My god, Franco. Bad Guy is soooo good. What a strange, perverted love story. I was surprised by how much it moved me. Wonder if that makes me a pervert. I was stunned by the acting and also the director's gorgeous use of compositions. The brutality was hard to take in some scenes. Thinking about starting a thread devoted to Bad Guy since it seems like not many people have heard of this truly awesome film. And I'm also curious about how women generally respond to Bad Guy.

Michael, I am soooo delighted that you like Bad Guy and to realize that one does not have to bear any grudge for women to like the movie. It certainly deserves its own thread, although I was reluctant to initialize one because I had too little to say and too much personal context.

On the other hand, I finished watching Friday Night and was not in the least degree disappointed. There is not much I can add to what has already been said about the film. I just wish there were someone who would watch it together with me.

If the cover really looks like this, then I'll just wait for the Benson's World sale next summer.

From Sendit.com



The DTS track will be lovely.

As for S'en fout la mort and Nénette et Boni , there is still no word on the subtitles yet.

Does anyone know if the Tartan UK Trouble Every Day comes with the Denis/Godard commentary from the French dvd?

Edited for faulty information.

My apology, I always thought that Noel reviewed the Tartan at DVDTimes, but that's the French version!

I think Mr. Banana has the Tartan version, but it may be a while before he opens it.

Thanks for the link, but I also found a review that says it doesn't:

Can anyone who owns the disc confirm this?

If the Tartan doesn't have the commentary (and I thought it did) buy the excellent Australian DVD (also no commentary) which is half the price and a fine transfer.

Looking at it now and it doesn't. Only filmographies and a trailer.

Thanks for checking, Nabob. I've also received another confirmation that the commentary is indeed absent. Too bad.

Didn't like Trouble Every Day too much (except for the excellent soundtrack by The Tindersticks), but I've been meaning to check out some other works by Denis, as she seems to be one of the more interesting directors working in france nowadays. Any suggestions?

See above, but Beau travail is probably the consensus classic that's most readily available, and probably a much easier entry point than Trouble Every Day. Anything, basically.

I have this and can confirm there are no subtitles on either disc.

Nobody has mentioned Chocolat which is available on a decent MGM DVD and is as good an inrtrduction to her work as anything. The transfer is nice but non-anamorphic.

My favorite Denis so far is without doubt J'Ai Pas Sommeil. Again a reasonable transfer but good old Wellspring doesn't do Godard's photography justice.

I probably need to revisit this film (it's been seventeen years already!?), but, although I enjoyed it at the time, it didn't hit me as the revelation of a major talent (in the way that J'ai pas sommeil did and Nenette et Boni - my favourite - did all over again). I think it's definitely the easiest entry point, but my concern is that it misses out on much of the Denis magic (no Agnes! no Nelly!). On the other hand, any film with a soundtrack by Abdullah Ibrahim (the erstwhile Dollar Brand) deserves your attention.

It's not formally complex or seemingly thematically complex like the later movies. But there are significant Claire "touches", particularly between the little girl and Isaach de Bankole, and the frisson of a homosexual encounter between the father and the drunken English visitor, for instance. Certainly the cancerous poison of colonialism is there, albeit in a very direct representation. And of course female sexuality, particularly expressed through Giulia Boschi. (On this I am an expert?)

Of course L'Intrus and Trouble Every Day are her most formally challenging work so far. Trouble is a great movie about sex, death, "outsiderness", the intrusion of disease, a whole melange of things, marred for me only by Gallo's presence.

And again - nobody mentions this -all her movies are suffused with Claire' compassion for people, even foolish people.

The menu for the Tartan L'Intrus is up

For those getting ready to tackle L'Intrus for the first time, I definitely suggest seeing Denis' segment Vers Nancy on Ten Minutes Older: The Cello as a primer (available on an R3 Korean disc) which features Jean-Luc Nancy, author of the novel L'Intrus. It doesn't really decipher Denis' vision, but it does add another dimension to the film's recurring theme of assimilation and rejection and notions of "foreign-ness".

The review for L'Intrus is up on DVDTimes

Hmmm, I was going to get this but I noticed the running time listed by DVD Times is only 92 minutes, whereas it was over 2 hours for the French TV broadcast and theatrical release, which explains why Tartan put in on a one layer dvd. I wonder what is going on here, over half an hour missing is not good.

It also seemed longer to me in the theater, but

Strange, I would swear that the first time I read that review it said in the text that it was a single layer disc. I have checked on the Tartan website and the running time is 121 minutes, so it must be a mistake on the DVD Times review.

I don't know about Tartan but labelling information on OZ discs re dual and single layer is constantly misleading.

One of DVDShrink's many benefits (and there are many) is being able to analzye the disc and immediately ascertain the gigabytes. And it's freeware!

Now out in R1 with one of those cuddly dogs on the cover.

Any word on the transfer? I have the R2 Tartan which looks very nice but I'd like to hear whether it's been properly transferred for R1, or if it's yet another ghosting-laden quickie.

Am I right in thinking the R1 is Fox 'fuckin' Lorber? If so Tartan gets my vote!

What the hell is this? I have never been so creeped out by a DVD cover before.