The Claude Chabrol Blogathon
Over the next ten days I’ll be posting thoughts, images, ramblings and reviews of his work, beginning with a bibliography of the online material that’s presently available. (Quite unexpectedly, Catherine Grant announced this blogathon on her indispensable Film Studies for Free, prompting me to believe she may have compiled a similar list. If this is the case, Catherine, please accept my humble apologies.) I will also attempt to provide a daily roundup of links to contributing blogs. To do so, I’ll need your help: please leave link(s) in the comments or send them by email. I’ll make every effort to post these links as soon as possible
~ Ten Days’ Wonder ~
Day One:
Flickhead: Reading Chabrol Online
Peter Nellhaus: Coffee Break
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky: Back to Le Beau Serge
Day Two:
Flickhead: Class Status and Delusional Thinking
Jeff Duncanson: Que la bête meure
Peter Nellhaus: La Route de Corinthe
Vincent at Inisfree: Voyages avec Chabrol
Day Three:
Flickhead: Nada
Griffe: La Cérémonie de Chabrol
Ed Howard: Les Biches
Greg at Cinema Styles: Dreams… or Nightmares?
Day Four:
Flickhead: Joyeux Anniversaire Monsieur Chabrol!
Edisdead: Le Boucher de Chabrol
Ed Howard: Que la bête meure
Jeremy Nyhuis: L’enfer
Marilyn Ferdinand: Que la bête meure
Dr Orlof: Merci pour le chocolat
Day Five:
Richard T. Jameson: Claude Chabrol – The Classicist
Gareth: Claude Chabrol and Inspector Lavardin
Ed Howard: Le Boucher
Greg at Cinema Styles: Watch the Great Illusion Drown
Day Six:
Flickhead: Rien ne va plus
Temple of Schlock: Une Partie de plaisir
Ed Howard: Juste avant le nuit
Richard T. Jameson: La Femme infidèle
Edisdead: Juste avant la nuit
Day Seven:
Flickhead: Coffee break
Ed Howard: Les Noces rouges
C. Jerry Kutner: La Décade prodigieuse
Jean-Luc at Ciné-club: Le cri du Hibou
Day Eight:
Flickhead: Gallery
C. Jerry Kutner: Conversation with Chabrol
Ed Howard: Nada
Day Nine:
Flickhead: Fun facts!
Jeremy Nyhuis: La Cheval d'orgueil
Ed Howard: Une Partie de plaisir
Jeremy Richey: Les Biches
Bill R: La Fleur du mal
Day Ten:
Flickhead: Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Chris Poggiali: Claude Chabrol Clippings
Ed Howard: Cop au vin
Catherine Grant: Unsentimental Education: On Claude Chabrol’s Les Bonnes femmes
Better Late Than Never:
Sean Axmaker: Claude Chabrol on DVD
Rick Olson: La Fleur du mal
Day Two:
Day Three:
Day Four:
Day Five:
Day Six:
Day Seven:
Day Eight:
Day Nine:
Day Ten:
Better Late Than Never:
*—Thanks to Peter Nellhaus for his title and format suggestions!
posted by Ray Young at
2:30 PM
69 Comments:
Sexy! I hope to contribute to this, most likely on topic of Dr Popaul.
Excellent! That's one CC film I've yet to catch up with!
Awesome, I'm looking forward to it. I have a lot of Chabrol to catch up on, so I'll take the opportunity to watch and write about a lot of his films that week. Great idea!
Thanks, Ed! If I recall, there are a few excellent reviews of Chabrol films already on your blog. I'll be sure to link to them in my blogathon introduction.
How about having the blogathon from June 20 through the 30th so you can have a ten day wonder? Oh well, I won't bitch about it. Nada.
Thanks, Ray, I have written about a few Chabrol films already: Innocents With Dirty Hands, La Rupture, and his latest, A Girl Cut in Two. I've seen a few others before I started the blog, too, but for the most part Chabrol was already on my list of directors I need to explore in more depth this year. This is a great excuse to do exactly that.
Peter, the 10 days wonder is an absolutely superb concept... I'll probably do it... giving you full credit for the idea, of course...
Cool...In my resolution post I listed Chabrol as one of the filmmakers I needed to get acquainted with this year. I've only seen a single one of his films: "A Double Tour". Quite liked it but felt it fizzled at the end.
