― N_RQ, Monday, 11 July 2005 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― 007 (thoia), Monday, 11 July 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 11 July 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 11 July 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― 007 (thoia), Monday, 11 July 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― 007 (thoia), Monday, 11 July 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
do you mean me???? i try pretty hard not to be obscure, well most of the time. i don't really see a value in being obscure. when i'm being obscure it's because i don't really have much to say or only a little to say and am trying to avoid people coming to that realization. but i'm trying to have that happen less and less.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 11 July 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
ray durgnat's posthumous thing in film comment recently was good on this point. for godard, spielberg isn't allowed to make a film about the resistance, but godard is allowed to make a film about the algerian war. hey-ho.
― n_RQ, Monday, 11 July 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link
And Palenstine!
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― 007 (thoia), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― 007 (thoia), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Only in the least denigratory manner possible. It comes from someone who thinks that Godard these days is, as per Network, crusty but benign.... er, neither does that mean I'm calling you crusty. Never mind.
but i'm trying to have that happen less and less.
Whereas Godard appears to be doing it on purpose more and more, I suppose.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― 007 (thoia), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 02:05 (eighteen years ago) link
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― N_RQ, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Should I see La Chinoise?
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 9 January 2006 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 9 January 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
alba -- you mean 'the terminal'.
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
HE says... Like mid-'80s Morrissey's claims of celibacy, I bet.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 January 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Four Seasons, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Style over oeuvre!
― Four Seasons, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― steviespitfire (steviespitfire), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link
I see my library just got a copy of Notre Musique. Should I rent it?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I rent it when it ws available at mine. Its so incredibly disjointed -- there isn't enough of that energy you get between the formal stuff and simplicity of any of the message.
Watched "Elegy for Love", and I love the shots -- you still get the feeling he's out there somewhere with his digital camera (or whatever) and just getting his eye working, whether it ends on a film or not.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 September 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw La Chinoise again last night and liked most parts I was awake for.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I still haven't seen it yet but school library has the full Histoire(s) Du Cinema, which I'm desperate to see. Also one of my professors mentioned a recent study that proved Godard's quotations usually come from either the first or the last few pages of whatever text he is quoting from. So he's just like the rest of us, really.
― admrl, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
haha i am glad people are doing studies of that sort of thing.
tho i think jlg copped to it himself.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"lols i haven't really read marx i was too busy sexing anna karina losers"
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Wouldn't you?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
well obv.
though i get the impression from the biogs that he wasn't rly, much...
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/vivresavieblog.jpg
― Tom D., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
No wonder she always looked so bored
what did he see in Anna Wiazemsky tho?
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
she was a research project into lefty student youth, kindd of, plus she worked with bresson.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Seven years younger
― Tom D., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
she was friends with cohn-bendit and that lot, and he was kind of fascinated by them. she was possibly an adviser on masculin-feminin, his first film on "that lot". he met a bunch of them at that time, late '65 -- j-p gorin, who he also worked with, too.
i think she's done an autobiography.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
A compilation of Godard bits would be his greatest film ever, and a project he might himself approve. Other than Breathless and Band of Outsiders and maybe Pierrot le Fou, his films have as many dull or awful moments as wondrous ones.
(I did like Notre Musique a lot though).
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
one doesn't have to marry one's research projects!
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Week-End Bande A Part Contempt Masculin Feminin A Woman is a Woman
are all wonderful
Alphaville Breathless Eloge d'amour
are okay
the rest are either forgettable or i haven't seen them
― remy bean, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
hooray: band of outsiders, la chinoise, weekend, most of breathless, pierrot le fou
alright i guess: two or three things..., masculin-feminin, the little bit of histoire(s) du cinema i watched once
buhhh: alphaville, the parts of contempt that don't have bardot in them
sauve qui peut has a funny isabelle huppert getting spanked scene if i recall
― impudent harlot, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't know what i think about any of them any more, but i think it's important to see all of his films up to the early seventies, or maybe a bit later. i don't get much out of the later ones that i've seen.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I mostly find Contempt a beautiful bore.
Tout va Bien is fun! (esp long supermarket take)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i think 'alphaville' is one of my favourites, today.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link