>No one batted an eye at that - is MARIE-CHANTAL really good?
>
Seen only on TV, decades ago, I liked it a lot, and still remember its
wildly playful editing. Chabrol treats the story here as near-camp, but
if I remember it right there's a great cut to an overhead shot, as in
from an airplane, during a car ride. The related "Le Tigre se parfume à
la dynamite <http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0061095/>" isn't as good;
Chabrol's attitude toward his material is indicated there by a scene in
which he acts a cameo, hilariously overplaying his role as a fish
surgeon by acting like a movie director.
Marie-Chantal I would watch again on video or DVD, if anyone knows a
source. But I doubt it's one of the greatest ones: "Le Scandale" (aka
"The Champagne Murders"), now that's a great one.
I’ll try to approach Chabrol sort of chronologically as the man is too full of high and lows and I have miss key periods. From his early period (58-63) I’v...
... Seen only on TV, decades ago, I liked it a lot, and still remember its wildly playful editing. Chabrol treats the story here as near-camp, but if I...
I just saw Modesty Blaise for the first time on Sunday. It wore me down towards the end but I fell in love with its chutzpah, I'd guess you'd have to call it....
... down ... you'd have to call ... that lazy ... Beat the ... is as heavy-handed in Modesty as it is subtle in Beat. I don't think Modesty Blaise was at all a...
I believe it did OK, but wasn't quite the "blockbuster" some had hoped for. "Beat the Devil" is a good comparasion in tone of dialogue delivery. ... ...
I'll second Fred Camper's enthusiasm for "The Champagne Murders" (Chabrol). The apartment scene around 2/3 along is especially well done. The complex set is in...
... (Chabrol). ... complex set ... and try to orient ... feel, ... Krohn, that ... Gracefulness, ... and they are perhaps ... Certainly, you *will* get...
... I'm happy to admit that this reaction is my personal quirk, because it's extreme. I begin to plunge into a clinical depression 10 minutes into any Chabrol...
... My take on Chabrol is that his oeuvre is about the intrinsic impurity of people. He is quite capable of creating characters who perform virtuous acts,...
Bill, you refer to a reference to Fassbinder on Chabrol: but if that's the famous INSECTS IN A GLASS CASE essay, isn't that all about Fassbinder DISLIKING...
... Fassbinder adored Chabrol, but was disappointed in "Nada" which, he felt, treated terrorism too fliply. His reaction was to make "The Third Generation" --...
... that's ... My mistake. "RWF dedicated Love Is Colder Than Death (1969) to Chabrol, Rohmer and Straub. Soon he would realize that the former didn't love his...
It might be interesting to compare Chabrol to an older prolific director, Sidney Lumet. Lumet makes a good film every 4 or 5 outings; Chabrol, every 8 or 10....
... In fact, I now think that maybe he has. I've just seen Lumet's latest, "Find Me Guilty," and think it may be his masterpiece to date--certainly his most...
... <jrosenbaum2002@...> wrote: I've just seen Lumet's ... Did you see Lumet's HBO film STRIP SEARCH? It's a truly remarkable - and VERY Brechtian - work about...
First, apologies for mixing up Thanks for the Chocolate (which I went to sleep in) and Flower of Evil, which I haven't seen, and certainly will. Thinking about...
... Clearly he's not afraid of anything. Or else he is so very good at faking not being afraid that he ended up actually not being afraid... And to connect...
... What ... Lacerating critics with razor sharp minds and long CdC association who know he can't really compete with Bunuel maybe? Just kidding, Bill. I...
... That's one I want to see again. And it's for sure no one but CC could have made it! I'm surprised no one has mentioned Cry of the Owl and Poulet au...
... "Cry of the Owl" is his only Highsmith adaptation -- whcih is odd considering the fact that he's been playing with Highsmoth themes since "Les Cousins." ...
... Actually, no. Here is what actually happened (this is quoted from my piece, and it's something I would not have written without research, though don't...
... drop ... I very much enjoyed interviewing him when he visited London around the time of L'ENFER's release. I asked him what contemporary American directors...
... I asked him what contemporary American ... THE ... Ah. What's unique about Partie de plaisir is that Gegauff and the wife he battered played themselves in...
... I'd love to ... He wrote a memoir a few years back that hasn't been translated into English. The Visconti family hates him like poison. He left Berger a...
CC has obviously left a mark on me. I watched Bubble: The DVD last night and thought, "This is a subject Chabrol could've done," except that it's shot like a...
... Chabrol is the banner-carrier for smallness: his hilarious "Little Themes" essay in Cahiers is a famous argument against largeness having any particular...
... Quite true. Raymond Durgnat was for years the only english-spoeaking critic to point out that "Breathless" is unapologetically right-wing -- as is much of...
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