even If not many see it at least you made me add like 15 really interesting looking films on my watchlist

Yeah, if you can it would be nice. Sadly probably there aren’t as many people interested about it on here, but be the change you wanna see in the world yada yada. it could encourage more people to post about arthouse cinema in a certain way on bsky too

Of course Possession, but also India Song. Those shades of green!

You always had a nice eye for DPs. I used to have bookmarked your thread about your favorite cinematogrophies on twitter

Jane Birkin holding her chin, looking sexily disheveled, I mean wow, look at that, insane, how do you walk around looking like that, insanity. Merde

Jane Birkin and an older French actress lounging in bed against a green wall with some soft shadows projected across them

Jane Birkin and Maruschka Detmers. The former in shade against a white door with black iron panels, the latter with her face light in cavernous darkness on the right

Birkin and Detmers lit low-key on a yellow-gray stone wall, with deep black shadows projected on it

The Prodigal Daughter, also with Birkin is quite good too.

La Pirate, shot by Bruno Nuytten, one of the greatest French cinema DPs, (last 2 stills) is very ravishingly beautiful. Amazing dark tones

I've wanted to watch some of his staff for so long, I need to get around La Pirate especially. Jane Birkin starring in one one of your movies in the 80s is the cheat chode