Gaspar Noé Wants To Remake Larry Cohen's Cult Movie 'God Told Me To'
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The last time we heard from Gaspar Noé he was taking us on a demented POV view through the seamy underbelly of Tokyo in "Enter The Void" and crying over "Avatar." And while he's currently contributing to the forthcoming omnibus "7 Days In Havana," been eyeing Bret Easton Ellis' "The Golden Suicides" and talking about a "sentimental, erotic" movie he wants to make, the unpredictable helmer may have something else completely different in store for us.
Talking recently with Film Comment (print edition via IFC) B-movie maven Larry Cohen—best known for directing blaxploitation classics "Hell Up In Harlem" and "Black Caesar" as well as the horror flick "It's Alive"—revealed that he was approached by a French director, whose name he couldn't recall, looking to acquire the remake rights to his bonkers "God Told Me To." Here's the excerpt from the magazine—the dots are pretty easy to put together:
The 70-year-old Cohen mentioned that he had just come from a meeting with an interesting young Frenchman who was seeking the rights to remake 'God Told Me To.' 'What's his name?' inquired the staffer. 'I don't remember, but he gave me some DVDs of his films.' The director rummaged in a bag and produced copies of "Irreversible" and "Enter the Void."
Of course, it still remains to be seen if this will even pan out but the material is directly in Noe's wheelhouse. The story follows an NYPD cop who has to investigate a series of brutal murders committed, seemingly randomly, by people that claim—you guessed it—"God told me to." And that's just the beginning of a story that gets pretty out there, but if you happen to pick up the DVD of the 1976 film keep an eye out and you'll see Andy Kaufman in his first even big screen appearance playing, appropriately, a possessed policeman. Or you can just watch the scene below.
At any rate, murderers taking their instructions from God in a movie directed by Gaspar Noé? Uh, yeah, that would be amazing. So c'mon Larry, let that Frenchman whose name you can't remember take on the movie.
My body is ready
for the strobe lights
Is Ryan Gosling Starring In Gaspar Noé's Bret Easton Ellis-Penned 'The Golden Suicides?'
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Ellis' Twitter feed provided something more of a surprise overnight, with the writer revealing that one of the hottest stars of the moment is in talks to star in a script that he's written. Ellis has, for a few years now, been working on "The Golden Suicides" which tells the story of artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan, who killed themselves in 2007, allegedly after harassment from Scientologists. Gus Van Sant consulted on the project initially, but with no intention of directing; instead, it was revealed that "Irreversible" and "Enter The Void" helmer Gaspar Noé was circling the project, which at one time had Angelina Jolie and James Franco looking at the lead roles.
And it looks like Noé's officially on board, as Ellis has related on Twitter that the director's met with Ryan Gosling about the project. The writer, who was at the Chateau Marmont, tweeted "Ryan came to meet Gaspar Noe who is directing The Golden Suicides". Furthermore, a few days earlier, he also tweeted, of the actor's Oscar chances, "Ryan Gosling is going to have to wait this year out and then win the Oscar for playing Jeremy Blake in "The Golden Suicides," which suggests that this wasn't just a casual chat between Gosling and Noé, but that the actor's seriously considering the film, if not locked in already.
Fuckin A
Yes.
The best films of the decade are already starting to line up. PTA has made his, now Noé, Mallick is taking a couple of shots at it.
Good times ahead.
Watch: Gasper Noe Directed Video For Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' "We No Who U R"It's now coming on four years since Gaspar Noe's last feature effort, the trippy "Enter The Void." But he hasn't been sitting idle. The helmer directed a segment of the omnibus film "7 Days In Havana" that made festival rounds last year, and he also hung around the set of Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives," perhaps to talk with the actor about starring in the Bret Easton Ellis penned "The Golden Suicides," which both were linked to oh so long ago. But until his next feature is sorted out, Noe kicked off 2013 with an interesting excursion.
The director has helmed the new video for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds from their upcoming album Push The Sky Away. If you're expecting a Noe freakout, well, you might be disappointed. "We No Who U R" is mostly a lot of walking around in a dark forest with a giant shadow looming. If we didn't know better, it could be "Blair Witch Project 3." Anyway, sate your curiousity below. The album drops on February 19th.
^I have been of the opinion that Gasper Noe might be a cinematic genius, but that video you posted makes me think he just might not be. It's shit.
it's a unambitious music video that doesn't try to be anything but that. relax.
If all I had seen was "Couch", I would think PTA's a pretty shitty filmmaker.
If all I'd seen was "Crazy Clown Time", I'd think Lynch was the worst filmmaker who's ever lived.
If I'd only seen the Cave video I wouldn't think Noé was as great as he can be, but I don't have beef with the video. I like it, its hauntedness ropes me in, and I think the approach fits Cave, who works with lots of drifting and repetitious textures. Honestly think the video has some of the magic of Cave's music.
Watch this if you need cinnamon flavor
Don't forget this one from Gaspar:
Quote from: KJ on January 06, 2013, 07:57:38 AM
it's a unambitious music video that doesn't try to be anything but that. relax.
It's a chink in the armor. I can't imagine Kubrick putting his name on such crap.
Quote from: polkablues on January 06, 2013, 12:36:49 PM
If all I had seen was "Couch", I would think PTA's a pretty shitty filmmaker.
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Couch was an experimental film made by a director dipping his toes into uncharted waters -- a very particular brand of comedy with a very particular actor.
