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grigorss - 2008-08-17 05:27:39
Film Forum's French Crime Wave series has quite the stellar line-up -- in particular I would recommend Bresson's A Man Escaped; and of course, anything by Melville -- and if you haven't experienced Les Yeux Sans Visage, it's a must-see; despite the subject matter, not really a horror film; more of a gothic melodrama, really (although I'd be the first to admit there's considerable overlap between the two)
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iwombat - 2008-08-18 00:09:45
recently (last two months) I've seen ronin (Fr), Bob Le Flambeur (fr), big deal on madonna street (It), Asphalt Jungle (USA), and The Killing (US), so if you see me wearing pommade, that's why...
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2fs - 2008-08-18 02:13:52
Your description reminded me that I had seen The Red Circle (can't remember the French from here) - and that every time I've seen Bob le Flambeur, I've renewed my mad crush on whoever the female lead is... (too lazy to IMDB it right now).
But yes: similarly, I think I had a glob entry a year or so back rhapsodizing about the way good movies evoke not only a time and place via objects and their details, but also convey something of the world of that time by means of what those objects say about their makers and users.
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Mr Lojban - 2008-08-18 04:02:49
The robbery itself, one long extended scene in real time with virtually no dialogue [...]
I am reminded of Rififi, which I think is/was part of this series. If memory serves, that movie was banned in the US for some time due to the meticulous detail of the heist scene, although Wikipedia claims that Mexico, rather, was the scene of the ban.
+1 on Les yeux sans visage.
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Paula - 2008-08-18 16:24:54
Rififi has been on my Netflix queue for over a year, but this has inspired me to nudge it up a few places. Thanks.
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Rbrt - 2008-08-19 10:03:12
Let me re-recommend "Cleo from 5 to 7" then - it unfolds in real time, and mundanity would be its middle name, if movies had middle names. (Bonus: the main character's a pop singer.)
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Paula - 2008-08-19 12:32:15
Nice! Thanks. Someone else told me about a movie called Diamond Men that features all kinds of workaday scenes of the diamond industry amidst its thriller plot.
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