I haven't heard Adrian Martin's commentary on the Australian DVD--does he mention the Nietzsche connection at all?

[Le gai savoir] comes sometimes with the very clumsy translation of 'The Gay Science', which is also how the book by Friedrich Nietzsche is translated. But the sense of it has not much to do with either gayness or science; it's more like 'Joyful Wisdom'.

According to Intermedio the aspect ratio for For Ever Mozart is 1.66:1? I would probably buy this box if only there was a decent (non-cropped) transfer of this particular film!

JUNE 21
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THE OLD PLACE (1998) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville
Commissioned by MoMA, this short video essay subtitled Small Notes Regarding the Arts at
Fall of 20th Century explores the meaning and state of modern art in typically Godardian
fashion: it’s philosophical, frequently funny, maddeningly obtuse, political, and revelatory.
Screening with JLG/JLG (1995) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Mixing wintry, rapturously beautiful footage shot near Godard’s Swiss home with broad
ranging references to literature and philosophy, JLG’s elliptical self-portrait offers a tantalizing
and elusive glimpse into the director's thought process. “Radiant, cranky, tender, poignant,
voluptuous, revelatory, this putative self-portrait is actually an elegy for the death of cinema”
(Amy Taubin, The Village Voice).

If you're looking for material on Godard's work from the late eighties and early nineties then I think Daniel Morgan's dissertation is definitely worth reading. It's called "A Feeling of Light: Cinema, Aesthetics, and the Films of Jean-Luc Godard at the end of the Twentieth Century."... The films he works the closest with are 'Keep Your Right Up,' 'Nouvelle Vague' and 'Germany: Year 90 9 0,' but he covers pretty much all of the films and videos of that period. His argument is about how Godard's films fit in with debates about modernism, post-modernism, and the "death of cinema" that accompanied the introduction of digital formats and video and their ability to manipulate the image and challenge its authority. He's specifically interested in how Godard often draws upon the aesthetics of the German idealists and how that relates to the criticism of aesthetics put forward by the various schools of modernism.

Great link - thanks Ovader! What footage are you looking for?

Thanks to Bill Krohn, who just pointed out to me this "post-scriptum" to the ten-part/two-hour JLG interview from April 27th conducted by Edwy Plenel, Ludovic Lamant, and Sylvain Bourmeau for Mediapart. A shot — taken in JLG's work-studio, at his own prompting — of a film in-playback: an unreleased short by Godard around the painter Georges de La Tour.