But it is on Criterion:)
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 September 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
You can get The Image Book on Kanopy.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 September 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
Think you and maybe Alfred are the only ones who still have that.
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 September 2022 23:10 (one year ago) link
Are libraries passé?
― clemenza, Monday, 19 September 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
lots of libraries stopped paying for it (new york's did at least)
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 19 September 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
I have it and am halfway through the 44 Frederick Wiseman films that are available with my Kanopy subscription
― Dan S, Monday, 19 September 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
(xpost) True enough--my local stopped, but I was able to sneak back in using my Toronto card (moved away three years ago).
― clemenza, Monday, 19 September 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
Kanopy depends on a library paying for a subscription and rights. My uni library, well.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
Seem to recall that their pricing model made it unsustainable for most libraries.
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 September 2022 23:23 (one year ago) link
Some kind of per use surcharge.
They need this guy to play some hardball with them.
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Etb87Rs8yDz29G5ogXEiJm-970-80.jpg.webp
― clemenza, Monday, 19 September 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/our-godard/
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 25 September 2022 10:05 (one year ago) link
The Brody bio was for the most part excellen.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 September 2022 12:07 (one year ago) link
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Well played.
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 September 2022 13:00 (one year ago) link
Boys chat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Ac0Xc4lQw
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 26 September 2022 08:55 (one year ago) link
Love that. OG title: “The Baby And The Dinosaur”!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 26 September 2022 10:18 (one year ago) link
Saw band a part for the first time. So good. Favorite moment is the voice over lead up and strange walk down the street at night.
― calstars, Monday, 26 September 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
I had a strong feeling that the Brody book had a certain personal animus behind it, particularly in his writing about the later years; this could be entirely my projection, but Brody's sting at being rejected by Godard after a day of interviews on his 60s movies really comes across. So I wondered if that explained his emphasis on certain unpleasant topics like the treatment of the young girl in Sauve Qui Peut or the romantic pursuit of the actress in For Ever Mozart. It's still a good book, though.
All of this may have been emphasized for me because the Colin MacCabe biography, which came out earlier, is very reticent about "personal details". It's probably the only biography I can imagine that mentions the subject's suicide attempts in a footnote.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 26 September 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link
Hm! If anything, he's too forgiving of Godard's uh fascinations. He
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 September 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
And his reporting on the SQP incident was pretty fair imo
Brody very active in defending Godard's reputation on twitter.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 09:12 (one year ago) link
Two hour interview.
https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/125365-entretien-entre-serge-daney-et-jean-luc-godard-jean-luc-godard-1988/
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 10:17 (one year ago) link
Watched about 15 mins. Once Godard gets going (and Daney shuts up) you can feel how important the materiality of the medium is for him. You know this, but I've seldom watched him try and articulate it. Like when he talks about the act of projection.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 10:32 (one year ago) link
May read it but that quote is terrible.
Fredric Jameson writes on Jean-Luc Godard. ‘If cinema really is dying, then he died with it; or better still, it died with him.’https://t.co/9pZDvpZHIf— New Left Review (@NewLeftReview) September 28, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
Picture makes it look like Godard secretly killed cinema and is gloating.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
Looks like that meme of the girl looking at the camera while the house burns lol
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/4CobVKP.jpg
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
Is that from his Ulysses project?
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
everything fredric jameson writes is terrible
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
He's a fan of poptimism
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
Was wondering.
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
Scorsese has a piece up on Godard:
https://www.cahiersducinema.com/actualites/martin-scorsese-godard-is-perhaps-dead/#:~:text=When%20I'm%20editing%20a,images%20made%20by%20other%20people.
― clemenza, Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
Nice, thanks!
― We Have Never Been Secondary Modern (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 October 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
Just watched ÉLOGE DE L'AMOUR (2001), only 19 years after Jerry the Nipper referred to it at the start of the thread.
I couldn't make much sense of it. Broadly confirms the sense that while early Godard is dazzling, late Godard is rambling.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 23:31 (one year ago) link
Of the Godard I've seen from the last couple decades (which is not comprehensive), that one is definitely the weakest.
― ex-McKinsey wonk who looks like a human version of a rat (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link
He made five films from 2000. Image Book > Goodbye to Language (will we ever see it in 3D again) >>>> In Praise of Love and Our Music.
Haven't seen Film Socialisme.
Those top two films would comfortably be in a top ten for Godard.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 00:10 (one year ago) link
Lots of shorts and skits and stuff outside those five features tho
― ex-McKinsey wonk who looks like a human version of a rat (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
(I do need to circle back and see Film Socialisme imo)
― ex-McKinsey wonk who looks like a human version of a rat (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
It's dire.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 09:08 (one year ago) link
I have really never engaged with Godard's short film output at all..
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 09:14 (one year ago) link
Richard Brody of The New Yorker declared In Praise of Love the greatest film of the 2000s, stating that it is "one of the most unusual, tremulous, and understated of love stories, as well as the story of love itself; ... Godard’s third first film, thus something of a rebirth of cinema."
Unusually preposterous.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 10:11 (one year ago) link
Yeah, everyone knows that's Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 10:25 (one year ago) link
He made five films from 2000
I've seen them, at least two of them twice, but they're vaguer in memory than the superficially similar 80s and 90s movies and I need to see them again.The first Godard I've rewatched since his death was Made in USA, not especially beloved by most, but I was surprised just how much plot (though heavily obscured) and how many speaking parts the film contains. Was it his last nod at a "genre" film (unless Detective counts)?
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
― the pinefox
That's our Richard!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/19/molly-ringwald-on-filming-shakespeares-king-lear-with-jean-luc-godard
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
Imagine being in a film, not understanding any of it then watching it months later and it never making sense.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
i mean a lot of people in POPULAR MOVIE FRANCHISE DELETED must feel like that
― jus do jus (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
quite a little burgess meredith anecdote in that piece
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
rewatching THE IMAGE BOOK (2018) as a treat to myself and wondering if the many extracts it's quilted from are anywhere definitively listed, ideally in the actual order they appear (including repeats)
(by which i mean listed on the internet: the credits do include a list which i assume is at least a start and i guess i could just grab a pencil and paper and press pause a lot -- but on this day of all days i'm allowed to be lazy and find out if any ilxors know of a solid shortcut)
― mark s, Friday, 7 June 2024 19:06 (yesterday) link