Crazy Love AKA Love is a Dog From Hell (Dominique Deruddere, 1987)

Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959)

野火
Nobi
JP, 108 min

Rembrandt Laughing (Jon Jost, 1988)

Jon Jost’s ninth feature focuses rather elliptically on the everyday lives of a group of friends in San Francisco–chiefly Claire (Barbara Hammes), who works in an architect’s office, two of her former lovers (Jon A. English and Nathaniel Dorsky), who are close friends, and a recent boyfriend (Jim Nisbet). Masterfully shot and for the most part very persuasively acted, mainly by nonprofessionals (the film’s use of locals is one reason it captures the San Francisco milieu so perfectly), Rembrandt Laughing is a good deal more ambitious than it might first appear. A sense of the timeless and the cosmic hovers over the seemingly casual scenes, and the uses of a Rembrandt self-portrait and Beethoven’s opus 132 string quartet are integral to the film’s overall project–to discover the universe in a bowl of miso soup. Part of Jost’s method, like Godard’s in A Married Woman, is to convert the dramatic into the graphic, and his various means of carrying that out are unexpected and frequently beautiful (1988).

On the Edge (John Carney, 2001)

wiki | hulu

Kind of like every other in-ward pyschriatic ward movie ever, except Irish.  Cillian Murphy is definitely an eye-full (jaw-line much?)

That’s right, bars on the screencaps.  I’m lazy like that.

A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)

imdb | wiki

(this movie gets a stephen cyberpunk thumbs up)

Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980)

121 min. wiki :: imdb :: allmovie :: rotten tomatoes

Autumn in Suburbia
I had a pause and do other things a few times-
Amazing actors all around.

Saute ma Ville (Chantal Akerman, 1968)

Belgium, 12 min.

imdb :: bourbon and tea

The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, 1930)

Fr. Le Sang d’un Poete, 55 min.

Cocteau’s first film, and the first film of what Criterion has dubbed the “Orphic Trilogy.”  Here he establishes themes and methods that he uses again and again in his films.

Mirrors would do well
to reflect further
before throwing back images.

the Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)

le Locataire
FR, 126 min

Paranoia, neighbors, suicides, menacing apartment building, drab ’70s interior design…  I don’t need much else, personally. GOOD TENSE FUN, plus Polanski-as-actor bonus.

Le Diable Probablement (Robert Bresson, 1977)

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Diable_probablement

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