I’d like to think it is considerably different from Akerman but who knows, yet.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
xxxpost He's had his home editing suite in Rolle for years but just about all his productions going back to at least Film Socialisme have been semi or fully handmade affairs. Goodbye To Language was made using jerry-rigged iphones to create the (amazing) 3D effects, for example. I don't really think he was rolling in Euros.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
He (and Anne-Marie Miéville, presumably) owned a house containing a state-of-the-art video studio, I have trouble believing he was down to his last pennies.― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, September 13, 2022 12:01 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, September 13, 2022 12:01 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Poverty is always relative. Do we know if he was working on anything in the last couple of years? If he was idle during the pandemic, that could have contributed to a notion that he could not get the strength together to go on living.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
xpost(unintentional pun there with Rolle/rolling but I think he would've appreciated it somehow)
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
As with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, the fact that he's totally full of shit doesn't diminish the work in the slightest. Trickster god kinda thing.
mark s you should def watch Death's Glamour, Luc Moullet's film about Luc Moullet faking his own death in the hopes that it will revive his career. But then Jean Luc Godard dies (eerily prescient) and overshadows him.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Is there a good essay around addressing his alleged anti-Semitism? I remember the chatter when the Academy awarded him an honorary Oscar.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
There's quite a lot of information in Richard Brody's biography.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
That's right. Thanks.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
https://t.co/nbFVJuJpDv pic.twitter.com/nqsGLkvBue— vanguardism but it looks like sneakers (@motelabyss) September 13, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
extreme poverty stuff seems like bullshit to me. the man was very old and wanted to go out on his own terms.
― devvvine, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
blah blah films romanticizing capital blah blah murders countless millions of people blah blah
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
rip
― the late great, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
Alain Delon and Françoise Hardy have also said they want assisted suicide. French boomers really leading the way on breaking that taboo.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
Has Brigitte Bardot responded yet?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
Always found it cute and oddly endearing that his wives/long-term partners all had variations of the same first name: Hanne/Anna; Anne; and finally Anne-Marie.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
Yes, have though something similar. Mary's mother.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
Il y a quelque chose pas très catholique
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
Clumsy but serious question: in terms of influence, what is his (pop) musical equivalent? I'm going to spend 10 minutes talking about him and showing a couple of clips to a grade 7 class tomorrow. I thought of Elvis or the Beatles, then wondered if that was overstating it. But if you look at a Marvel film today, he's probably there somewhere in terms of technique, even if filtered through four or five other directors.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
Eno
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
i mean what if its louis armstrong
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
T A R Z A N !C O C A C O L A !L A R R Y F I N E !
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
Overstrike hard to see there :(
Armstrong not bad, but maybe Miles instead.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
Eno seems like a good one: his influence everywhere, even if someone influenced by him fifth-hand doesn't even realize it.
Now: can you give me someone on the charts right now that will help me explain Eno, even before I get to Godard?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
He himself said he saw parallels between himself and Dylan.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
James brown?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
He was from a Protestant family.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
Well there you go then.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
Gotta be Dylan, they were both massively influential and changed what was considered "good" in their respective fields. Although once they entered "difficult" periods Dylan emerged from his while Godard remained fringe.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
I think his influence is more of the Velvet Underground/Lou Reed variety. Always a hipster fixture, prone to disappearing up his own ass periodically, absorbed consciously or not into the DNA of much of what came after.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
as is (or used to be) well known on ilx i consider "influence" to be an extremely dumb word which shd be pensioned off as literally useless so i would begin by asking clemenza what exacfly he hopes to teach his students by invoking it -- because that's amlost certainly a better way to answer the question being asked
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
clemenza, when you've done these retrospectives for your classes, are there any figures you've introduced to the kids who really seemed to catch their attention? Or had the opposite reaction? The closest thing I can remember in my classes is a French teacher playing us "Amsterdam" by Jacques Brel.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
“Influence” a problematic word, I agree.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
― clemenza,
lol I haven't had a sense of "the charts right now" since, uh, 1982. Would Radiohead matter to them as an intermediate step?
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
What you're trying to do, Mark S., is give them a tangible connection to someone whose films--and the clips I will show--would probably not engage very many of them on their own. If you preface the clips with some sense of the scope of his influence, they may be more receptive.
I don't see anything wrong at all with the concept of influence.
I think the Velvet Underground is probably perfect: massive influence, virtually no commercial success of his own.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
Their memories tend to extend back a few months, I find; I've got Radiohead in this album-cover art assignment and I have, and they are always greeted with blank stares.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
I don't even know why I grew weary of the word "influence." Maybe I prefer a slightly different construction, "they drew upon" rather than "they were influenced by." But maybe mark will laugh at my formulation.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
Just don't care for statements like "They influenced everyone from The Soup Dragons to The Squirrel Nut Zippers" for some strange reason.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
Or, inspired as opposed to influenced. "Inspired by" is, I'll concede, much more meaningful than "influenced by," which often leads in the direction of, I don't know, Crazy Cavan.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
tangible connection to films is a good thing to draw their attention to and will doubtless be interesting for them
but i don't entirely understand how invoking eno or the VU as being a figure of "similar influence" helps this task (since in terms of demonstrating tangible links anything they did isn't similar, and is possibly a confusing distraction planting misleading seeds of consonance?)
(doubly so if you also have to spend time explaining who eno or the VU are, as seems p likely in this context)
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
They're the Jean-Luc Godard of rock music.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INIPKEXVJRE
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
^^TCM Tribute
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx_08cambjA
JLG cameo at 00:24.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
That was the idea of comparing him to the Beatles or Elvis--no assembly required. But it's an incomplete comparison because of the disconnect in commercial success. So no, I won't compare JLG to the Velvet Underground for a grade 7 class (although again, I think that's a perfect comparison); it'd be meaningless.
He came to Innis College around the time of Every Man for Himself and spoke to a roomful of maybe 50-100 film students. He was drolly funny--there's a six-part Dick Cavett interview on YouTube that's similar to what I saw. As I've said before, I just did not come close to appreciating this experience at the time.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
Even the most culturally-literate 7th-grader can't really conceptualize what it means for someone to be regarded as a leading figure in film for sixty years; one doesn't want to come across as pompous, but at a certain point it comes down to saying, "trust me, this was important". Obviously it would be different in a post-secondary film class.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link
You do what you can to make that happen.
Influence or inspiration (or just cheap quotation)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSFwVv_2RN4
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
Watching that TCM video my brain turned into a wikiquote generator:New York Herald Tribune! New York Herald Tribune!Il arrive que la réalité soit trop complexe pour la transmission orale.I think Penelope has been unfaithful.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
“We were just four kids in Ireland, but when we saw Brigitte Bardot in the altogether in Contempt- sorry I mean Dear Brigitte!- we knew right away etc.”
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
xps love Rip Torn getting arrested at the end of that Guerrilla Gig.
― bulb after bulb, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link