The title says it all. If you just saw a movie that could be considered "art house" or "arty" in general, why not introduce it here so more fellow movie buffs are paying attention to it My most recent recommendation: Les Diaboliques (1954) H.G. Clouzot Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNBo-jkPr6c Story: The female school headmaster's husband is pure evil, so she and a female teacher decide to get rid off him - pure suspense & a lotta surprises towards the end - Prepare your nerves to get raped! Personal rating: a clear 10/10 H.G. Clouzot made probably only two good movies (Les Diaboliques and Le Salaire de la Peur aka Wages of Fear), but both of them are SO DAMN GOOD, exciting and thrilling. They show what a huge talent Clouzot really was, sadly he couldn't prove it more often. :?
I always thoughtbart house was just another name for soft porn. Or at least all the so called art films I saw were. Yakumo
A lot of movies from the 60s and 70s are, if they are French, Italian or Japanese that is. In the Realm of Senses (1976), Les Valseuses (1973), Silent Days in Clichy (1969) as well as some Pasolini and Fellini movies come to my mind. Blows away ANY prude sex shit in nowadays blockbuster movies. Megan Fox go home! :dammit:
Der Lauf der Dinge - Fischli and Weiss 1987 the original is 35 minutes long, its where the honda guys stole the idea for there "cog" advert from. La Jetée - Chris Marker 1963 This was the film that 12 monkeys was based on. come in a double dvd with Sans Soleil.
Wow, thanks a lot for mentioning this one. I've never known something like that existed, also didn't know the Cog advert until just know. I just watched it as well as a short making of and I'm blown away... can't wait to get my hands on Der Lauf der Dinge. That reminds me how I and some friends tried to create this sort of chain reactions when we were kids. I bet everyone did... buidling stuff with lego bricks, yarn and figures and trying to achieve an as long as possible domino-effect
Fischli and Weiss did the entire shoot in a couple of takes i think. another good one is Le Sang des bêtes (Blood of the Beasts), but thats if you have the stomach for it (you have been warned! but the horse bit is incredible!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFAUA8_mfXs ive got loads of this stuff, let me know if you want more.
I still have difficulties defining "art house"... publishers like the British Film Institute, Criterion Collection and MOC should be considered "art house only", but they also publish stuff that does not have any "artistic" touch. Last Life in the Universe is a great movie though. Relaxing yet captivating. The girl is lovely, too *_* ^^
hmm i guess i consider art house movies one that are made specifically for a niche audience, not commercially released and tend to be viewed in a gallery rather than a cinema.
Why do they have to not be commercially released? I always thought "art house" generally refers to movies that do not lay the focus on a great story and the entertainment of the viewer, but are rather trying to achieve artificial uniqueness, regardless if it is animation, real actors or a combination of both. Alejandro Jodorowsky comes to my mind, whose "The Holy Mountain" is a very surreal and interesting experience and a lot of scenes look like a Dalì drawing, like "art". Albeit it was commercially distributed and still is appreciated not only by hardcore movie buffs.
You have a point with Alejandro Jodorowsky, his work is mental. still i wouldnt call it "arthouse" as such. of course there is always massive room for debate. Personally i would probably say Holy Mountain and the like are more avant-garde films. Most arty films ive seen dont tend to conform to the rules that other films adhere to, take Matthew Barney, he made The Cremaster Cycle, a collection of 5 films all with there own narrative and aesthetic style, but you need to work a little bit harder to figure out exactly what he's saying...if, in fact anything is being said at all. As i said before, anything in the realm of art will be avidly debated until blue in the face.
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait Blurb from Play.com: "Acclaimed as one of the greatest football films ever made, Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait is a unique real-time study of one of the beautiful game's greatest icons: Zinedine Zidane. During an entire Real Madrid vs. Villareal match before 80,000 fans at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, 17 movie cameras under the direction of acclaimed cinematographer Darius Khondji (Se7en) were set around the playing field focusing solely on Zidane. With a soundtrack featuring the legend's thoughts and observations and a majestic score by Scottish rock band Mogwai, this extraordinary feature - conceived and co-directed by Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon and French artist Philippe Parreno - catches in stunning detail all the drama and excitement of a footballing genius in action." Not entirely sure what I thought of this when I was watching it, I'd say it's definitely a polarising piece insofar as you'll either be totally engrossed throughout all bored silly after 10 minutes of coverage. I'm happy to have it in my DVD rack however, soundtrack is ace too.
I suppose the term arthouse is used differently depending on where you are . In the US the term is now more often associated with films that only get a limited release in theatres (foreign films, documentaries, stuff the premieres at Sundance, ect) rather than simply experimental films.
I believe here in Germany, "art house" ist mostly associated with old films that acclaimed a certain cult status amongst film fanatics. There is for instance a Geman DVD publisher that specialized on similar movies like the Criterion Collection and they call it the "Arthaus Collection"< link. Stuff like Der Lauf der Dinge (nice flick btw, I watched it the other day. But I believe to be really OUTRAGEOUS in conduction, a little less cuts would have been necessary... but it's full of brilliant ideas anyways, therefore a clear 10/10 for an experimental movie from me!) would probably not instantly indentified as "art house". Did anyone of you watch "BEGOTTEN" from 1991 (I believe)? That crude b/w film about the death of god, full of sinister and obscure images and scenes... that movie creeped me out, although half of the time I wasn't sure what exactly it was all about. Wikipedia helped... a bit. ^^
