La Luxure (1962, Jacques Demy)
Demy’s segment on lechery from The Seven Capital Sins anthology. Nice long takes, light musical feel, made right after Lola. Unshaven Jean-Louis Trintignant (My Night at Maud’s) tells his relentless ladies-man buddy Laurent Terzieff (La Prisonnière) about his early misunderstandings of the word lechery, feat. flashbacks and hell-sequences. Jean Desailly (The Soft Skin) and Micheline Presle (The Nun, A Lady Without Camelias) play flashback-Trintingnant’s parents. Quite a bit of rhyming and wordplay that’s probably not coming through in the subtitles.
Terzieff:
Puppy Love (2003, Michael Colton)
Watched some clips from the Illegal Art comp, similar to the shorts that Craig Baldwin showed in Atlanta. In this one, a dog is in love with a pikachu.
Black Thunder (2001, Brian Spinks, Bill Wasik & Eugene Mirman)
Short series of campaign ads for animals running for office.
I’m voting for the bear.
Incident by a Bank (2009, Ruben Ostlund)
Single take recreation of a comically failed bank robbery.
O Velho do Restelo (2014, Manoel de Oliveira)
Actors playing Don Quixote, author Camilo Castelo Branco and two others discuss Portuguese culture, with flashbacks to Oliveira films such as Doomed Love and Non.
Stardust (2013, Mischa Rozema)
Some beautiful celestial effects.
Haiku (2009, Frederick Wiseman)
Lion / Waiting / Legs
Haiku (2009, Naomi Kawase)
Cicada / Sunrise / Flower
Haiku (2009, Alain Cavalier)
Train / Poster of bearded man / Bearded Man
Nicely done, in one take.
Idem Paris (2013, David Lynch)
While art prints of a Lynch painting are being pressed, Lynch stalks the press, enamored with the clanking gears and spinning wheels.
