One hour with you

Gay Paris appartments recreated in Hollywood, Chevalier is being seduced by Macdonld's best friend, Mitsy, against his will and better sense, while Mitsy's husband is quite happy as he is looking to divorce her. Charming comedy from Lubitsch.

Les Temoins

Big drama from Techine about AIDS in the mid-80s. It's quite a sad story obviously, the choice of actors may not have been the best. Beart looks awful with her fake lips and tits.

The road to Corinth

it looked promising on paper, but thats an odd Chabrol, a mix of spy film in Greece and a spoof comedy. Jean Seberg is still lovely but its pretty uneventful.

Pierrot le fou

The first part is absolutely brilliant and amazing, including the scene at the party at the Expresso's with Sam Fuller. It is really the end of a first cycle for Godard, summing up all his previous films and the end of his marriage with Karina and the beginning of a new cycle, more colorful but also more radical (already hints of weekend).

Monte Carlo

Disappointing Lubitch with a countess running away from her daft fiance on her wedding day, but without money, hitting Monte Carlo and is hit by another count, later pretending to be a hairdresser called Rudolph to seduce her. The lead actor is quite annoying.

Mouchette

Pretty grim film, but masterfully directed by Bresson, pure cinema.

La Pointe Courte

Varda is not a looker, but one hell of a smart lady. This was her first film, with an extremely low budget, in the south of France, with two parallel stories. A couple is having problems, and a bunch of fishermen struggle to get by. Made in 1954, it is new wave a few years ahead, and ahead of modern cinema. The dubbing is annoying, and fake, with with the locals badly dubbed by some Parisians. But the whole thing is interesting formally.

This sporting life

Lindsay Anderson's first feature film in the grim north of England, with a similar style to his Free Cinema documentaries. Richard Harris is great as the working class rugby player who has problems expressing and controlling his emotion, in particular with his very depressed landlady, ends up in drama, of course.

Bay of blood

Very early 70's colour scheme and clothes, great score, crap ending. Notorious as probably the first slasher film, as usual with Bava great visuals but the story is quite weak.

Drunken Angel

Mifune is a yakuza with TB, that is helped by a drunken doctor, Shimura, who as usual does play over the top. Drags on a bit at the beginning, but develops better, until the end fight and death of Mifune.

Electroma

Wanted to like it and some scenes were great, but it ended up being quite boring and I fell asleep.

Les Enfants Terrible

Cocteau and Melville teamed up to ceate the screen adaption. Great style and story, but the acting is a tad annoying annoying.

Berlin Alexanderplatz: Epilogue

The epilogue is indeed radical, and very different from the rest, but at the same time building on all we have learned in the previous 13 hours of despair and suffering. some of the scenes are horrible, and others surreal, with an great deal of references to religion, with some mad sets, and an interesting mix of music, including Kraftwerk.
Overall the whole saga was a fairly unpleasant affair,and not my favorite Fassbinder, but I feel it will have a lasting effect.

Berlin Alexanderplatz: part 13: The outside and the inside and the secret of fear of the secret

Last episode, another slow one, where Franz discovers that Meize is dead.