Jean-Luc Godard: S and D

"clearly not that happy about it"

i mean it was colin mccabe lol

who was tbf a perfectly charming and friendly boss when i worked at the bfi but i don't rate his work explicating godard and i doubt godard does either

think i said all this at greater length upthread

The MacCabe biography spent a lot of time switching focus to wider conceptual and historical topics; Richard Brody's book was more conventional, though he is certainly not ignorant of the wider context of Godard's work.

This clip is probably well known, but just saw it linked to on Facebook - Godard on the Dick Cavett show, speaking pretty good English and generally being quite accommodating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aBogJonJ1E

Yeah that was good.

"The audience don't go to see framing?"

"But the viewer receives a film through that"

glad i watched through to the end, to hear him talk about how great he expects The Day the Clown Cried is going to be when it finally gets made

"booster kitten"

Pauline Kael wrote about this interview in her review of Sauve Qui Peut.

The disjunction between the first third of Hail Mary and the rest is stark enough to wonder if I watched two different movies or wasn't paying attention.

I found it mostly a wash, with some adolescent peeping at private parts.

I think of it as the start of the latter-day "spiritual" Godard, less world-weary than Passion and Carmen.

⚫ Jean-Luc Godard est mort https://t.co/gDLynUc7Ta pic.twitter.com/LQ5DXWPgap

— Libération (@libe) September 13, 2022

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rip jlg

https://live.staticflickr.com/3532/3184470110_13928069f9_b.jpg

I mean not really but sort of. RIP.

Au revoir, Jean-Luc.

RIP to the GOAT

God damn, RIP sir

ah shit, the real greatest, OK RIP for a bit but get yourself reincarnated if it turns out that's an option, then keep moving, keep causing trouble, shit on the bores, make another confusing and marvellous pile of things. There's a fight on and there always has been and you've always known it.

A master. One of the last great ones. He kept at it, breaking conventions and exploring, up til old age. I hope he passed away serenely at his mixing desk. Infinite thanks for helping shape the way I see and embrace films.

this also effectively means RIP Nouvelle Vague right?

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— Peter Webber (@PeterWebber) September 13, 2022

straub of straub-huillet is still with us tho he hasn't made a film for a few years now

also luc moullet and philippe garrel, but with the best will in the world…

Lots of Letterboxd kids recommend Vivre Sa Vie; what do ILX make of that one?

One of my absolute favs of his early films.

The Letterboxd kids are alright

Hopefully, he was the last bourgeois maoist in Paris.

Quite an interesting piece of hatred for JLG from the situationist international, 1966.

An apt eulogy for one whose "critiques" "never go beyond the innocuous humor typical of nightclub comics or Mad magazine":https://t.co/paLZAzkvFn pic.twitter.com/ZYXCFDxmeA

— Cured Quail (@CuredQuail) September 13, 2022

The couple of write-ups I've seen ignore his work from '68 and jump to the last few years.

What do they know?

Those cinematic tone poems he released in the last 20 years frustrate and move me. RIP.

Not much, but it was amusing xp

the period from la chinoise (1967) to numero deux (1975) is probably actually my favourite: he's swapped out "the girl, the gun" (american cinema's primary language) and swapped in "a third-world marxist student's notion of revolutionary ideology, the gun" and is falling dizzily in and out of amused lust with the latter as the relationships go awry (exactly as they did with "the girl" in every one pre-chinoise) -- all the while basically inventing ultraleft-shitposting-on-twitter as cinema's coming language (which no one takes him up on) (until twitter) 👈🏽👈🏽👈🏽
― mark s, Sunday, 26 January 2020 17:37 (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

also "basically inventing" = "largely stealing off of debord" as debord never ever stopped huffily pointing out lol

― mark s, Sunday, 26 January 2020 17:40 (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

he was a troll not a maoist (dziga vertov: also not a maoist #ffs)

also wikipedia my new nouvelle vague hero luc moullet: "In 1971, Moullet made his first color film, Une aventure de Billy le Kid, also known by its English title, A Girl Is a Gun. A psychedelic Western starring French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud, the film was never released in France, but was instead shown abroad in an English-dubbed version. The dubbing, conceived by Moullet as a tribute to the "shabbiness" he always admired in American genre films, is intentionally bad, and the short, slight Leaud is given a mismatched deep voice."

Bad week for nonagenarian Swiss filmmakers.

Cinematheque Ontario, before they moved into their fancy new building and got a little more commercial, actually had a Luc Moullet retrospective. His Billy the Kid movie is basically a student film with three actors running around the French countryside, nothing too special.

Mahmoud Darwish in Godard's Notre Musique (2004) — on the Trojan poet pic.twitter.com/yvC8mOM53s

— Bassem (@bassem__saad) September 13, 2022

a student film with three actors running around the French countryside, nothing too special

no its good (i shall never watch it)

It's not "psychedelic" either.

looking at the various obit pix and u gotta respect the g man's commitment to never combing his hair

Godard never made a film that isn't worth seeing, and never made a film that isn't better on a subsequent viewing (although I probably won't rewatch Un Film Comme Les Autres).

I thought I recognized the name, Luc Moullet's brother is Patrice Moullet, who was the main man in the band Alpes, the band that made so many albums with Catherine Ribeiro, Catherine Ribeiro who was one of the main actors in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film "Les Carabiniers"... as was Patrice Moullet!

... and who composed the soundtrack to "Une aventure de Billy le Kid".

listening to catherine ribiero and 2Bis now, its no camembert electrique

I was confusing Luc Moullet with Michel 'Charlton Heston is an axiom of the cinema' Mourlet lol

To further detail:
Luc Moullet is the joker of the nouvelle vague.
I enjoy his films when i can get to see them. Often plays a comic character in later films, somewhat in the spirit of older woody allen or Albert Brooks.
Patrice Moullet still builds new instruments in a workshop in Paris

http://www.patricemoullet-alpes.com/

Oh ... damn.

The only time I've ever told off someone in a movie audience was at a Jean-Luc Godard movie.

how did Morbs respond?

La gueule!

xp lets say I sequentially met him and Brooklyn pavement

And you reenacted a certain scene from The Squid and the Whale?

My first Godard was Hail Mary; which I'm pretty sure has to have been a bad intro.

When I finally saw Breathless, all I could think was "Grand Theft Auto: Ville de Lumiere."

I don't know that there's really a bad intro - he's always Godard?

Maybe the films from 1968 to 1979 are particularly for specialized tastes.