Comments on douglangsfilmblog: The Golden Age of “Foreign” Film

excellent choice on th werckmeister my friend, i t...

2007-08-17T21:41:00.000-07:00

excellent choice on th werckmeister my friend, i think it will not disappoint.

i like some of the haneke i've seen, can't remember the titles tho and will spare you the inept plot summaries i might produce.

t.

Yeah, the entire Godard thing is absurd. Unbelieva...

2007-08-15T15:27:00.000-07:00

Yeah, the entire Godard thing is absurd. Unbelievable even while being totally believable.

Never heard of Bela Tarr before. I went right to the IMDB and then to Amazon, where I ordered Werckmeister harmóniák.

My current "foreign" favorites are:

Michael Haneke -- check out Funny Games, or Code Iconnu, or any of his movies, if you have not seen them yet. Apparently, an American version of Funny Games is being made, with Naomi Watts, I believe,
and that's kind of odd.

Kar Wai Wong, esp. In the Mood for Love & 2046.

notre musique and eloge de l'amour are some of the...

2007-08-13T21:40:00.000-07:00

notre musique and eloge de l'amour are some of the most provocative and engaging films i've ever seen and (unlike most) could easily watch over and over.

but it has indeed frustrated me since i first began to get a sense of godard's oeuvre how much of it is simply unavailable for viewing -- in any format. and we're not even talking about the dziga vertov group shorts or the 10+ hour series done for french tv -- just forget about getting yr hands on those. i mean the feature-length films, dozens of them, that cannot be viewed right now in this country, anywhere, any format.

i can't help thinking that in the same way out-of-print and otherwise commercially unavailable music now circulates on the internet, film might find or perhaps is finding its way towards a similar means of circulation.

bela tarr is my most recent eastern european favorite.

t.