No.2717
This year's final Film Club is a silent adaptation of the classic Hans Christian Anderson children's story. It also serves to bookend our group of features with Renoir films.
> All too often, Renoir has been simplistically characterised as a 'realist', poetic or otherwise. This little gem from his silent period, based on the Hans Christian Andersen story, gives the lie to both that categorisation and to the director's own oft-quoted assertion that he had only made one film over and over again. For here, as the little match girl (Hessling, then his wife) lies dreaming in the snow - her would-be customers and a gendarme become toy soldiers and a jack-in-the-box - Renoir revels both in various optical effects and in the fantastic nature of the dying girl's delirium. The imagery, an extraordinarily potent blend of impressionism and expressionism, creates a genuinely poignant magic, confirming the director's origins in the avant-garde. ~~ Timeouthttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019267/referencehttp://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/1975/04/la-petite-marchande-dallumettes/ No.2718
No.2724
any 'active' torrents out there so I could possibly stream later this week?
No.2725
K.Ass doesn't look promising..
No.2726
No.2733
>>2726Gracias.
I will be streaming this on replay for most of the day (30min film).
>tinyrul.com/filmstream1 No.2738
>>2724It looks to be public domain archives.
No.2742
Can we watch The Dark Knight Rises next week?
No.2743
>>2742I support this idea. We only seem to treat ourselves with patrician films, but we have yet to indulge in meta-analytical plebfaggotry. The Dark Knight Rises might be a sound starting point.
No.2744
> indulge in meta-analytical plebfaggotry
wouldn't that be copying r/truefilm though?
No.2745
>>2743>>2742In my opinion, lets stick with patrician style films
No.2784
Now is the time to watch if you haven't yet, as the story takes place on New Year's Eve :)