Quote from: trashculturemutantjunkie on January 06, 2013, 01:10:23 PM
If I'd only seen the Cave video I wouldn't think Noé was as great as he can be, but I don't have beef with the video. I like it, its hauntedness ropes me in, and I think the approach fits Cave, who works with lots of drifting and repetitious textures. Honestly think the video has some of the magic of Cave's music.
Watch this if you need cinnamon flavor
I expected the cops to kick my door in and drag me away for watching this. The video is unsettling and provocative -- definitely Noe'esque.
Technically, I think it's pretty amazing. Hopefully it's a statement on pop culture.
Quote from: Kellen on January 06, 2013, 11:25:39 PM
Don't forget this one from Gaspar:
Now that's more like it.
lol.
have you seen lucile hadzihalilovic's movie?
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it's good. debie shot it. she's married to noé and credited as a writer on enter the void. i feel like its title should ice your pedo paranoia.
Haven't seen it, but I'm intrigued. It's now on my to-watch list.
How do you think I'm "pedo paranoid"?
Quote from: The Ultimate Badass on January 12, 2013, 01:28:49 AM
How do you think I'm "pedo paranoid"?
maybe your avatar?
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i was just playing with "I expected the cops to kick my door in and drag me away for watching this" etc
he directed an animal collective music video
funny to read the ac fans complain in the youtube comments, e.g. "Actually, they hired a really good director. This video's just shit for some reason."
haha what a piece of shit. both song and video. maybe that's what he's trying to say, "this is as interesting as this song gets". haha
between this and the nick cave video he seems to be making an effort to not waste good ideas on videos no one's gonna see or care about. the other one was at least a good song. i don't blame him, he's approaching them purely like a commercial. there's no point in giving too much of yourself to what is essentially an advertisement for a product, nick cave himself has talked this way when discussing his music videos.
the worst thing you can do is end up using your best ideas on a stupid video, like michel gondy did. now look at him. no, gaspar is in survival mode here.
i think they're good ideas. they're just not big ideas. he doesn't spend as much time developing them as feature films, obvs
this seems like another skillful marriage of aesthetics to me. ac totally loses most people, and here noe makes another video that totally loses most people, including ac people. successfully outside the box on all fronts, i think
the video -- it's nonstop popping colors, with big lips eating fruit. what the fuck does a guy gotta do to please you people
Quote from: trashculturemutantjunkie on January 29, 2013, 08:10:27 PM
he doesn't spend as much time developing them as feature films, obvs
there's no correlation between spending a lot of time developing an idea and the quality of that idea. i gave gondry as an example of someone who seems to benefit from NOT having that much time. even if we accept that the one flimsy idea in these 4 minute videos is GOOD, it's still lazy and unoriginal to let it go on that long. i love gaspar noe, he's one of the greatest heroes of our time, but i can't deny these videos are boring and the artists paying for them are getting ripped off.
Quote from: trashculturemutantjunkie on January 29, 2013, 08:10:27 PM
what the fuck does a guy gotta do to please you people
make something i couldn't pull out of my own ass.
i can't figure out how to beat you with words, but i think you're wrong
This seems more like the kind of thing that would get projected behind the band while they play live as opposed to an actual video. I've been seeing a lot of glorified visualizations being passed off as "Music Videos" and I don't really see the problem with it. The MTV culture has waned so having a perfectly compressed short film to accompany the marketing of a single seems less and less necessary, which should open the doors for more creativity and less focus on album sales.
That said, this is super lazy.
Could also have something to do with a general tendency of music video budgets getting lower and lower since about a decade or so. It wouldn't surprise me if Noé is simply unable to think in terms of no-budget creativity. If there's no money for cranes, sexy people, trippy vfx and proper cinematography, what's he got left? Flashing colors and vague sexual allusions.
I love animal collective (not so much this latest album) and I love gaspar noe. but this video is pretty uninspired and boring.
If someone is looking for inspired music video done by Gaspar, check Protege Moi by Placebo: http://vimeo.com/51741671
And yes, there are naked people (enough to ban this video from youtube), flickering lights and whole thing is one long take. Surprised that other music clips look boring? I've hard times imaging anything interesting from Noe that can be played on television in prime time.
Reminds me how great interviews are with him. When asked if he will/can make movie without explicit sex, answers definitely not. Two questions later, what genre he would like to explore? Answer is film for children and of course audience explodes with laughter. Shame I can't find this specific Q&A.
I found this instead, Q&A for Enter the Void taken in Germany, but English is used language (very loose quotation, just to give idea).
- Where you looked for inspiration?
- Amazonian rain forest - taken drugs there to get inspiration.
Other than that it is hard to find good interview with him in English. Most of them are in Spanish and French. What is even more interesting is his accent. As far I know, his parents moved to Huston in Texas, when he was young. Supposedly he even had very strong southern accent, which he changed after moving to Europe.
Sky Ferreira Shares Explicit Cover Art for Night Time, My Time, Shot by Gaspar Noé
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Sky Ferreira has been using her Instagram account to share details of her upcoming debut album Night Time, My Time. She's posted short clips of "I Blame Myself", "Night Time, My Time", "Heavy Metal Heart", and "Omanko". Today she's shared the album art, above, which was shot by filmmaker Gaspar Noé, who has directed such films as Enter the Void and Irréversible and music videos for the likes of Animal Collective and Nick Cave.
According to Ferreira's post, the image above is an "(instasafe crop)" of the cover. Update: Check out the unedited version, below, which may be unsuitable for certain work environments.
This is the first album cover Noé has shot.
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She is 21 according to Wikipedia.
