Jean-Luc Godard: S and D

life imitating art:

Worst traffic jam ever? Gridlock spans 60 miles

He's getting an honorary Academy Award this year. They trotted out Satyajit Ray and Elia Kazan when they were on death's doorstep, so maybe this means he's sick. In any event, I hope it's part of the televised ceremony, and I hope he attends. It will be very moving to see him get a standing ovation from Miley Cyrus.

...as she mouths "who???" to the person seated to her right.

Le Mepris is great, everything else I've seen has been mostly a bore.

lol at the thought of the compendium of clips

No clips; Billy Crystal will do a lighthearted song-and-dance reenactment of everyone's favorite scenes from Weekend, La Chinoise, and Letter to Jane.

Have they found him yet?

Somehow missed this news.

He's not coming, and good for him.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/jean-luc-godard-to-be-an-oscar-no-show/story-e6frg8n6-1225915014578

he should send polanski

i would think more "good for him" if this wasn't the reason:

"He just told me, 'It's not the Oscars,' " she says, referring to his reaction on learning about the award. "At first he thought it was going to be part of the same ceremony, then he realised it was a separate thing in November."

At a time when a movie like Crash can win best picture I don't know why anyone gives a shit.

Ugh, that was worded badly.

I think that article probably overstates the non-televised thing as being a factor. I doubt he'd have shown up anyway, and that was just another reason to skip it.

Well, maybe not that article, but a different one I read that used the same quote. Definitely bed time.

At a time when a movie like Crash can win best picture I don't know why anyone gives a shit.

― optimizing the emotional effects of Redneck Hoe by Insane Clown Posse (corey), Tuesday, September 7, 2010 5:54 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah im sure jlg wishes it were the 50s, when classics like 'around the world in 80 days' took best picture

all gone downhill since then

wait Jackie Chan's 80?

JLG is meant to be a know-nothing misanthrope, I think it's part of the charm

i would think more "good for him" if this wasn't the reason

It's a perfectly good reason, just as it was insulting to have Bacall and Corman wave from the audience last March while the telecast spent 15 minutes on a tribute to John fucking Hughes.

either he's dissing the academy awards for being shallow/worthless/idiotic, or he wants more screen time. u can't have it both ways.

If he was so shrewd, he'd film himself in his limo getting stuck in the traffic jam on the way to the Academy Awards.

can't believe they snubbed the great auteur corman while paying tribute to john hughes

loooool

mayne swinging for zing thread

swingin' for a zingin'

Corman >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hughes

^^always hoped the day wld come that i cld agree w morbs abt something, and this is that happy day! even if you discount all the fucking great movies corman directed, no other producer can claim to have given so many notable young directors their first proper break in the biz (coppola, hellman, towne, dante, scorsese, demme etc etc)

if u discount the movies u have no argument whatsoever! he gave ppl starts, yay!

better to say like french critics that his films were "desperate cries from the heart of a grotesque fastfood culture", a phrase i like to pass off as my own while applying it to whatever the current topic is.

Sixteen Candles vs The Masque of the Red Death

is Chic-Fil-A shedding tears?

k, having been to Atlanta last month I know what Chick-Fil-A is, but huh?

"desperate cries from the heart of a grotesque fastfood culture"

A dispatch from the grotesque fast food culture.

One opened on campus a few weeks ago – still haven't tried it.

oh i guess

can't wait for nrq's "zing" after these Oscars on merits of Godard second-class award vs Corey Haim tribute

Chick-Fil-A = crinkle fries + pickle on chicken sandwich + weird Christian bent

xps

would rather watch the Lost Boys than Pierrot le Fou again tbqh

i met kevin brownlow -- very briefly -- this summer. true story.

winstanley >>>> any fucking godard film post-1967 imho

I had no idea Corey Haim was in Winstanley

if u discount the movies u have no argument whatsoever! he gave ppl starts, yay!

oh right, they don't give out 'honorary' oscars to producers, then?

but don't let me keep you from making hilar generalisations abt 'french film critics'

omg beef

The Thalberg award goes to producers, right?

Film Socialisme got me drunk on movies high-definition video again

how anti-semitic on a scale 1-10

just right, like the porridge Goldilocks chose

(I think some of the walkouts that seemed to occur whenever a PALESTINE title went on the screen made me think "well, old Jews, Lincoln Center...")

yeh i was glad glen kenny 'went there' re jlg's anti-semitism. 'lol european intellectuals' basic'ly.

more like anti-Israel imho

Kenny was quoting somebody, mostly

No, there's def. stuff in FS that goes beyond anti-Israel. At least in the fan-subtitled version. Not sure how it's rendered in "Navajo English".

i dunno the 'gold mountain' gag doesn't sound too much related to israel

How completely arrogantly inscrutable is it on a scale of In Praise of Love to Notre Musique?