― 007 (thoia), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:54 (7 years ago) Permalink
Only in the least denigratory manner possible. It comes from someone who thinks that Godard these days is, as per Network, crusty but benign.... er, neither does that mean I'm calling you crusty. Never mind.
but i'm trying to have that happen less and less.
Whereas Godard appears to be doing it on purpose more and more, I suppose.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:07 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:32 (7 years ago) Permalink
Should I see La Chinoise?
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 17:54 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 9 January 2006 18:54 (7 years ago) Permalink
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 9 January 2006 18:59 (7 years ago) Permalink
alba -- you mean 'the terminal'.
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:07 (7 years ago) Permalink
HE says... Like mid-'80s Morrissey's claims of celibacy, I bet.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:50 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 09:34 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Four Seasons, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:29 (7 years ago) Permalink
Style over oeuvre!
― Four Seasons, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:33 (7 years ago) Permalink
― steviespitfire (steviespitfire), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 20:52 (7 years ago) Permalink
I see my library just got a copy of Notre Musique. Should I rent it?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
I rent it when it ws available at mine. Its so incredibly disjointed -- there isn't enough of that energy you get between the formal stuff and simplicity of any of the message.
Watched "Elegy for Love", and I love the shots -- you still get the feeling he's out there somewhere with his digital camera (or whatever) and just getting his eye working, whether it ends on a film or not.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
I saw La Chinoise again last night and liked most parts I was awake for.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
I still haven't seen it yet but school library has the full Histoire(s) Du Cinema, which I'm desperate to see. Also one of my professors mentioned a recent study that proved Godard's quotations usually come from either the first or the last few pages of whatever text he is quoting from. So he's just like the rest of us, really.
― admrl, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
haha i am glad people are doing studies of that sort of thing.
tho i think jlg copped to it himself.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
"lols i haven't really read marx i was too busy sexing anna karina losers"
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
Wouldn't you?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
well obv.
though i get the impression from the biogs that he wasn't rly, much...
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Tom D., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
No wonder she always looked so bored
what did he see in Anna Wiazemsky tho?
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
she was a research project into lefty student youth, kindd of, plus she worked with bresson.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
Seven years younger
― Tom D., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
she was friends with cohn-bendit and that lot, and he was kind of fascinated by them. she was possibly an adviser on masculin-feminin, his first film on "that lot". he met a bunch of them at that time, late '65 -- j-p gorin, who he also worked with, too.
i think she's done an autobiography.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
A compilation of Godard bits would be his greatest film ever, and a project he might himself approve. Other than Breathless and Band of Outsiders and maybe Pierrot le Fou, his films have as many dull or awful moments as wondrous ones.
(I did like Notre Musique a lot though).
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
one doesn't have to marry one's research projects!
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 15:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
Week-End Bande A Part Contempt Masculin Feminin A Woman is a Woman
are all wonderful
Alphaville Breathless Eloge d'amour
are okay
the rest are either forgettable or i haven't seen them
― remy bean, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
hooray: band of outsiders, la chinoise, weekend, most of breathless, pierrot le fou
alright i guess: two or three things..., masculin-feminin, the little bit of histoire(s) du cinema i watched once
buhhh: alphaville, the parts of contempt that don't have bardot in them
sauve qui peut has a funny isabelle huppert getting spanked scene if i recall
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
i don't know what i think about any of them any more, but i think it's important to see all of his films up to the early seventies, or maybe a bit later. i don't get much out of the later ones that i've seen.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
I mostly find Contempt a beautiful bore.
Tout va Bien is fun! (esp long supermarket take)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
i think 'alphaville' is one of my favourites, today.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
faves: Alphaville Masculin Feminin Pierrot le Fou
the others i've seen, all lovable in one way or another: Bande A Part Breathless A Woman is a Woman Week-End Contempt Two or Three Things...
― sleep, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
I stick up for alphaville, too
― RJG, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 18:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
that isn't my penis
my faves: week-end tout va bien pierrot le fou contempt alphaville notre musique too
everything else i have seen I have at least liked.
― t0dd swiss, Thursday, 25 October 2007 04:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
le mepris is the only one i really like
― gershy, Thursday, 25 October 2007 04:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
Alphaville: tonight, watching it for the first time in a decade. That strange home-made collage effect of different modes and cultural flotsam: Orwellian dystopia, hard-boiled detectives, computer capitalism. It reminds me of Brecht's consciously half-baked fantasies of America, in its feeling of making it up as it goes along - a sort of experiment in imagination, trying to see what happens if you treat Paris as Alphaville and these scenes as happening in an improbably distant future. How about when Lemmy Caution asks an associate 'Dick Tracy - il est mort?': throw in any bit of cultural fantasy or fiction you want, in some kind of late version of new wave Americana.
Space: walking round and round corridors.
Also space, as in reference to galactic distances.
― the pinefox, Friday, 23 November 2007 21:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
Capitale de la Douleur
― baaderonixx, Friday, 23 November 2007 23:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
I was watching Alphaville tonight, too. Where can I get a Seductress Third Class?
― Joe, Saturday, 24 November 2007 00:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
That's quite a coincidence. I know what you mean, too. The second one, who appears after about an hour, is particularly appealing somehow in her ... I don't know, her divergence from the Godardian / Karina norm - she looks very real.
A pretty crazy picture, in the end. Abstract car chases, film suddenly going negative, that throaty Alpha-60 voice all over the soundtrack along with the usual temporally disruptive spots of music (which run their automatic course then end before anything has finished happening - this more pronounced in Le Mepris than in Alphaville in fact) ... an ending in which the city is suddenly doomed and notre heros is driving away. The missing link, someone else who isn't even Paul Morley must have pointed out, between Nineteen Eighty-Four and Blade Runner.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 24 November 2007 00:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
Alphaville
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 24 November 2007 02:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
How weird, I watched Contempt for the first time last night.
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 24 November 2007 02:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
Sometimes I think ILX's art/culture impulses align like sorority sisters' periods.
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 24 November 2007 03:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
There's a cinema here that's doing a retrospective of all of Godard's films - currently in the 80s period. Screenings are less than 2 euros, so I could potentially go to all of them but I also have to maintain the appearance of having a social life. Which of the following should I see?
Prenom: Carmen Je vous salue, Marie Detective Soigne ta droite King Lear Nouvelle Vague Le rapport Darty Les enfants jouent a la Russie Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro Helas pour moi JLG/JLG - autoportrait de decembre For Ever Mozart Histoires du cinema
― danzig, Saturday, 24 November 2007 19:29 (5 years ago) Permalink