Ed Lachman and Gaspar Noé
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I had the pleasure of seeing these distinguished filmmakers at Ed's chic opening at Marie-Dominique Toussaint's Galerie Cinema in Paris. Ed is exhibiting frame blow-ups from his movies & collages.
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Gaspar agreed that Lars von Trier's upcoming Nymphomaniac seems like it will be more disturbing than sexy. Gaspar says that he will finally shoot his own pornographic film in the spring of 2014, and that unlike von Trier's movie, there will be no prosthetics or body doubles.
Ha, "finally".
(after saying it was his intention, about four years ago, following enter the void)
Quote from: jenkins<3 on January 19, 2014, 05:54:10 PM
(after saying it was his intention, about four years ago, following enter the void)
If you take into account that "Irreversible" used money from project, which was planned originally as erotic film, but Monica and Vincent pulled out in a last minute, you can say that he wanted to make a erotic film whole time. You can watch this interview with Cassel, where he talks about whole deal:
I had to choose someplace.
Gasper Noe, Vincent Gallo, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Carlos Reygadas & More Team For Soccer Pic Omnibus
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Brazil will host the World Cup this summer and football (or soccer for our American readers) fans the world over are marking down the days with as much excitement as fanboys have for the next tentpole or we have for the next Claire Denis film. In an effort to capitalize on this worldwide excitement, Variety reports Mexican director Daniel Gruener is shepherding a new omnibus film centered around the sport and he's bringing along some interesting names.
According to the trade, the 31 directors—spanning four continents—that will direct segments for "Short Plays" include Gasper Noe, enfant terrible Vincent Gallo, "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and "Post Tenebras Lux" filmmaker Carlos Reygadas, as well as Carlos Moreno, Fernando Eimbcke, Sebastian Cordero, Brit Duane Hopkins, Mascha Halberstad, Buthina Cannan Koury, Kiki Sugino,Dorris Dorrie, Yang Ik-june, Bobo Jelcic, Abner Benaim, Rune Denstad Langlo, Juan Carlos Valdivia, Emnet Mulugueta, Menelaos Karamaghilois, Victor Kossakovsky, Felipe Gomez Torres, Alejandro Valle, Pablo Fendrik, Pablo Stoll, Matias Cruz, Faouzi Bensaidi,Luca Lucini, Pedro Amorim and Gruener himself. In all, the lineup features "six winners at Cannes, four Sundance winners, and two at Berlin, Venice and San Sebastian." That's an all-star lineup if we've ever seen one.
All the directors' segments must follow these simple rules: be between three and five minutes long "and largely dialogue free, offer an analogy to some aspect of soccer, but feature ordinary people from the director's own country." While Variety notes that "the producers are considering different options for distribution," the best chance to watch the shorts stateside will likely be on the Spanish-language network Univision, which acquired the U.S. broadcast rights. Currently half the shorts are completed with the entirety of "Short Plays" aiming for late April as the end date.
Wild Bunch will also unveil Gaspard Noé's next film, Love, "a sexual melodrama about a boy and a girl and another girl". It marks his first solo feature-length film since Enter The Void in 2009.
"We'll have a visual and a note of intention at Cannes," said Maraval. "It's a love story, which celebrates sex in a joyous way. Gaspard feels that most films that touch on sex in traditional cinema are dark and dramatic, this will be really joyous... He says it's a film that will give guys 'a hard-on and make girls cry'."
It is co-produced by Wild Bunch with Brazilian outfit RT Features and Oscar-winning Thomas Langmann's Paris-based La Petite Reine.
The English-language production is due to shoot in June, probably in Paris.
please.
Quote from: MacGuffin on May 06, 2014, 09:35:56 AM
Gaspar feels that most films that touch on sex in traditional cinema are dark and dramatic, this will be really joyous...
Right, I'm about to believe that Noe, who is responsible for some of the darkest films in history is about to make fun and happy film? I'm bit skeptic here, but if he can rebrand himself, I'm looking forward to it.
based on the description, innocence (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375233), the love in motion music video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8BOBEZL9sk), and noé's tendency to walk on the wild side, i'd guess the danger here will be the ages of the actors and the possible perception of their ages alone being the "dark and dramatic" touch of the director
Quote from: jenkins<3 on May 06, 2014, 02:20:15 PM
noé's tendency to walk on the wild side
He sold "Enter the Void" to producers as mix of "2001", "Trainspotting" and "Mulholland Drive". Supposedly in script abortion was mentioned just once, yet he made whole scene out of it. Gaspar himself pointed out in multiple interviews that he isn't trust worthy, when it comes to filmmaking. There are multiple meanings that "really joyous" can have in his case.
oh i agree. and it's appropriate that you brought up the abortion in enter the void, a movie that made many questionable decisions, because the people i know who find themselves unable to like enter the void are irreparably repulsed by the abortion scene in particular
i simply think enter the void made him the most interesting and talented filmmaker we have right now, i'm excited about his next movie, and i'm ok with the fact that i don't know what it'll be like or what he'll portray. if i could predict it already, he wouldn't be one of my favorites
side note:
didn't know trainspotting was mentioned in one of his pitches. hearing this, having watched the prodigy smack my bitch up video, and considering spring breakers something like enter the void 2 anyway, i'm now more excited for spring breakers 2 than i expected to be
Quote from: jenkins<3 on May 06, 2014, 03:12:14 PM
oh i agree. and it's appropriate that you brought up the abortion in enter the void, a movie that made many questionable decisions, because the people i know who find themselves unable to like enter the void are irreparably repulsed by the abortion scene in particular
It took me some time after seeing "Irreversible" to pick "Enter the Void". Even longer after that I waited before watching "I Stand Alone" - synopsis of that film mixed with some previous experience was way too intimidating. You could imagine me seeing countdown in "I Stand Alone" for the first time...
