Jean-Luc Godard: S and D

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.

Looks like that meme of the girl looking at the camera while the house burns lol

https://i.imgur.com/4CobVKP.jpg

Is that from his Ulysses project?

everything fredric jameson writes is terrible

He's a fan of poptimism

Was wondering.

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.

Nice, thanks!

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.

Of the Godard I've seen from the last couple decades (which is not comprehensive), that one is definitely the weakest.

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.

Lots of shorts and skits and stuff outside those five features tho

(I do need to circle back and see Film Socialisme imo)

It's dire.

I have really never engaged with Godard's short film output at all..