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:ContemptNotre MusiqueIn Praise of Love
w/e:BreathlessAlphavilleWeekend
― wolves lacan, Friday, 10 August 2012 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― big-mammed punisher (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 10 August 2012 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 August 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ i love this film
― judith, Saturday, 11 August 2012 10:04 (eleven years ago) link
just rewatched JLG /JLG, among his very best from '75-00
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 August 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Saturday, 11 August 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
what's d-v era?
― jed_, Saturday, 11 August 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
dziga vertov group
― judith, Saturday, 11 August 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
^^AKA his films from '68-'73.
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 11 August 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
cheers
― jed_, Saturday, 11 August 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
I like tout va bien a lot, that's d-v era, no?
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Sunday, 12 August 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
In the middle of watching Histoire(s) du Cinema.... I pity any neophyte who sees this in the S&S 50 and leaps in.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 August 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
Tout va Bien is considered to be d-v, iirc
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
^^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.
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
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"
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Monday, 13 August 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
The comment above about FS being half tripe is otm. as a piece I probably "enjoyed" Notre musique a little more.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 August 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
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
― the late great, Monday, 13 August 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
that "not" should not be there
― the late great, Monday, 13 August 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
'pierrot le fou' is the greatest
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Monday, 13 August 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
contempt is the one i love
― buzza, Monday, 13 August 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't seen contempt in forever
would like to see a bertolucci vs godard t/s
― the late great, Monday, 13 August 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
well actually maybe more just "the conformist" vs "pierrot le fou"
― the late great, Monday, 13 August 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
Belmondo sooooo hot in PLF.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 August 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
they're the all-time hot couple imo
― the late great, Monday, 13 August 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
also in 'une femme est une femme' <3
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Monday, 13 August 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
While we're crushing: Juliet Berto, Maoist of my dreams
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1fi4cxXd51qa91cwo1_400.jpg
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 August 2012 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
Also want to note the PLF scissors bit homage in Moonrise Kingdom.
― Jeremy Spencer Slid in Class Today (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 August 2012 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Friday, 17 August 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
Coming out in Blu-Ray via Criterion, and I'm stoked for it. Only seen it once, and that was a decade ago.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 17 August 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
Juliet Berto, gorgeous as always, even in blood-spattered revolutionary garb.
― clemenza, Friday, 17 August 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
Could've done without the pig's slaughter in Weekend while still agreeing it is a special document of the time.
― Loo Reading (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 17 August 2012 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
I had no idea Juliet Berto died in 1990 at the age of 40. Bummer.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 17 August 2012 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
Some Cahiers lists from Godard:
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/godard.html
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
I bought Histoire, looking forward to watching it
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
all D-V projects: http://ubu.com/film/dziga_vertov.html
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Saturday, 25 August 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
nice one thx
― the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
i forget how deeeeeep ubuweb goes
while we're crushing
http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs3/1450604_o.gif
― the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
most beautiful woman of all time probably
― the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
anna karina vs catherine deneuve
― wolves lacan, Sunday, 26 August 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
Anna Karina = classic babe for ILM dudes
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 August 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
seeing that scene for the first time was like a deep & expansive cinematic ~moment~ for me
― very sexual album (schlump), Sunday, 26 August 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
I'd give a slight edge to Monica Vitti over either. I got through the first two parts of Histoires, quite absorbed by it, and the disc started acting up--I'll have to return it unfinished. Never got to the really sentimental parts that were my favourite the first time I saw it.
― clemenza, Sunday, 26 August 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
I'd do an arty film babe poll if it wasn't such a bad idea.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 26 August 2012 12:16 (eleven years ago) link
which film is that gif from again?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 27 August 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
^^Le petit soldat
― Hut Stricklin at Lake Speed (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 August 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.”
- Werner Herzog
“… his gifts as a director are enormous. I just can’t take him very seriously as a thinker — and that’s where we seem to differ, because he does. His message is what he cares about these days, and, like most movie messages, it could be written on the head of a pin. But what’s so admirable about him is his marvelous contempt for the machinery of movies and even movies themselves — a kind of anarchistic, nihilistic contempt for the medium — which, when he’s at his best and most vigorous, is very exciting.”
- Orson Welles
“I’ve never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He’s made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (1966), was shot here in Sweden. It was mind-numbingly boring.”
-Ingmar Bergman
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Monday, 27 August 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
You could basically make a poll of the swipes Bergman took at other directors.
― Eric H., Monday, 27 August 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link