Quote from: jenkins<3 on May 06, 2014, 03:12:14 PM
i simply think enter the void made him the most interesting and talented filmmaker we have right now, i'm excited about his next movie, and i'm ok with the fact that i don't know what it'll be like or what he'll portray. if i could predict it already, he wouldn't be one of my favorites
Interesting yes. I don't feel such anxiety (both in positive and negative way) towards any other filmmaker. As for talented I'm not sure. Gaspar seems completely uninterested in literature side of films. There are far more better writers than him. Again he acknowledges this by saying that script if for getting financing and letting actors do improvisation overtly. I'm pointing this out in context of total filmmaking - there are many parts/mediums involved. Beside I'm not a fan of stacking and judging directors by such superfluous means.
After "Enter the Void" I revisited "Irreversible", not by means of watching it again. I'm not sure if I'll be willing ever to see it again in full length, it is just too painful. I can watch scene or two, but that is all. It is easy to disregard "Irreversible" thanks to content. Yet it is that film, where Gaspar started experimenting and most things seen in "Enter the Void" were prototyped there.
They are much more obvious in "Enter the Void", in a way they are excessive even. Stitching more than hundred shots into one seemingless, fake long shot by means of reframing, camera movement and VFX like in Rectum scene - this can be very exciting, if you know where to look for. I agree that thanks to "Enter the Void" I started considering Gaspar much more seriously, but now I consider "Irreversible" as much more important film of his.
the opening of enter the void from the balcony to the apartment down the stairs through the sidestreets to the void's bathroom amazes me. for example. that's some terrific cinematic phenomenology. living cinema stuff.
but either way. any of the three, or anything else. i trust the guy. excited for his next movie
First visuals (low resolution) from "Love": http://pic.twitter.com/IcRbEdk6xu
Forget About Love Nymphomaniac
Quote from: Just Withnail on May 23, 2014, 04:11:45 PM
Forget About Love Nymphomaniac
Sex and Gaspar is nothing new to the point of being uninteresting for me. I'm more looking forward to a cheerful film, which would be a huge change for Noe (which I pointed out in one of the previous posts). In the end there isn't much related to sex that he didn't show already.
Gaspar Noé's Irreversible available on Blu-ray for the 1st time (http://www.accentfilm.com/product.cfm?id=MTAwMDQwNw%3D%3D)Release Date: 18 Jun 2014
Comment: Honestly I'm not sure how it will look. To my knowledge most of the footage was captured on 16mm, further downscaled in digital process on purpose (reframing etc), then blowed up to 35mm.
think i'd heard about this but i hadn't watched it until mel posted a link today:
http://futbol.univision.com/video/471150/2014-06-15/fifa-copa-mundial/short-plays/short-plays-francia-disparo
a soccer ball. but i don't feel like a go pro is attached to a soccer ball. i feel like i'm a soccer ball
not sure when else it would be appropriate to make a short about being a soccer ball, but if you're going to do it that's how
About the idea Noe can't do joyous in his films, sure, but look at the last moments of Irreversible (essentially the beginning of the story) and those feature some great visual language to underscore one of the happier moments a woman can receive (if wanting the news). I don't think there is any huge graduation to strive for changing pace and feature a different tone. I think Noe has done it before to limited intention and if he wants to really do it for full length, I imagine he could. It's already incredible how much he has expanded in filmmaking since I Stand Alone.
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on October 28, 2014, 11:39:51 AM
About the idea Noe can't do joyous in his films, sure, but look at the last moments of Irreversible (essentially the beginning of the story) and those feature some great visual language to underscore one of the happier moments a woman can receive (if wanting the news). I don't think there is any huge graduation to strive for changing pace and feature a different tone. I think Noe has done it before to limited intention and if he wants to really do it for full length, I imagine he could. It's already incredible how much he has expanded in filmmaking since I Stand Alone.
If you detach ending from rest of the film, it is joyous. If you look at what happen next (middle and then beginning of the film), it just adds up to the gut punch. Then I think ending is the only thing that saves the film - there is more to it than the rape or head smashing. It is counterbalance - to comprehend ugliness, you must experience beauty at its highest point (or vice versa). One of the reason why "Irreversible" is so misunderstood.
Yea, but you say it is counter balance like the rape or head smashing was a dominant feature of the film. Ugliness was all around in all facets but that was just one scene. Speaking of which, the film is pretty inventive with the filmmaking throughout and the head smashing/rape scene is more memorable to the degree it goes but considering some films that try to be as provoking as that scene throughout their entire movie, I think it's overrated to fixate on it as much as some of us do. I think the film's major problem is some superficial elements of story relating back to theme.
LOVE.
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And if you want more:
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good god man
He's basically patting Von Trier on the head and calling him "adorable" at this point.
Noe is the real deal. The more I think about Enter the Void, more I have it as the best of last decade. His filmmaking has been hugely influential elsewhere with other filmmakers and he's going out with every project. His Love project sounds fascinating.
Quote from: polkablues on November 04, 2014, 04:57:17 PM
He's basically patting Von Trier on the head and calling him "adorable" at this point.
I don't know, that Nympho director's cut trailer alone was very full on. That said, I wonder how far Noe is willing to push it.
