713-719 The Essential Jacques Demy

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Re: 713-719 The Essential Jacques Demy

#151 Post by Red Screamer » Sat Jan 18, 2020 8:11 pm

Listening to some Thelonious Monk comps, I heard a striking similarity between his & Sonny Rollins' wonderful version of "The Way You Look Tonight" and the chorus of Les demoiselles de Rochefort's "Chanson des jumelles"

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Re: 713-719 The Essential Jacques Demy

#152 Post by Fred Holywell » Sun Jul 18, 2021 1:14 pm

Couldn't help but think of Marcello and Demy when I saw Apple's new Pregnant Man emoji.
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Re: 713-719 The Essential Jacques Demy

#153 Post by zedz » Sun Jul 18, 2021 10:33 pm

Fred Holywell wrote:
Sun Jul 18, 2021 1:14 pm
Couldn't help but think of Marcello and Demy when I saw Apple's new Pregnant Man emoji.

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Oh, you poor thing.

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Re: 713-719 The Essential Jacques Demy

#154 Post by diamonds » Sat Oct 22, 2022 7:32 pm

Delightful interview with the wonderfully chipper Grover Dale about his experience working on The Young Girls of Rochefort.

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Re: 713-719 The Essential Jacques Demy

#155 Post by knives » Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:17 am

I recently watched the two non-box set movies Criterion is streaming ( The Pied Piper was brilliant while A Slightly Pregnant Man only has its English title going for it). I was curious though why there’s such a massive gap between them and Demy’s next film, Lady Oscar?

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Re: 713-719 The Essential Jacques Demy

#156 Post by diamonds » Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:43 am

knives wrote:
Fri Mar 24, 2023 11:17 am
I recently watched the two non-box set movies Criterion is streaming ( The Pied Piper was brilliant while A Slightly Pregnant Man only has its English title going for it). I was curious though why there’s such a massive gap between them and Demy’s next film, Lady Oscar?
It sounds like it was a matter of funding. Here's the brief overview provided in the French Film Directors book on Demy:
Darren Waldron wrote:The 1970s were characterised by an inability to find French producers willing to support his projects, which led him to accept commissions from abroad (The Pied Piper and Lady Oscar) and an adaptation for the television (La Naissance du jour).
Recall also that he had planned to begin Une chambre en ville in 1976 with Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu before Deneuve dropped out over creative differences.

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Re: 713-719 The Essential Jacques Demy

#157 Post by knives » Fri Mar 24, 2023 12:50 pm

That’s a bummer and shocking. He seems one of the marketable directors of the period and seems to have mastered making films that look expensive cheaply.

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