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    So with the impending release of Into The Void in the U.S. on Tuesday and the semi recent release of Destricted and the recent arrival of I Stand Alone into the Jane household, I figured it's time to talk Noe.

    Honestly, I'm still not sure what I think of him. I Stand Alone is a pretty impressive piece of work even if it is a touch watch. Irreversible just pissed me off, initially, until I thought about it some more and then I was able to calm down and see it in a different light.

    This short on Destricted was wacky and too long and pretty pretentious but interesting in an artsy porno sort of way.

    Haven't seen Into The Void yet, though I am curious enough to want to. I go back and forth on his stuff, which is maybe not a bad thing as if nothing else it's thought provoking. Is he an arthouse guy or the trashiest of the trashmen hiding behind French cineaste pretentions? I'm not really sure, to be honest.
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  • #2
    Mr. Goldberg! Mr. Jane requires an audience with you to shoot the breeze about Mr. Noe! Hop to it! Pronto!

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    • #3
      Finally got I Stand Alone on DVD which I always liked way better than Irreversible, a film that I thought got way too much hype. Anyway... now that I finally bought ISA like five years after I first saw it I'm sure it'll be released on Blu-ray.
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Alison Jane View Post
        ... now that I finally bought ISA like five years after I first saw it I'm sure it'll be released on Blu-ray.
        I'm glad that I'm not the only one that happens to! Anything of consequence I ever buy on a whim, years after release, is usually issued on BD straight after I've bought it on SD.

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        • #5
          Irreversible litearlly angered me when I saw it initially. I felt it was basically I Spit On Your Grave wrapped up in a fancier package and passed off as some sort of arthouse masterpiece. It took some time for it to settle in, and the more I thought about it the more my view on it softened but I've still only seen it the one time. I should probably give it a fair re-evaluation at some point.
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          • #6
            I just never thought the infamous scene was as disturbing as most other people did.

            Mark had a thread for that once...
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            • #7
              I am tooooo scared to watch the film because of that scene!

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              • #8
                I also didn't find the whole sequencing/shaky cam thing as chaos-inducing as it was supposedly intended. I just all around thought it got too much credit.
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                • #9
                  That scene actually made me ill, from dizziness. I saw it in the theater though, I doubt it'd have the same effect on a smaller screen.
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                  • #10
                    I don't know about Noe anymore, he's starting to seem to me like the French version of Darren Aronofsky than some great visionary. His films are great on first watch, but once you get past the shock! Brutal! vomit inducing visual aspect there's really not much chop to them. I guess he's more creative and visually arresting than other contemporary 'visionaries' in the horror/splatter/self-ejaculate-into- your-mouth that passes as 'horror' these days. I like him more than the SAW guys or Rob Zombie or even Alexandra Aja or whatever his name is as a modern 'horror' auteur, even though his films aren't as 'pure' horror monster and psychos whatever as them...

                    At his best he's probably the most 'happening', maybe 'important' horror/hardcore type director going around, maybe he's the greatest contemporary 'grindhouse' auteur, but I dunno, because I just saw Nicholas Winden Refn's 'Pusher' the other night and got a hold of 'Bronson' and he seems kinda interesting.

                    But 'enter the void' didn't seem as cool once the drugs wore off....!

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Goldberg View Post
                      But 'enter the void' didn't seem as cool once the drugs wore off....!
                      I'm going to go into it as completely blind and unhampered as possible once I get my hands on the Blu-ray. The weird thing is, I don't know why I feel the need to own it. Curiosity I guess. I don't know that I even really like Noe's stuff. I can appreciate what he's doing and the confrontationalist style he works with, but... I dunno.

                      Pusher is fucking brilliant though, isn't it? Still need to catch up with Bronson.
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                      • #12
                        I still haven't seen I STAND ALONE yet. I'd been holding out for an improved release, but I don't think I can wait much longer.

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                        • #13
                          It needs one, but I don't think it'll happen any time soon.
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                          • #14
                            Saw I Stand Alone in a theater; always fun to watch people leave a theater at a movie. That's something I've never done. Weird.

                            I can't figure if Refn is trying way too hard to be Kubrick or if he just gets it. That said, I really liked both Bronson and Valhalla Rising. I haven't seen the Pusher trilogy yet but have heard enough good things to anticipate 'em.
                            It's not going to suck itself...

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                            • #15
                              Apparantly Noe was in attendence at the IFC Center last night for a screening of Enter The Void. I wasn't paying attention though and didn't know this until today.
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