Quoting yourself is in bad taste, but it feels like some parts of previous discussion are still relevant:
Quote from: Mel on May 23, 2014, 05:13:42 AM
First visuals (low resolution) from "Love": http://pic.twitter.com/IcRbEdk6xu
Quote from: Mel on May 23, 2014, 05:26:05 PM
Sex and Gaspar is nothing new to the point of being uninteresting for me. I'm more looking forward to a cheerful film, which would be a huge change for Noe (which I pointed out in one of the previous posts). In the end there isn't much related to sex that he didn't show already.
Nicolas Winding Refn in conversation with Gaspar NoeAt the Danish Film Institute. 2014. The two directors discuss their work methods, current state of the film industry and their future projects. Space Rocket Nation is the production company of the acclaimed director/producer team of Nicolas Winding Refn and Lene Borglum.Other news via Le Temps Détruit Tout (http://www.letempsdetruittout.net/)
QuoteAccording to Le Film Français (https://twitter.com/lefilmfrancais/status/562918718171529216), Gaspar Noé new movie LOVE will be only screened in 3D.
QuoteWild Bunch published a webpage dedicated to Gaspar Noé's LOVE. Not a lot of informations at the moment. Click on the following synopsis for visiting the website:
LOVE is beyond GOOD and EVIL. LOVE is SPERM, FLUIDS and TEARS. LOVE is a SEXUAL MELODRAMA about a BOY, a GIRL and ANOTHER GIRL (http://www.wildbunch.biz/movie/LOVE/)
Some scraps about
Love via Le Temps Detruit Tout (http://www.letempsdetruittout.net/):
QuoteGaspar Noé's LOVE: first official cast & crew list
The Cannes Film Festival 2015 just put online the first credits for Gaspar Noé's LOVE:
Credits
Gaspar NOÉ - Director
Gaspar NOÉ - Script / Dialogue
Samantha BENNE - Set decorator
Gaspar NOÉ - Film Editor
Denis BEDLOW - Film Editor
Ken YASUMOTO - Sound
Actors
Karl GLUSMAN - Murphy
Aomi MUYOCK - Electra
Klara KRISTIN - Omi
LOVE Running time: 135 mn
QuoteGaspar Noé's LOVE very first still + synopsis
NSFW still (http://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/1/44/39/87/20150506/ob_951213_love-still-1.jpg)
January the 1st, early morning. The telephone rings. Murphy wakes up next to his young wife and 2-year-old child. He listens to his voicemail: Electra's mother, sick with worry, wants to know whether he has heard from her daughter. Electra's been missing for a long time. She's afraid something really bad has happened to her. Over the course of a long rainy day, Murphy finds himself alone in his apartment, reminiscing about the greatest love affair of his life, his two years with Electra. A burning passion full of promises, games, excesses and mistakes...
QuoteGaspar Noé's LOVE official poster
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QuoteExplicit new teaser poster for Gaspar Noé's LOVE 3D
Definitely NSFW poster (http://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/1/44/39/87/20150425/ob_611fd3_love6.jpg)
Gaspar Noe needs to hire a screenwriter and make a movie that has depth, all of his movies are disposable. Great camera moves but outside of cinematography nerds his films don't hold an audience.
Gaspar Noé's Next Film Is 'Psyché,' New Details Emerge (https://theplaylist.net/gaspar-noe-psyche-20180223/)
There are few provocateurs in modern cinema quite like Gaspar Noé. The filmmaker stunned audiences with the intense rape drama "Irreversible," tried to give them seizures with "Enter The Void," and pushed himself to the edges of pornography with "Love." Now, the director is setting up his next picture and is staying decidedly #OnBrand.
Details of the project, titled "Psyché" (yep, psyche) have emerged from funding group Tax Shelter Belgium, and fan site Les Temps Detruit Toups. Budgeted at €2.6 million (or about $3.1 million U.S.) the film will take viewers back to the '90s, with another story about drugs, perception, and madness. You know, the usual. Here's the synopsis:
QuoteIn the mid 90's, about twenty urban dancers joined together for a 3-day rehearsal in a closed down boarding school located at the heart of a forest, to share one last dance. They then make one last party around a large sangria bowl.
Quickly, the atmosphere becomes charged and a strange madness will seize them the whole night. If it seems obvious to them that they have been drugged, they neither know by who nor why. And it's soon impossible for them to resist to their neurosises and psychoses, numbed by the hypnotic and the increasing electric rythm of the music... While some feel in paradise, most of them plunge into hell.
The picture is set for an incredibly brief two-week shoot, and if I understand things correctly, the first cut could be ready by June. So, could there be a new Gaspar Noé film on the festival circuit by the end of the year? Possibly. That said, Tax Shelter Belgium does say that filming is supposed to be wrapped this month, but with no announced cast members, it's unclear if it has already gone into production on the sly or has been delayed. Either way, Noé has something brewing, and it's likely to melt your eyeballs again.
Quote from: The PlaylistAnother surprise announcement (re: Cannes) comes from filmmaker Gaspar Noe, who is scheduled to premiere a mid-length film, titled "Lux Aeterna", in a special midnight screening. The film is said to be about witches and stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beatrice Dalle.
'Irreversible – Straight Cut' Trailer: Gaspar Noe's Controversial Film Is Re-Cut Chronologically Into "Another Film"via The PlaylistPerhaps lost in the haze of all the new films debuting at this year's Venice Film Festival is the fact that acclaimed (and controversial) filmmaker Gaspar Noe is unleashing a brand-new film. Well, "brand-new" might be a bit of a misnomer, as what the filmmaker is screening is a new cut of his film "Irreversible," now told in chronological order. However, as Noe explained in his Venice notes about the film, "Irreversible – Straight Cut" isn't just a simple re-edit of the film. It's something much, much more.
