Jean-Luc Godard: S and D

I favor literal translations. How should one translate Bande à part?

How should one understand power in a gaze?

I find it strange to see people (on this very thread in fact) repeatedly refer to Godard movies by their English titles.

I notice in this post that you mentioned 小津 but used English characters for his name

Band apart?

(straying from the topic of this thread ... literal translations that have an affect similar to the expression in the original language with the obviousness of the translation minimized if possible but not at the cost of precision, i.e., accepting loss rather than covering for it ... I think the problem is that French speakers consider it okay to be apart whereas English speakers may not; interesting idiom discovered -- faire bande à part ... )

I feel like in the US it is acceptable to use either French or English titles. Sometimes the literal title doesn't make sense in English, thinking of The Four Hundred Blows, but eventually one learns the original phrase in the source language and...where was I?

To make thinks even more confusing, sometimes Fassbinder would use French expressions or wordplay in translation as titles, such as The Merchant of Four Seasons or Love Is Colder Than Death.

hiroshima damn shawtie ok

heh

Fovever example of completely different sense of translated title is Herzog's The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser/Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle.

I'm quite sure there are better ways to stream this, but a friend sent me a Twitter link yesterday to Histoire(s) du cinéma (takes 30 seconds to cut-and-paste correct French spelling) in eight files:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DYxt-JhZQTsxRhlNY4lFpksRWWXr4HZq?fbclid=IwAR0GpPt1u4dDMq28obXYHiFqdRVKBJbmKgFz_w1DffcZZliGiM56pEMBmZs

They work using VLC player, and I'm able to watch them on my TV with a USB.

Watch it!

Saw it at Toronto's Lightbox when it came out, but I've meaning to go back. I think one of the files might be without subtitles, though.

if you watch la chinoise first think of it as an affectionate but also quite sardonic portrait of the very extremely on-line

― mark s, Wednesday, September 14, 2022 12:41 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

except these people wear such pretty clothes

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, September 14, 2022 12:42 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Yes, their successors are alive and active today, even among us. Especially among us. And that ending (the new school year begins, and the sons and daughters of the bourgeoisie put aside la lutte and return to their studies) continues as we speak.

Am I the only one here who's seen The Lost Record (Svevonius & Cabral, 2021, NOT RECOMMENDED unless you are a masochist)? I'll wager Ian S. is a conscious disciple of JLG.

decided to watch Godard's melancholic Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991) - always intrigued to see glimpses of Berlin from that moment (with a bit of Hegel thrown in) pic.twitter.com/BeGaeOWUdP

— hannah proctor (@hhnnccnnll) September 16, 2022

Aw man, I somehow missed this news. RIP.

I think that my introduction to JLG via the "cool kids smoking cigarettes" era was in fact not the best way to be introduced - I liked it but wasn't passionate about it, and it took me ages to get around to the "all politics all the time" stuff, which blew me away. A big thing of suggesting entry points is what the person you're recommending to actually wants.

yeah the pre-67 films are loved for a reason but they're not the reason i adore Godard's work

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/09/when-godard-came-to-england

"its most basic apparatuses, had to be reconsidered from ground up, ruthlessly, and politically"

does this apply also to essays about film?

no they can stay completely unreconsidered

watched alphaville again and it's a hot mess.

Grabbed Brody's Godard bio from the library this morning.

I wonder if I should mention a certain bias I detected in the Brody book, or let you read it first and see if you feel the same.

Well, I read him regularly lol so I wonder what that might be

watched the image book last night as it's up on mubi: might rewatch after reading up on it as gorgeous as it is visually it's p cryptic

jlg's narration tho lol what a voice, sub-sonic rumble and grumble soup-to-nuts

Not on MUBI US anymore :(

But it is on Criterion:)

You can get The Image Book on Kanopy.

Think you and maybe Alfred are the only ones who still have that.

Are libraries passé?

lots of libraries stopped paying for it (new york's did at least)

I have it and am halfway through the 44 Frederick Wiseman films that are available with my Kanopy subscription

(xpost) True enough--my local stopped, but I was able to sneak back in using my Toronto card (moved away three years ago).

Kanopy depends on a library paying for a subscription and rights. My uni library, well.

Seem to recall that their pricing model made it unsustainable for most libraries.

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

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/our-godard/

The Brody bio was for the most part excellen.

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Well played.

Boys chat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Ac0Xc4lQw

Love that. OG title: “The Baby And The Dinosaur”!

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.

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.

Hm! If anything, he's too forgiving of Godard's uh fascinations. He

And his reporting on the SQP incident was pretty fair imo

Brody very active in defending Godard's reputation on twitter.

Two hour interview.

https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/125365-entretien-entre-serge-daney-et-jean-luc-godard-jean-luc-godard-1988/

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.

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

Picture makes it look like Godard secretly killed cinema and is gloating.