I have "The Unfaithful Wife" in my pile from zip.ca, so I'm hoping to get to it this week.
A friend wrote a good review of La Rupture (http://braineater.com/rupture.html), I'll see if he wants to write up another film. I've never seen a Chabrol film, it's time to rectify that.
Bob & Jessica: I hope you two will be able to join the 'thon.
Jessica, your friend's review is more like a thesis -- I'll have to set some time aside to read that!
I. am. so. there.
And the next time I do a link round-up misc. whatever post I will tout this, and tout it hard.
By my count I have seen about a dozen Chabrol films now. Which leaves what, 60 to go between now and June?
Glad to hear it, Siren!
Oh, boy! I haven't seen nearly enough Chabrol either. This is a perfect reason to remedy that. And thanks for the bounteous advance notice. As Campaspe suggested, it's doable-- works out to about four new Chabrol a week!
Four a week, Dennis?!?!?! Yikes!
I figured the four-month heads up would allow slow pokes like myself ample time to get their thoughts together.
I was thinking about looking at the Inspecteur Lavardin films, including the telefilms; I enjoyed the two cinema entries in the series, and this would be a good nudge to catch up with the others!
Gareth, thanks for joining in! I've seen the two Lavardin films, but not the telefilms. Are they available on DVD?
They were available on DVD for a while; a friend of mine has them, so that's what prompted the idea. I think the non-Chabrol episodes are still easily available, oddly enough.
I so want to get involved in this one. I have sadly only seen Le Beau Serge, the Swindle, the Bridesmaid and a Girl Cut in Two- a rather odd assortment, I know. This is the perfect excuse to work on filling some of those gaps.
Welcome aboard, Brian! There's plenty of time to catch up on some more of his films!
Definitely a film maker I need to get into a little more, so I'll take this opportunity. Only seen A double tour and les biches, so it'll be a treat to go a little beyond that. Great idea.
Thanks Joshua! I look forward to reading anything you have to say about Chabrol.
I'm ready with both a special coffee break on the 21st and Road to Corinth on the 22nd.
I'm looking forward to your comments on Road to Corinth!
Count me a fan and count me in. I've reviewed La Ceremonie on my site and The Comedy of Power on beachwoodreporter.com.
Marilyn, any contribution of yours would be most welcome!
It will be a pleasure. I just received "Les biches" and "Juste avant la nuit", i hope i'll be ready for celebrating this great director.
Vincent, your eagerly anticipated participation will make this an international blogathon!
I'd like to participate in this one. Can you put me down for "This Man Must Die"?
Hi Jeff, during the blogathon let me know when your review of This Man Must Die is online, and I'll add it to my links/index that week!
I'e decided to do Madame Bovary.
I've always considered that one of Chabrol's "tricky" films, for reasons I'd rather not get into here. I'm eager to read your thoughts on it, Marilyn!
As David Husdon's pointed out, I guess I've inadvertently contributed to this over at Tisch Film Review. Anyway, there needs to be more writing on Chabrol, so I'll probably end up contributing some other way as well, maybe on another film. Excited to read whatever filmbo has on Dr. Popaul, though.
I hope to find time to contribute. Chabrol has been a personal touchstone for me for years; I'm fascinated in the way he has revived his career and his creative mojo (not always in concert, but usually) multiple times over his career. If anything comes together, I'll let you know.
As Vincent, i'll try to join the chabrol's 'thon. I have to watch since a long time "Merci pour le chocolat" : I'll try this week.
And i just a little spoke about Chabrol by writing on the collective film "Paris vu par..."
Congrats for the idea and sorry for my bad english :)
My stuff is up at filmscreed.
My post will go up on Wednesday. I'll drop back by with the link then.
l'enfant avec claude claude n'est pas matthieu mais jean-yves son fils ainé
Allright, Ray, i put something in line for the frenchs.
Vincent - Inisfree
Here's my first contribution to the blog-a-thon, about Les biches.
I'll be returning throughout the week with more. Looking forward to reading much more from everyone else as well.
hello again there is a new contribution from my frienr Griffe : http://notremusique.blogspot.com/
My first teaser contribution is up. The full post tomorrow but I just wanted to put up the screengrab teaser first.
And Sexy the spammer hit me this morning too.
Hello.