Firstly, Noe is quick to assure fans that the version of "Irreversible" that debuted 17 years ago "remains both the director's cut and the real version of the film."
He added, "This new cut is another film."
Originally conceived as a special feature for an upcoming Blu-ray release of the film, Noe found that once he created the cut, it was strong enough to warrant its own release, and thus, the inclusion at this year's Venice Film Festival. And for those that just want to know what the director has changed from the original work, Noe said cuts have been made to the first version to help the "clockwise cut" flow better.
"In this clockwise cut, a few passages without dialogues created lulls in the action and it is for reasons of rhythm alone, not any kind of censorship, that they have been removed, making this version five minutes shorter than the original," he explained.
Ultimately, according to the filmmaker, re-cutting the film in chronological order presents a version that is completely different in tone to the controversial original.
"Putting the scenes in clockwise order makes it easier to identify with the characters and understand the tale unfolding. The same story is no longer a tragedy, this time it is a drama that brings out the psychology of the characters and the mechanisms that lead some of them to a murderous barbarity," said Noe. "While 'Irreversible' has sometimes been wrongly perceived as a 'rape and revenge' B movie, here the deadly outcome is all the more depressing. The film can be more easily seen as a fable on the contagion of barbarity and the command of the reptilian brain over the rational mind."
He continued, "Removing the anti-clockwise structure, a mentally invasive formal concept, brings out the actors' performances that much more forcefully. The gentleness or violence of the situations and the emotional states of the characters become even more apparent"
A formal release of "Irreversible – Straight Cut" has yet to be revealed.
A clip from his 51-minute short film
Lux Æterna and a
new interview (https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/44560/1/gaspar-noe-saint-laurent-self-anthony-vaccarello-charlotte-gainsbourg)Quote from: DazedCould you list three films that you would encourage people to watch while under lockdown?
Gaspar Noé: Among the underrated masterpieces to rediscover: Warning Shadows (1923) by Arthur Robinson, The Ballad of Narayama (1958) by Keisuke Kinoshita and Threads (1984) by Mick Jackson.
;_; Ive been wanting to see Lux Æterna for so fkn long.
How much longer Gaspar :?: :?: :?:
Quote from: wilder on April 25, 2020, 10:26:49 AM
Quote from: DazedCould you list three films that you would encourage people to watch while under lockdown?
Gaspar Noé: Among the underrated masterpieces to rediscover: Warning Shadows (1923) by Arthur Robinson, The Ballad of Narayama (1958) by Keisuke Kinoshita and Threads (1984) by Mick Jackson.
I made a letterboxd list with his favorite films including these. Let me know if I should add something more!
https://letterboxd.com/helsings/list/date-night-with-gaspar-noe/
Great list. Already like him but I like that list too. Hadn't known he mentioned some of those but from what I know, unless it's already there and I have reading problems, missing bigelow's strange days
Quote from: jenkins on April 25, 2020, 04:07:20 PM
Great list. Already like him but I like that list too. Hadn't known he mentioned some of those but from what I know, unless it's already there and I have reading problems, missing bigelow's strange days
I based the list on the VHS tapes in the beginning of Climax (which is from his own collection), the Criterion video and his Sight and Sound poll... Slacker and Lady in the Lake he has mentioned in interviews.
I added Strange Days!
edit: shit I found this now: https://mubi.com/lists/gaspar-noe-s-favorite-films
that feels like cheating lol
Threads is great: https://archive.org/details/threads_201712
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Stumbled over this photo by Araki and it reminded me of something... can for sure see Araki being an influence on him
April 19, 2021
Irreversible (2002) on blu-ray from Indicator (UK), from a 4K restoration supervised by Gaspar Noe. Includes both the theatrical and chronological cuts.
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Alex and Marcus are a couple whose story is told over the course of a fateful day. The odyssey begins with a brutal killing then unspools in reverse to reveal the horrifying events that lead to the gut-wrenching, violent climax of the opening scene.
Cannes Film Festival: Gaspar Noe, Bill Murray. Ari Folman, Titles Added To Lineup
via The Playlist
Gaspar Noé's project is called "Vortex" and stars the famed Italian Giallo filmmaker Dario Argento. It will play out of competition, like Folman's movie, and the film is reportedly about the story of the last days of a pair of old lovers.
Yessssss
Quote from: WorldForgot on April 25, 2020, 11:29:43 AM
;_; Ive been wanting to see Lux Æterna for so fkn long.
How much longer Gaspar :?: :?: :?:
Another year without Gaspar'z witchy silhouette short U_U
So what's this Vortex project? A short?
Gaspar Noé Almost Died, Got Sober, and Made His Most Personal Film
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By Eric Kohn / July 18, 2021
The filmmaker explains how a near-death experience inspired a very different kind of movie.
On the same day that Gaspar Noé premiered his new movie "Vortex" at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, he posted an alarming image on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/CRY0yHjFZ4Q/). Captioned "Brain hemorrhage – Day 11," the photo showed the 57-year-old Argentine director in a hospital gown and attached to a ventilator. Fans and friends flooded the comments section to offer their best wishes. "The universe still needs ur movies," wrote one.
As it turned out, the same filmmaker who excelled at disorienting viewers with the intense psychedelic provocations "Enter the Void" and "Climax" had pulled off another trick: The photo was over a year old. Noé survived the hemorrhage shortly before the pandemic hit, a one-two punch that brought the Paris-based director closer than ever to his own mortality and led him to make his most personal film.
