Jean-Luc Godard
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I don't have the Interviews book on hand right now, but I'm pretty sure he more or less disowned Contempt in the 1970's as well, and precisely as a "bourgeois" film.
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Godard is a contrarian and even in regards to evaluating his work. So, I think you have to regard those kind of statements in the context of which they were stated. Even on the Contempt Blu-Ray extra, he's alternately reflective and critical of the film....repeat wrote:I don't have the Interviews book on hand right now, but I'm pretty sure he more or less disowned Contempt in the 1970's as well, and precisely as a "bourgeois" film.
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He said all kinds of ridiculous things in the late '60s and '70s, like calling Au hasard Balthazar "disgusting" because of its catholicism. This was maybe 2 years after praising it. It was a phase...
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While vacationing in California, I stumbled upon an excellent DVD/VHS rental store (Cinefile, for those who are familiar with it. While there, I came across two VHS tapes that were for sale of Godard films that I assumed were rare: King Lear and JLG/JLG. I picked up both immediately (even though my VHS player is currently broken).
So, I ask, is the Italian DVD of King Lear projecting the film improperly, as it is in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio. From what I understand, most Godard films from this era are in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio. The VHS is obviously shown in this ratio, and if this is the proper ratio, I won't even bother with importing the current and only DVD release.
Finding JLG/JLG made me very excited, since, from what I understand, that one hasn't made it to DVD yet, and the Amazon prices are fetching upwards of $100. I only paid $10 for the VHS tape
So, I ask, is the Italian DVD of King Lear projecting the film improperly, as it is in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio. From what I understand, most Godard films from this era are in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio. The VHS is obviously shown in this ratio, and if this is the proper ratio, I won't even bother with importing the current and only DVD release.
Finding JLG/JLG made me very excited, since, from what I understand, that one hasn't made it to DVD yet, and the Amazon prices are fetching upwards of $100. I only paid $10 for the VHS tape
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The King Lear DVD is incorrectly matted into widescreen, it is most def shot and intended in 1.33 and the VHS accurately represents this
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Good news. It seems as though many of Godard's 1.33:1 films have been cropped on their DVD releases (I remember the DVD of For Ever Mozart being like this, and I think In Praise of Love suffered a similar fate).
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JLG/JLG is available on DVD with English subs in the Gaumont Godard box.criterion10 wrote:Finding JLG/JLG made me very excited, since, from what I understand, that one hasn't made it to DVD yet
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You can also buy it individually. With these shorts apparently:
La paresse
Le grand escroc
Anticipation
Lettre à Freddy Buache
Meetin' WA
La paresse
Le grand escroc
Anticipation
Lettre à Freddy Buache
Meetin' WA
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Didn't realize that. Guess that doesn't make my VHS so rare after all.yoshimori wrote:JLG/JLG is available on DVD with English subs in the Gaumont Godard box.
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New retro at Film Society of Lincoln Center:
New York, NY (September 5, 2013) -- The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today that the 51st New York Film Festival (NYFF, September 27 – October 13) will serve as the launching pad for a retrospective of filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard’s work. The film series, entitled Jean-Luc Godard - The Spirit of the Forms, will begin during the second week of the festival, on October 9, and continue through the end of the month, October 30. (Specifics for the schedule and titles playing after NYFF will be distributed next week.) This year’s NYFF will also play host to the 20th Anniversary screening of Richard Linklater’s DAZED AND CONFUSED on October 10 at 9PM, presented by New Wave, and with the director and members of the cast in attendance.
Reflecting on the retrospective, NYFF Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones said, “No matter how many times you’ve seen VIVRE SA VIE or FRANCE/TOUR/DETOUR/DEUX ENFANTS or NOUVELLE VAGUE, you can never know them completely: their beauties run as deep as their mysteries, their disturbances and disjunctions are as numerous as their revelations. Whenever they appear to settle into a fixed rhythm, they upend and reconfigure themselves in order to arrive at another rhythm pitched at a higher level. Godard’s work, whether it’s on film, video or HD, unfolds like no one else’s, and shocks the viewer into a new relationship with the world and with images.”
Between 1955 and today, Godard has made 45 shorts, 11 medium-length films, 40 features, three television series, a handful of commercials, and several of his own trailers. Throughout every “period” of his working life—his early heyday with the French New Wave, his explicitly political films made in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Gorin in the aftermath of May ’68 in France, his collaborative television and video work in Switzerland during the 70s with Anne-Marie Miéville, his movement between film and video from the 80s onward—he has always continually ventured into new territory.
Six Fois Deux (1976), France/Tour/Détour/Deux enfants (1979) and Histoire(s) du cinema, Godard’s three monumental series, will screen during the retrospective. Opening night on October 9 kicks off with the premieres of a new DCP of Alphaville (1965) from Rialto Pictures and a new print of Hail Mary/The Book of Mary (1985), followed by a new DCP of For Ever Mozart (1996) on Oct 11, both from The Cohen Media Group.