I added a french contribution a few minutes ago, about "Le Boucher", here :
http://nightswimming.hautetfort.com/archive/2009/06/23/le-boucher.html
Hope I'm gonna find some time to write about "Juste avant la nuit" before the end of this Blogathon.
Here's my second post for the blog-a-thon, about Que la bete meure.
Looks lovely! I'm disppointed, though, not to find mention of "Folies Bourgeoises"/"Twist." I mean ... I realize how bad the film's rep is, but anything that includes Ann Margaret performing Jean Racine -- as my memory tells me occurs in this one -- is worth a word or two.
Mine is posted: http://ferdyonfilms.com/2009/06/this-man-must-die-que-la-bete.php
A new french contribution about "Merci pour le chocolat". It's here :
http://drorlof.over-blog.com/article-33060385.html
My post is up at:
http://garethsmovies.blogspot.com/2009/06/claude-chabrol-and-inspector-lavardin.html
I'm hoping to do something shorter later in the week on Une Affaire de femmes unless someone else is plugging away.
Here's my newest post for the blogathon, this time about Le Boucher.
Here's the first contribution from Parallax View: Richard T. Jameson offers a brief survey of Chabrol's career.
http://parallax-view.org/2009/06/24/claude-chabrol-the-classicist/
My review of The Bridesmaid is up at Cinema Styles.
Hey Flickhead,
Just wanted you to know how much I'm enjoying this blogathon.
To date, the only Charbrol film I've seen is "A Girl Cut in Two." I wasn't sure which of his films to see next, but the blogathon entries are giving me lots of good ideas.
Pat, you might want to try La Cérémonie.
Hello.
Here's my second french contribution (and probably the last) to this fantastic Blogathon :
http://nightswimming.hautetfort.com/archive/2009/06/25/juste-avant-la-nuit.html
Ok, then, La Ceremonie is going into the Netflix queue.
Actually, now that I've scrolled though your sidebar, I realize I have seen one other Charbrol film - "Madame Bovary." Never realized that was Charbrol's work. I'll interested to see the review of that.
Another Chabrol writeup: Juste avant le nuit
This blogathon has been a roaring success. I had no idea there was so much love for Chabrol out there.
Here's my contribution:
http://blog.brightlightsfilm.com/2009/06/la-decade-prodigieuse-ten-days-wonder.html
Another contribution: Les noces rouges
I'm really enjoying participating in this, and reading everyone's else's pieces too. Great job on this blog-a-thon, Flickhead.
hello
a week-end contribution for Le cri du Hibou:
http://www.cineclubdecaen.com/realisat/chabrol/criduhibou.htm
More Chabrol-
http://blog.brightlightsfilm.com/2009/06/conversation-with-chabrol.html
Another Chabrol post, this time about his darkly comic Nada
And another: Pleasure Party
Wonderful stuff...I was hoping to write a post on Docteur Popal but couldn't get it together. I have paid tribute to Les Biches in stills though and have linked to here...
http://mooninthegutter.blogspot.com/2009/06/images-from-my-all-time-favorite-films_29.html
Thanks for putting on such a wonderful tribute. Wish I could have gotten something of quality together for it.
My post on The Flower of Evil:
http://wwwbillblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/web.html
My post on Cop au vin
Hi there, Flickhead. I've really been enjoying the blogathon, so thanks so much for hosting it, and for your own great contributions to it. I've just posted a video essay about Les Bonnes femmes at Film Studies For Free. Thanks for the inspiration for making it, and for the occasion, too, of course.
This has been a really fascinating blogathon, and thanks for ramrodding it. Even cable TV has cooperated - "The Flower of Evil" was on this weekend with Suzanne Flon's carefully tidying Aunt Line - a long way from the "The Train", but she still delights, and Chabrol still does, as well, an amazing feat.
Thank you for this. As a Chabrol fan I found this a real treat.
Thank you all! I've enjoyed this blogathon as much as everyone. Being the slow reader I am (sorry, I won't give into internet speed reading and its inevitable side effect, stunted comprehension), I still have several posts to get to, and I'm looking forward to each of them.
Again, many thanks to all who've joined in. If there are any late contributors, let me know and I'll add you to the links!
My late contribution, or perhaps a postscript: CLaude Chabrol on DVD.
http://parallax-view.org/2009/07/03/claude-chabrol-on-dvd/
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