Noé's very name has been associated with subversive filmmaking gambles for nearly 20 years, going back to when "Irreversible" premiered at Cannes in 2002. Yet "Vortex," which Noé shot in early 2021, finds the director working in a gentler, more accessible mode. The movie stars Italian giallo master Dario Argento and "The Mother and the Whore" actress Françoise Lebrun as an aging couple enduring their last days in a cramped apartment, as Lebrun's character slowly loses her mind.
The movie showcases Noé's usual adventurous formalism by unfolding almost entirely in split screen for its two hours and 22 minutes. However, that device is used to process the couple's two complementary experiences as their world gradually becomes unstable, resulting in the most accessible cinematic trickery in Noé's career to date. A few days before the Cannes premiere of "Vortex," he spoke to IndieWire from Paris about how his recent experiences inspired his intimate new project.
It sounds like you had quite the experience prior to making this movie.
One year and a half ago, I had a brain hemorrhage and almost died. I survived it and miraculously I did not have any brain damage. But they advised me to stay at home. Two months after I was out of the hospital, the confinement started all over the place. So I spent like six month quietly watching Mizoguchi movies at home. I was watching one or two Japanese masterpieces every day. It was probably the most peaceful moment of my whole life.
You must have felt lucky.
I could've been erased and suddenly I had a second tour. There are some things you care less about. But there are some things that can seem less valuable. I haven't done a single drug since I had this brain hemorrhage. I stopped smoking also. I stopped putting salt in my food. I don't even miss salt.
Which explains the lack of psychedelia in this movie...
Once you've done it, it's a bit boring to repeat yourself. You can surprise other people, but first of all, you have to surprise yourself.
How quickly did you put the movie together?
I had been thinking of the movie for a while that I wanted to do a movie with older characters. I had that in my head for the last three or four years. When I went to see my father in Argentina for New Year's Eve, I knew I had to go back to make this movie. I wrote 10 pages and hoped to get some state subsidies. Canal Plus pre-bought the script when it was only 10 pages long. In March we found the location. Our incredible production designer, Jean Rabasse, created this room that looks like a house. I shot the movie in April and May. We started working on the editing in mid-May.
To what extent was this a familiar scenario to you?
My father is 88 and in close possession of his mind, probably more than ever. He's painting, writing. He had COVID last year and survived it. However, there are things here linked to my life. My mother lost her mind eight years ago, and then she died of it; so did my grandmother. It's just a magical process that some of the brightest people on the planet are some of the first to lose their minds. I wanted to dedicate the movie at the beginning to all of the people who lose their minds before their lose their hearts.
You have played with split screens in other films before, most recently with "Lux Aeterna." Where did you get the idea to make a whole movie that way?
These are two forms of life that are not shared but they are complementary. Each one is living in their own tunnel, but each one is interlaced with the other one. Life is a bit like that. The only true reality is the addition of all the perceptions of it. Originally, I didn't think I'd do the whole movie with a split screen. I started shooting with two cameras and then with only one single camera. Then I realized "what the fuck, I should've shot with two cameras if I wanted to keep it with the split screen for the whole movie." So we had to reshoot some scenes and the missing parts. I'm very happy we did that.
What was the intended effect?
You may be surprised by the first takes of the split screen, but after a minute, you forget it. Your eyes are moving from the left to the right all the time. People have told me the second time they see the movie, they're rediscovering it.
How did you wind up casting Dario Argento?
I've seen him onstage at the French cinematheque and he can talk for an hour without a single question because he's talking so fast. It's like a one-man show. And everybody's loving it. Thankfully, his daughter Asia helped me to convince him to do the movie. On the set, I told him, "Hey, Dario, I'm going to take care of one of two cameras. I'll take care of the location. What do you want for your character?" He said, "I'd like him to have a mistress." OK, so we had the wardrobe girl play the mistress. Then I told him, "Don't worry if your French is not perfect. You're an Italian living in France. Just express yourself as if you're a film critic living in France."
The whole thing was improvised off a 10-page outline. What sort of challenges did that create?
Every actor just lived in the moment and created their dialogue collectively. Françoise asked if I had lines for her. I said, "I could write them down but let's just invent them on the set. In your case, you have to mumble them. I don't care if we understand the words that come out of your words. I want people to kind of guess what you're saying with your eyes." I think it was a bit frustrating for her at the beginning because she likes talking a lot, she likes words. I said she had to do a kind of instinctive animal acting in which words have partly vanished. She accepted the game and she played it. This is a real performance. She's lively, happy, the total opposite of how you see her in the film. Her mother who is 100 years old is still in a perfect state of mind.
It must have been quite a challenge to put all this footage together.
I never thought the movie would be two hours and 22 minutes long. I thought it'd be 80 or 90 minutes. But I had all this good material on two screens. If you put all that material it's almost four or five hours of movie, but it's on two screens. Whatever was truthful and emotional, I'd keep it. If it wasn't, I'd cut it.
Your movies often deal with sex, drugs, partying, and other salacious activities. How cognizant were you of making a movie that set all that stuff aside?
I'm not going to do an X-rated movie about aging. It's kind of a survival movie. It's about two older persons in danger. I don't know which film genre it would belong to.
Obviously, "Amour" comes to mind.
The movie "Amour" was so successful that everybody — when I say this film is about an old couple and one of them starts to get senile — of course you think of "Amour." But the truth is that there are very few movies about a subject that is universal in almost every single family.
What did you learn from the experience of telling this story?
