À tout de suite by Benoît Jacquot.

Lili is an impulsive, free-spirited art student living a staid existence with her father in 1970s Paris. When she meets a mysterious young Moroccan man at a nightclub, she falls instantly in love. She soon learns he was involved in a botched bank robbery – where a man was killed – and without hesitation allows him and his accomplice to hide out in her apartment. The next morning, joined by the accomplice’s girl, they flee Paris for a dizzying cross-continent escape through Spain, Morocco and Greece. But as the police draw closer, and tensions within the group rise, her adventure takes a sudden and unexpected turn in this dazzling, multi-layered critical favorite from acclaimed director Benoit Jacquot

Biopic of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.

Valentin is a criminal mastermind, but his exploits don’t prove much in the way of satisfaction. Thus, he sets out on a one-man sailing trip around the world in a last attempt at finding meaning in his life. Meanwhile, in Morocco, a burned-out jazz singer named Jane is trying to forget a fizzled love affair. And so begins the journey of these two lost souls who are destined to cross paths.

Ken Russell’s biopic (one of many he directed in the 70s), set in Bohemian Paris of 1910-15, was about eccentric Vorticist French sculptor Henri Gaudier (Scott Antony) and his relationship with older author Sophie Brzeska (Dorothy Tutin); Helen Mirren was featured as gloriously-nude model/suffragette Gosh Boyle posing and descending or ascending various staircases

Breezy is a teen-aged hippy with a big heart. After taking a a ride with a man who only wants her for sex, Breezy manages to escape. She runs to hide on a secluded property where stands the home of a middle-aged divorced man, Frank Harmon. Frank reluctantly takes Breezy in only to fall unexpectedly in love with her. Directed by Clint Eastwood.

Anita is a girl of only 16 years, and while she has developed early physically, to a mature woman, she is psychologically completly ruthless.

It is entirely possible to make excitation a way of life! This classic Swedish erotic gem stars Essy Persson (Therese and Isabelle) as Siv, a young, sexy nurse who tries to bed every man who crosses her path. Siv uses her raw sexuality to entice, seduce and eventually desert every man who loves or desires her.

Go see it. It is up there with Caravaggio, Da Vinci, and David Friedrich. So sad it’s over, but love can’t last forever.

Romeo Is Bleeding is a 1993 darkly comic police story starring Gary Oldman and Lena Olin, directed by Peter Medak. The film’s title was taken from a song by Tom Waits.

In Mortelle randonnée

America spot. Stunning.

I spent 2 weeks crying, with 1 hour intervals, and almost no sleep, after I had seen my first John Cassavetes film. This one is for him. The one and only artist, the only idol, the only man, that ever was. One love.

One of the 9 muses.

Paz de la Huerta, great NYT article about a legend in the making.

Light Years Away. A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds.

Lipstick (1976). Composer Gordon Stuart brutaly rapes a fashion model, goes to trial, gets freed, comes back and rapes her little sister. She takes revenge. via I Love Hot Dogs

The Last Movie

Educating Rita

A layperson’s guide to Peter Greenaway.

A true artist.

Roy Andersson’s You, The Living.

Jean Painlevé

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glxOojE8Cxw&feature=fvw

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x51p1n_limportant-cest-daimer_shortfilms

Polish director Andrzej ?u?awski’s film, L’important c’est d’aimer. With Klaus Kinski, Romy Schneider, and Jacques Dutronc (!!!).

The brilliant Peter Ustinov: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tC8NFSJhI

Interview about Tokyo.

Peter Bogdanovich’s classic film Targets.

Lou Doillon.

[Miranda Lehman]

Nice poster.