Jean-Luc Godard: S and D

http://www.wildbunch.biz/films/goodbye_to_language_3d

the title sounds like something a daily show correspondent would have to make up if godard somehow did something newsworthy

film socialisme was half p good half waste

so no subtitles at all maybe

slow down JLG -- not seen Film Socialisme yet!

ha i was wondering how wild bunch are a going concern after the commercial disaster of enter the void but it seems they financed that last pos that won all the oscars

Is the main Godard thread? Doesn't seem to be a poll...Having seen Vivre sa vie three times now, and Breathless at least five or six (double-bill tonight), I can say unequivocally I prefer Vivre sa vie. The long bedroom scene in Breathless loses me every time, and while I know the jump-cutting changed film history, I otherwise don't find it all that interesting a film visually. Vivre sa vie is very beautiful: that refrain that plays over and over again, the perfectly timed fade-outs, the shots of Karina silhouetted against the window, the Jeanne d'Arc juxtaposition, etc. It seems to be less famous than a whole bunch of Godard films, but it's one of my two or three favourites of those that I've seen.

Just the other day I read the Spanish magazine with a 140 pages issue dedicated to Film Socialisme on that Dr Morbius link and my jaw is still on the floor. I have tried to watch that movie like three or four times since I dl'ed it with Navajo subtitles but have failed every time due to irritation (why can't I speak French like a cultured person right etc.) but you can tell there is something genuinely new and exciting going on there. Just one example from the mag, there is this French collective that took the job to figure out the main plot and wrote 20+ pages of hints and references, for starters ... I love the crazy footage on the cruise, what about the final section? Those images! This is some next level Autechre, Finnegan's Wake Impossible Art from the Future type stuff.

From Film Quarterly:
"In FS common knowledge has disappeared, everything is in code."

S:
Contempt
Notre Musique
In Praise of Love

w/e:
Breathless
Alphaville
Weekend

i've been watching the d-v era films as i've been able to find them over the last couple years. oof that's some rough going.

Breathless gets more of a write-up as it was the first JLG movie, but Vivre Sa Vie is easily better.

Love Here and Elsewhere which i think makes the d-v era G more than worthwhile.

^^^ i love this film

just rewatched JLG /JLG, among his very best from '75-00

Regretfully skipped 2 or 3 Things and Pierrot le fou last night (I've seen both)--just wasn't up to four in two nights.

what's d-v era?

dziga vertov group

^^AKA his films from '68-'73.

cheers

I like tout va bien a lot, that's d-v era, no?

In the middle of watching Histoire(s) du Cinema.... I pity any neophyte who sees this in the S&S 50 and leaps in.

Tout va Bien is considered to be d-v, iirc

^^It and the follow-up Letter To Jane were the final official D-V projects. One of their unfinished projects (a film about the PLO) was revived and released as Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere) in '76.

netflix instant has 'film socialisme'

this is sort of captivating but i'm only a little ways in - there are only bits of english subtitles on this version? they are accurate as far as the main things that people are saying, i just can't tell if it's totally incomprehensible if you don't have the larger context

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974

"meow! that's what ancient egyptians called their cats"

The comment above about FS being half tripe is otm. as a piece I probably "enjoyed" Notre musique a little more.

yeah i've never really enjoyed "breathless" but "pierrot le fou" is probably in my all-time top 10, not

http://a1.smlycdn.com/data/product2/1/821a744d16f39e6e11019db2b87542238573a7c5_m.jpg

that "not" should not be there

'pierrot le fou' is the greatest

contempt is the one i love

i haven't seen contempt in forever

would like to see a bertolucci vs godard t/s

well actually maybe more just "the conformist" vs "pierrot le fou"

Belmondo sooooo hot in PLF.

they're the all-time hot couple imo

also in 'une femme est une femme' <3

While we're crushing: Juliet Berto, Maoist of my dreams

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1fi4cxXd51qa91cwo1_400.jpg

Also want to note the PLF scissors bit homage in Moonrise Kingdom.

After viewing the 2010 Criterion reissue of My Life to Live I'm prepared to place it in his top three. I haven't seen the thing since a scratchy PBS showing in '95.

Like everything of Godard's I go back to these days, Week End made much more sense to me tonight than when I used to struggle with it. Don't know if I'd ever prefer it to Band of Outsiders of Masculin Feminin, but as great as the earlier films are, I'd still say he's a half-step behind Dylan and the Beatles and pop music in general. (A half-step behind in what? I'd try to explain, but I'll ramble.) Week End, though, is amazingly all over all the bad stuff that's about to happen. The last 20 minutes especially felt like you were inside the Spahn Ranch or something.

Coming out in Blu-Ray via Criterion, and I'm stoked for it. Only seen it once, and that was a decade ago.

Juliet Berto, gorgeous as always, even in blood-spattered revolutionary garb.

Could've done without the pig's slaughter in Weekend while still agreeing it is a special document of the time.

I had no idea Juliet Berto died in 1990 at the age of 40. Bummer.

Some Cahiers lists from Godard:

http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/godard.html

I bought Histoire, looking forward to watching it

I took it up to the counter for rental yesterday, but postponed when they had Three Women; I'm going to get it when I return the Altman.

all D-V projects: http://ubu.com/film/dziga_vertov.html

nice one thx

i forget how deeeeeep ubuweb goes

while we're crushing

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs3/1450604_o.gif

most beautiful woman of all time probably

anna karina vs catherine deneuve

Anna Karina = classic babe for ILM dudes

seeing that scene for the first time was like a deep & expansive cinematic ~moment~ for me