Les créatures (1966, Agnès Varda)
I think these might be time-lapse shots of the tide going out, but the picture quality is too poor to be sure. This is gonna be a rough one… Opens with a closeup of Catherine Deneuve smiling, a good...
View ArticleAgnès Varda shorts
Plaisir d’amour en Iran (1976) An expanded version of Pauline and Darius’s trip to Iran in L’Une chante, l’autre pas. Pauline and a narrator comment on the sensuality of Persian architecture. I...
View ArticleThe Beaches of Agnès (2008, Agnès Varda)
A chronological romp through Varda’s life and work. Exciting and wonderful and gorgeous and traumatic and mischievous. More inter-intra-self-referential than even 101 Nights of Simon Cinéma, which of...
View ArticleMonth of 121 Shorts: The 50′s to the 70′s
Precautions Against Fanatics (1969, Werner Herzog) “Have you ever seen a dishonest man with a chest like this?” Said to Werner’s cameraman by a one-armed man in a suit: “What are you doing here? Go...
View ArticleLions Love (1969, Agnes Varda)
Not a very popular movie, not easy to find or widely discussed, so I wondered about the title. Is it “Lion’s Love” or “Lions’ Love” or just “Lions Love”. Title card on the movie says: “Lions Love Lions...
View ArticleThe Return of Snow Day Shorts
It snowed in Atlanta so everything shut down for an entire week. As is now traditional, I celebrated by watching a pile of shorts I’d long been planning to see (some as part of the Auteur Completist...
View ArticleLa Pointe Courte (1956, Agnes Varda) plus shorts
“They talk too much to be happy.” Descriptions of this film focus on the blank-faced young married couple in crisis, visiting the fishing town where he grew up, debating whether they should stay...
View ArticleAgnès de ci de là Varda (2011, Agnès Varda)
Varda films her own travels for a year or so, as she visits old friends and new, goes to lots and lots of art exhibits and museums, and attends retrospectives of her work. “Now that I’m old, everyone...
View ArticleAgnes Varda’s Jacques Demy double-feature (and Demy shorts)
Jacquot de Nantes (1991, Agnes Varda) A pretty good movie about a kid growing up in small-town France wishing to make films – but if you’re a Varda/Demy fan who knows the backstory, that she’s filming...
View ArticleVagabond (1985, Agnes Varda)
Hadn’t watched this in a long time. I misremembered it as her neorealist movie – a grim, straightforward portrait of a wandering homeless girl. Apparently I missed or forgot all the really interesting...
View ArticleFar From Vietnam (1967)
Piecemeal protest doc with surprisingly great location footage and interesting scenes, each one a bit too loud and going on for too long. The pieces are mostly unsigned, but I believe Chris Marker put...
View ArticleYoung Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy)
Sept. 2016: Watched this again in the beautiful blu-ray restoration, along with Agnes Varda’s documentary. Of course, I take back the comment below that the music is unmemorable – I find no showtunes...
View ArticleUncle Yanco / Black Panthers (1967/68, Agnes Varda)
Uncle Yanco (1967) “Above all, man is nourished by what’s marvelous.” While in California, Agnes introduces herself to a relative, who is an awesome weirdo (it must run in the family), a painter and...
View ArticleFaces Places (2017, Agnès Varda & JR)
Agnès Varda goes on one of her journeys around France, looking up old friends and making new ones, but this time she’s got JR, a photographer who likes to make gigantic portraits and paste them onto...
View ArticleMur Murs (1981, Agnès Varda)
The original Faces Places, displaying and discussing L.A.’s murals with the artists and residents. No onscreen text – she introduces the artists verbally, and when the camera shows a new piece...
View ArticleShorts watched January 2019
Edith+Eddie (2017, Laura Checkoway) I guess it’s common practice to screw over elders using the legal guardianship system? Imagine being the lawyer responsible for the lonely death of a nice old man in...
View ArticleVarda by Agnès (2019, Agnès Varda)
A final film that works just as well as an introduction. On one hand, it’s mainly a career summary, and I didn’t need one. But I guess I did, because Jane B. looks different than I imagined it, and...
View ArticleMisc Shorts watched March 2021
Cold Meridian (2020, Peter Strickland) Rehearsal footage from a recent dance piece never publicly performed, edited with a shampoo-hair ASMR lady whispering to her online viewers about their previous...
View ArticleDaguerrotypes (1978, Agnes Varda)
In which Varda proves she can find good cinema anywhere, by wandering down the street into all the small shops and turning her neighbors into movie stars. There’s too much of the magician, but his...
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