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Christopher Hobbs recommended Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr.Hulot's Holiday) (1953) in Movies (curated)

 
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr.Hulot's Holiday) (1953)
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr.Hulot's Holiday) (1953)
1953 |
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"This is art concealing art. On the face of it, the film is a gentle satire of French bourgeois life on holiday. There is no story, just Hulot (Jacques Tati himself) drifting innocently through a holiday resort, leaving a trail of confusion behind him. The gags are wonderful, apparently effortless, the situations natural. In reality, the film is the extraordinary creation of a man obsessed with perfection. Each move, each image was planned in detail by Tati until the gags were immaculate; the tennis ball that bounces off the head of the serious little girl curtsying to her elders, the paint pot that floats out to sea, then back on the opposite side of the beached fishing boat; everything apparently natural, everything the product of intense creativity."

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Lev Kalman recommended Blood for Dracula (1974) in Movies (curated)

 
Blood for Dracula (1974)
Blood for Dracula (1974)
1974 | Classics, Comedy, Drama
7.5 (2 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"This is the kind of film I love most—the kind I’m never really comfortable recommending to anyone. I can totally picture someone saying, “It’s awful,” and I’d be like, “Yeah. I see that.” Like, why is it so funny? And why, despite the constant silliness—an effete, vegetarian, sulky Dracula; Joe Dallesandro as a he-man socialist Brooklyn peasant; the jokes about finding young “wirgins”—is the overall effect so mournful and lonely? I think the answer has to do with the way the film never telegraphs its intentions. It modulates between horror, satire, spoof, porn, and tragedy, but imperceptibly. To catch the changes, you have to be in the flow of the movie, enthralled by it—and then everything works."

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