"It’s all true. I don’t know what truth is, though.
I think it’s a lot truer than I intended it to be."
I think it’s a lot truer than I intended it to be."
Alma Har'el on her film 'Bombay Beach' which I would like to see very, very, very badly.
Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts
Monday, October 17, 2011
Friday, June 4, 2010
Patience
Patience is a virtue, and one of the only virtues I can claim. Years ago, I saw Claire Denis' brilliant film US Go Home during a Film Festival retrospective. As soon as I watched it in the stillness and darkness of the Forum Theatre, I wanted to rewatch it and show it to friends and linger over scenes and sit it on my shelf or post up dumb links to the best bits of it. Co-written by Denis and the French cinema royalty of Anne Wiazemsky*, the film was the first outing for the fictional brother/sister pairing of Alice Houri and Gregoire Colin who Denis then cast again as brother and sister in one of my favourite flicks Nenette et Boni.
But, to this day, it is has not been released on VHS or DVD and both the film, and Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge, the suite of films that it was commissioned alongside, seem intended only for television broadcast. I wrote to the producers at one point begging for a copy. I wrote to some other chump at the television station. All to no avail. But now, years have passed, and some cheeky little lover has finally posted up one of the best scenes onto youtube. Thankfully, I do a youtube search on US Go Home every few months and finally, yesterday, I got my reward.
When I wrote about my favourite dance scenes many months back, this scene easily counted amongst them, but I have not been able to link to it... Until now. Hold your breath. Wait for it. And dig:
* Here she is with Jean-Pierre Léaud in La Chinoise:
And, again in La Chinoise:
And, of course, in her debut with Bresson:
But, to this day, it is has not been released on VHS or DVD and both the film, and Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge, the suite of films that it was commissioned alongside, seem intended only for television broadcast. I wrote to the producers at one point begging for a copy. I wrote to some other chump at the television station. All to no avail. But now, years have passed, and some cheeky little lover has finally posted up one of the best scenes onto youtube. Thankfully, I do a youtube search on US Go Home every few months and finally, yesterday, I got my reward.
When I wrote about my favourite dance scenes many months back, this scene easily counted amongst them, but I have not been able to link to it... Until now. Hold your breath. Wait for it. And dig:
* Here she is with Jean-Pierre Léaud in La Chinoise:
And, again in La Chinoise:
And, of course, in her debut with Bresson:
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Cinema loves cinema
Cinema loves cinema. It's never more apparent than when a film comes to a halt for a dance scene that revels in stopping time. There's nothing better to my mind.
from: A Bande a Part (d: J-L Godard)
from: The Conformist (d: B. Bertolucci)
from: Surviving Desire (d: Hal Hartley)
from: The Ordeal (d: Fabrice du Welz)
from: Incredible Rumour (d: Kin-Yip Ho)
aside: This stream of thought reminds me of a recent conversation where a filmmaker who had been responsible for making some of the coolest films of the 90s was lamenting the lack of 'cool' in films these days. There is nothing as cool as a killer dance scene that is not an inherent part of the narrative but simply a precise expression of the rhythm or emotion or swagger of a film.
These are three of the coolest:
from: Head-On (d: Fatih Akin) - one of my all time favourite films - "punk is noooot dead"
from: Vivre Sa Vie (d: J-L Godard) - also one of my all time favourite films. incredible precision in exploring hope, ambition and misery.
from: Beau Travail (d: Claire Denis)
(nb - Denis also created an amazing dance scene in 'US Go Home' but this only seems available on print and there are no DVDs etc... it kills me... I'd love to see this film again...)
from: A Bande a Part (d: J-L Godard)
from: The Conformist (d: B. Bertolucci)
from: Surviving Desire (d: Hal Hartley)
from: The Ordeal (d: Fabrice du Welz)
from: Incredible Rumour (d: Kin-Yip Ho)
aside: This stream of thought reminds me of a recent conversation where a filmmaker who had been responsible for making some of the coolest films of the 90s was lamenting the lack of 'cool' in films these days. There is nothing as cool as a killer dance scene that is not an inherent part of the narrative but simply a precise expression of the rhythm or emotion or swagger of a film.
These are three of the coolest:
from: Head-On (d: Fatih Akin) - one of my all time favourite films - "punk is noooot dead"
from: Vivre Sa Vie (d: J-L Godard) - also one of my all time favourite films. incredible precision in exploring hope, ambition and misery.
from: Beau Travail (d: Claire Denis)
(nb - Denis also created an amazing dance scene in 'US Go Home' but this only seems available on print and there are no DVDs etc... it kills me... I'd love to see this film again...)
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