A longtime favorite of the film festival from its inception, Jean-Luc Godard’s films have frequently screened as part of NYFF’s Main Slate. Among the many NYFF-screened films that will be revisited during the retrospective will be; LE PETIT SOLDAT (1960), A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (1961), LES CARABINIERS (1962), BAND OF OUTSIDERS (1964), ALPHAVILLE (1965), PIERROT LE FOU (1965), MADE IN U.S.A. (1966), MASCULIN FÉMININ (1966), 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (1966), WEEKEND (1967), LE GAI SAVOIR (1968), WIND FROM THE EAST (1969), TOUT VA BIEN (1972), Every Man for Himself (1979), HAIL MARY (1985), NOUVELLE VAGUE (1990), IN PRAISE OF LOVE (2001), NOTRE MUSIQUE (2004) and FILM SOCIALISME (2010).
Jean-Luc Godard - The Spirit of the Forms is co-curated by Kent Jones and Jake Perlin. Special thanks to Bruce Goldstein, Adrienne Halpern and Eric Di Bernardo at Rialto Pictures; Tim Lanza at The Cohen Media Group; Morgane Toulouse at Gaumont; Antonin Baudry, Muriel Guidoni and Florence Almozini at French Cultural Services; Sarah Finklea at Janus Films; Rebecca Cleman at Electronic Arts Intermix; Gary Palmucci and Richard Lorber at Koch-Lorber Films; and Hanna Bruhin at Swiss Films.
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Hmm... Le mépris is conspicuously absent, but it's playing in a 50th anniversary restored print starting this Friday at Film Forum.
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It seems someone has put the whole (split into 12 parts) of France/ Tour/ Detour/ Deux/ Enfants onto youtube. I'm not aware of it being available on disc so this is a good opportunity.
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Sorry if that issue was raised here before. Just received Godard's 10 DVD box from amazon.fr - is there a chance to get English subtitles for "Conversations avec JLG" (one and only disc that is deprived of English subs) somewhere off internet?
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Did you scan it already? You could upload it to imgur.com and paste the link here, no account needed. Thanks for doing it!
It seems the complete discussion between Godard and Serge Daney (excerpted in Histoire(s) du cinéma 2A) will be shown here in unedited form. Hope it makes it to DVD at some point.
It seems the complete discussion between Godard and Serge Daney (excerpted in Histoire(s) du cinéma 2A) will be shown here in unedited form. Hope it makes it to DVD at some point.
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Watched "Forever Mozart" -- didn't _hate_ it -- but must say that I found it particularly inscrutable (and it wasn't as visually appealing as some of his 80s work (like Passion and My Name Is Carmen).
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I finally got around to For Ever Mozart a month or so ago (occasioned by the bluray's release) and my heel-dragging based upon what I'd read was more or less validated; it's definitely lesser Godard, but perhaps not as inscrutable to me even as some of his films I love. What really was lacking was the sheer aesthetic power that makes the effort of watching his late films worthwhile in the first place.
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Some of the readers of this forum might be interested to know that JLG's book 'Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television' has now been released.
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Cross posted on Cannes 2014 thread JLG on Adieu with subs
Cross posted on Cannes 2014 thread JLG on Adieu with subs
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Happy to pass along I received a copy of the first English translation of JLG's Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television published by Caboose and it was well worth the wait. Beautifully printed and having the interview questions re-united with the text makes for much coherent reading than the old French edition.
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Oh man this is brutal- The illustrated guide to IRL trolling with Jean-Luc Godard
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That's great, I wish he'd subtitled the entire Détective exchange. Could've also done without the horrible meme/trollface thing but I suppose that's life on the internet these days.
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That was by turns obnoxious, amusing, and callous. Not quite enough of the second, tho'.
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ouch, that was rough...especially the interview with JLG and anna karina. anybody know when that could've been?
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In one of those curious mirrorings that happens when one watches too many films, I was very surprised to find in Lothar Warneke's rather excellent new-wavish DEFA film Die Beunruhigung (aka Apprehension) two shots that I initially took to be little winks to contemporaneous works by Godard: the first, of an aeroplane vapour trail traversing the screen (admittedly not that rare or original an idea in the first place, but anyway always reminds me of Passion); and the second, of the main character, longing after her lover, caressing a TV screen set to a dead channel - a celebrated Godard moment if there ever was one. Initially, that is, until I noticed that Warneke's film was shot in 1981, before either Passion or Prénom Carmen was released!
Die Beunruhigung was in competition in Venice 1982, where JLG received a career Golden Lion, so theoretically he might've seen it and cribbed the TV shot for Carmen - or of course it might be just a curious coincidence, but I wouldn't put it past him
Die Beunruhigung was in competition in Venice 1982, where JLG received a career Golden Lion, so theoretically he might've seen it and cribbed the TV shot for Carmen - or of course it might be just a curious coincidence, but I wouldn't put it past him
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The second part of the Godard retrospective at TIFF has been announced:
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The real surprise for me was Grandeur et decadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma, a whole Godard fiction film made for TV that I'd never even heard about before! Starring none other than Jean-Pierre Léaud and made in 1986. Hopefully this will reach DVD, or general release asap. It seems it was shown on American (or Canadian?) TV at some point with subtitles.
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The real surprise for me was Grandeur et decadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma, a whole Godard fiction film made for TV that I'd never even heard about before! Starring none other than Jean-Pierre Léaud and made in 1986. Hopefully this will reach DVD, or general release asap. It seems it was shown on American (or Canadian?) TV at some point with subtitles.