Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974  N/R, 193 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery
Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder, Nathalie Asnar, Marie-Therese Saussure, Philippe Clevenot, Anne Zamire, Jean Douchet, Michael Graham, Adele Taffetas, Monique Clement, Jerome Richard, Jean-Marie Senia
A magician, Celine (Juliet Berto), and a librarian, Julie (Dominique Labourier), are transported to a mansion (is it real or imaginary?) where a strange melodrama keeps repeating itself. Celine claims that she is the nanny to Madlyn (Nathalie Asnar) whose widower father, Olivier (Barbet Schroeder), is being pursued by two women, Sophie (Marie-France Pisier) and Camille (Bulle Ogier). It is beginning to look like Sophie and Camille will stop at nothing to gain Olivier's love, and Celine is trying to shield Madlyn from the tension.
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The Color of Lies 1999  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Antoine de Caunes, Bernard Verley, Bulle Ogier, Pierre Martot, Noel Simsolo, Rodolphe Pauly, Adrienne Pauly, Florent Gibassier, Thomas Chabrol
After his 10-year-old art student is found murdered, Rene Sterne (Jacques Bonnaire) is the primary suspect, and his relationships with his neighbors, his wife, and his students take a turn as they question his guilt or innocence.
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 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Fernando Rey, Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli, Bernard Musson, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau, Milena Vukotic, Maria Gabriella Maione, Claude Pieplu
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is a satirical look at the bourgeoisie following the activities of upper-middle-class friends. Don Raphael (Fernando Rey), Francois Thevenot (Paul Frankeur), Simone (Delphine Seyrig), Florence (Bulle Ogier), Henri Senechal (Jean-Pierre Cassel), and Alice (Stephane Audran) try, again and again, to spend an evening together. But, no matter how many times they try, and fail, to have dinner together, their plans are frustrated by events over which they have no control. The obstacles are bizarre–ranging from a mixed- up date for the dinner, to army maneuvers, to a dead body, to a stage play in which they are characters. Good entertainment.
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The Gang of Four 1988 N/R, 150 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast: Bulle Ogier, Benoit Regent, Laurence Cote, Fejria Deliba, Bernadette Giraud, Ines de Medeiros, Nathalie Richard, Irina Dalle, Irene Jacob
A famous drama teacher (Bulle Ogier) teaches only women, and four women of her class are lesbians who live together. When a mysterious man enters the women's lives and tells of the dangerous affair of an ex-roommate, the difference between reality and acting out a play becomes confused.
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Irma Vep 1996  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler, Nathalie Boutefeu, Alex Descas, Dominique Faysse, Arsinee Khanjian, Bernard Nissile, Olivier Torres, Bulle Ogier, Lou Castel
A former New-Wave director Rene Vidal (Jean-Pierre Leaud) has seen better times, and now he wants to remake the French film "Les Vampire." Actress Maggie Cheung (played by herself) has been signed to star in the film; however, there is much chaos on the set (all but the director are against his choice of Cheung as star). When both director and star are replaced, they set out for revenge.
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La Vallee 1972  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Valley Obscured by the Clouds
The Valley
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Cast: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michael Gothard, Valerie Lagrange, Jerome Beauvarlet, Monique Giraudy
A bored and sophisticated diplomat's wife (Bulle Ogier) seeks rare feathers for export from her home in New Guinea. She joins a group of hippies on an expedition to the "Valley obscured by the clouds," which is not shown on any map, in search of a tribal commune. They find the commune, and our heroine experiences a new lifestyle to her liking. Musical score by Pink Floyd.
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Seaside 2002  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Pebbles
Director: Julie Lopes-Curval
Cast: Bulle Ogier, Helene Fillieres, Jonathan Zaccai, Ludmila Mikael, Liliane Rovere, Patrick Lizana, Jean-Michel Noirey, Jauris Casanova, Audrey Bonnet, Emmanuelle Lepoutre, Fabien Orcier, Jacqueline Carpentier
Everyday events are brought to the fore during one year in the lives of year-round residents of the Bay of Somme, a coastal French tourist town.
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Shattered Image 1998  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Cast: Anne Parillaud, William Baldwin, Graham Greene, Lisanne Falk, Billy Wilmott, O'Neil Peart, Leonie Forbes, Bulle Ogier, Peter Hanlon, Alwyn Scott
Jessie (Anne Parillaud) is honeymooning in Jamaica when she dreams she is a hired assassin in Seattle. Is this nightmare for real, or is she dreaming of the Jamaican honeymoon?
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Somewhere in the City 1998  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ramin Niami
Cast: Sandra Bernhard, Ornella Muti, Robert John Burke, Peter Stormare, Bai Ling, Paul Anthony Stewart, Bulle Ogier, Linda Dano, Bill Sage, Steve Schub
Six New York City Lower East Side apartment dwellers lead lives bordering on both sides of eccentric in this ensemble comedy.
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The Third Generation 1979 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Eddie Constantine, Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Udo Kier, Volker Spengler, Gunther Kaufmann, Hark Bohm, Bulle Ogier, Harry Baer, Vitus Zeplichal, Raul Gimenez, Y Sa Lo, Lilo Pempeit, Claus Holm
German terrorists–Rudolf, Paul, and August (Harry Baer, Raul Gimenez, and Volker Spengler)–masquerade as clowns and kidnap prominent industrialist Peter Lurz (Eddie Constantine) in an effort to attract attention to the evils of capitalism, but their inane mistakes prove to be their undoing.
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Tricheurs 1984 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Tricksters
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Cast: Jacques Dutronc, Bulle Ogier, Leandro Vale, Kurt Raab, Steve Baes, Virgilio Teixeira, Roger Serbib, Ladislaus Perreira, To-Ze Martinho, Claus-Dieter Reents, Karl Wallenstein
Elric (Jacques Dutronc) spends his time losing money at the roulette table. He is totally addicted. When he meets Suzie (Bulle Ogier), who is wearing a shirt with his lucky number 7 on it, he talks her into being his good-luck charm at the tables. Before long, she also becomes addicted. Enter Jorg (Kurt Raab) who has a scheme to cheat at the casinos and who talks Elric into working with him in his scam. The money starts to roll in, and, after Jorg is caught, Elric continues the scheme with Suzie. He hopes to build a chateau and quit gambling. But can he do it?
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Venus Beauty Institute 1999 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Tonie Marshall
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Samuel Le Bihan, Jacques Bonnaffe, Mathilde Seigner, Audrey Tautou, Robert Hossein, Elli Medeiros, Micheline Presle, Emmanuelle Riva
Madame Nadine (Bulle Ogier) and her employees–Angele (Nathalie Baye), Samantha (Mathilde Seigner), and Marie (Audrey Tautou)–at the Parisian Venus Beauty Institute make their customers feel better about themselves. But, at the same time, the beauticians suffer their own psychological ups and downs running the gamut from casual sex to jealousy to suicide. This film received four Cesars (French Oscars) for Best Picture, Screenplay, Director, and Young Actress.
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| 1. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
2. The Color of Lies (1999)
3. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
4. The Gang of Four (1988)
5. Irma Vep (1996)
6. La Vallee (1972)
aka: The Valley Obscured by the Clouds
aka: The Valley
7. Seaside (2002)
aka: Pebbles
8. Shattered Image (1998)
9. Somewhere in the City (1998)
10. The Third Generation (1979)
11. Tricheurs (1984)
aka: Tricksters
12. Venus Beauty Institute (1999)
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