The problem with this kind of psychosis is that people are ashamed and they keep it as a secret in their family. When they start to understand their parents have Alzheimer's, they think they have to carry this cross and don't want to spread the word. It's very weird. I discovered through doing this movie that many people are caring for their parents every day and never talking about it. It's part of my life, my father's life, my cousin's life, even my mother's life when she had to take care of her mother losing her mind. Of course it's cathartic when you can discuss it with people.
How do you feel about the distribution prospects of this movie? Your last one, "Lux Aeterna," never came out in the U.S.
You shouldn't only do movies to make money. Some people do it to buy swimming pools or drugs. But you can also think of cinema as a tool to communicate in life and share whatever is good and bad about it. The intention of this movie was not commercial. However, it doesn't have any ratings issues. It's for general audiences. But the truth is that the content of the movie is sad, existentialist, quite tough. It's the opposite of a hype movie.
How are you feeling about the next phase of your career?
I was talking a lot about doing a movie about religion two years ago. Now, I'm not really into doing a movie about the Inquisition or the Occult. I'd probably like to do a documentary in Cinemascope. Instead of writing a script, finding the actors, convincing the people to do it, I'd like to do a strong documentary with all the tools that cinema can offer. I want to make an epic movie without a script.
Given what you've been through, do you feel like you're racing against the clock?
I just know I'm going to die and then I'll be erased. The dream within a dream is going to be over.
QuoteI was talking a lot about doing a movie about religion two years ago. Now, I'm not really into doing a movie about the Inquisition or the Occult. I'd probably like to do a documentary in Cinemascope. Instead of writing a script, finding the actors, convincing the people to do it, I'd like to do a strong documentary with all the tools that cinema can offer. I want to make an epic movie without a script.
That is very exciting.
"How do you feel about the distribution prospects of this movie? Your last one, "Lux Aeterna," never came out in the U.S." but no mention of Lux's distro? I'm hoping it'll be a special feature on Vortex's home release especially since they share similarities in split-screen form.
May 30, 2022
Lux Æterna (2019) on blu-ray from Arrow UK. Also forthcoming in the US from an unnamed distributor.
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Two actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling stories about witches - but that's not all. 'Lux Æterna' is also an essay on cinema, the love of film, and on-set hysterics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHGfY5WcFkg
May 30, 2022
Enter the Void (2009) blu-ray from Arrow UK
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The story of a young man, Oscar, who after the brutal death of his parents, makes a promise to his sister never to leave her, no matter what, but is killed at the hands of corrupt police.
QuoteCourtesy of distributor Altered Innocence, Gaspar Noé's scandalous director's cut, entitled "Irréversible: Straight Cut," will open theatrically on February 10th in Los Angeles (Landmark's Nuart Theatre), New York City (IFC Center), A restored version of the original film will play concurrently in select cities, and makes for an interesting double feature.
Nearly 20 years after the original film's release, Noé world "Irréversible: Straight Cut" at the Venice Film Festival in 2019, and this release marks the U.S. theatrical premiere of his radically revised director's cut.
"Until now, "Irreversible" was a deliberate puzzle," Noé said of his innovative new cut. "Presented clockwise, everything is clear and also darker, making it easier to identify with the characters and understand the tale unfolding. The same story is no longer a tragedy; this time, it is a drama that brings out the psychology of the characters and the mechanisms that lead some of them to a murderous barbarity. While "Irreversible" has sometimes been wrongly perceived as a 'rape and revenge' B movie, here the deadly outcome is all the more depressing. "Irreversible: Straight Cut" can be more easily seen as a fable on the contagion of barbarity and the command of the reptilian brain over the rational mind. This new cut is another film. You will see. Time reveals all things."
Trailer (https://vimeo.com/756509485/281f38e5f8?embedded=false&source=video_title&owner=1183537)
Just got back from The Straight Cut at the Aero with Noe and del Toro in attendance.
Certainly a worthwhile watch for anyone interested enuff in this film to stomach the 'bleak'er version. And while it may lack Noe's original 'happy ending' conceit, the thesis feels altogether different enough to merit the exercise. In fact, a title card and some subtitles are different which almost makes me feel like Noe is giving the story more detail in this cut even though it's 7minutes shorter.
During the Q&A portion the moderator asked if Vincent and Monica Bellucci had seen it, Noe said yes and that "Monica especially is proud of it" becaues now the audience can focus on the psychology of her character and care for her with patience before the chaos. And because Noe has excised about 3minutes of whip-pans and spins, it feels more like the characters' edit than Benoit Debie and Noe's.
"This is the only film I know of that goes both ways" - Noe
But this edit does remove shots I like from the original.
May 2023Irreversible (2002) on blu-ray from Altered Innocence
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Acclaimed filmmaker Gaspar Noé's unflinching exploration of human savagery and the uncompromising nature of time, Irreversible was met with a groundswell of acclaim and uproar upon its premiere at the opening night of Cannes in 2002. Stylish, sexually frank, and brutal, the film's conceit of exploring the events of one terrible night on the streets of Paris in reverse chronological order was celebrated and derided in equal measure, helping to further cement Noé's legacy as a cinematic enfant terrible.
Nearly 20 years later, Noé brought Irreversible back, presenting the "Straight Cut" to the Venice Film Festival. This reconfigured vision allowed audiences to see the events of the film unfold in the order in which they occur, providing new context for pivotal scenes of brutality and the subsequent quest for revenge. Now available are both cuts of the film, providing the viewer the opportunity to see Noé's potent account of humanity at its worst from multiple angles, and the unshakable understanding that time, indeed, reveals all things.