Jean-Luc Godard

[pzman84]

Is it just me or is this the most useless board we ever created (that aside, I think the comments on the NYTimes are informative, just the whole concept of going after a typo seems stupid).

[Kirkinson]

So I wrote the public editor. His response:

Truffaut wrote the story, Godard the screenplay. No correction necessary, Breathless is a film by Truffaut.

This indicates a bit more than a typo.

[HerrSchreck]

The funniest thing was that in the first post the Official Authority the poster wanted to contact for the faux "correction" was Gary Tooze's DVD compare site (rather than the copyright office, French academy, or Godard.)

[Grimfarrow]

The Imamura mistake on Village Voice will be fixed. Here's what I just received:

Thanks for pointing out the mistake. We'll run a correction in next week's paper, and append it to the web version of the article.

[yoshimori]

We'll run a correction in next week's paper.

That's sweet and all. But that kind of mistake makes one worry whether the VV film editor is reading his critics' stuff.

Oh. Wait a minute. I just had an even more scary thought. Maybe...

[Grimfarrow]

We'll run a correction in next week's paper.

That's sweet and all. But that kind of mistake makes one worry whether the VV film editor is reading his critics' stuff.

Oh. Wait a minute. I just had an even more scary thought. Maybe...

Dennis has been on a vacation to Southeast Asia, so he didn't see the Imamura obit. Usually this stuff doesn't escape him.

[yoshimori]

Dennis has been on a vacation to Southeast Asia, so he didn't see the Imamura obit. Usually this stuff doesn't escape him.

Well, that explains the lapse. But it ruins my dig! Drats!

[HerrSchreck]

Well then no more vacations in heroin central. He's indispensable. I can see next year's vacation issue:

KURASAWA SET TO REMAKE HIS CLASSIC MUSICAL "INTOLERANCE". Young film director Akira Kurosawa, of SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON fame, is all set to remake his legendary film INTOLERANCE, an intimate chamber drama about a hemopheliac shoeshine-box-footrest woodcarver who gets his head stuck inna ceiling after a dip on the trampoline. Ruth Buzzey is set to star in the lead.

[Grimfarrow]

I thank you for kindly naming my parent's birthplace "herion central" :rolleyes:

[HerrSchreck]

Now that's sensitive. That's really sensitive. That's total Academy Award For Looking To Guilt-Trip.

Are you kidding? This stuff is ancient history. The heroin coming out of the golden triangle weighs more than your relatives & perhaps supercedes in significance. Plus I don't even know you so how could I have ever ever ever known?, (unless maybe youre my mom or something posting-- then again she wasn't born inna golden triangle. Wait a minute that was your mom. But what if you're my brother-- then your mother would be my mother.. wait a minnit she's still not from gold Triangle, so you must be you) But you can submit a global family tree for me so I can tiptoe around it omitting mention of social evils in zones with a niece or steptoe.

I'd provide an emoticon but there is none for choking on my own spit. =P~

[hellboytr]

As you probably noticed after watching the Documents DVD, "Meeting Woody Allen" is mainly in English, only at the beginning and in the end there are French spoken parts by Godard...

For those of you who can't decipher Godard's French riddles, here are the approximate English translations, courtesy of a dear friend of mine, except when the words fade into the background(?) music and become nearly inaudible:

1 00:00:00.584 - 00:00:06.600
I remember, yes I remember well what the Greek writer told me.

2 00:00:08.012 - 00:00:15.424
He said that the blackbirds were the only ones who left the forest and followed humans into the cities.

3 00:00:16.220 - 00:00:20.999
And that's how I lost my friend.

4 00:00:22.283 - 00:00:26.957
He was now in the city. I was wondering what became of him. I wrote him...

5 00:00:27.125 - 00:00:32.578
The answer was slow to come because communication is difficult.

6 00:01:01.431 - 00:01:04.404
And that's how...

7 00:01:05.307 - 00:01:07.288
i lost my friend...

8 00:01:07.644 - 00:01:11.934
He was now in the city. I was wondering what became of him. I wrote him.

9 00:01:12.557 - 00:01:17.757
The answer was slow to come because communication is difficult.

10 00:01:18.292 - 00:01:26.242
Must go thru satellites, in all the universe... Finally I got a postcard with a plane ticket. He was asking me to come visit him.

11 00:01:27.547 - 00:01:32.005
So I took the plane and I went to see him.

12 00:01:32.538 - 00:01:35.471
See what became of this blackbird.

13 00:01:35.798 - 00:01:40.030
How he continued to sing in the city.

14 00:01:40.769 - 00:01:43.636
He must have made his nest somewhere.

/*** Literally a "hole", i.e. a place for himself ***/

15 00:01:45.269 - 00:01:47.419
What was his song now?

16 00:24:39.388 - 00:24:42.647
/**** i can't hear the beginning ****/

Lucky Luke

/*** French comic character, a lonesome cowboy ***/

17 00:24:43.518 - 00:24:48.406
Lucky Jean-Luc

/ *** can't hear the end ***/

18 00:25:03.537 - 00:25:06.510
and the city blackbird, must he stay

19 00:25:07.444 - 00:25:12.717
in his apartments, in his streets, in his cars.

20 00:25:13.044 - 00:25:16.032
That's it. The meeting is over.

I'll post English subtitles for the beautiful Lettre a Freddy Buache soon.

[kalavin]

Nice work, hellboytr. Much appreciated. Now if my copy would only arrive...

At this pint, I'm fairly certain my copy was lost in the mail [it shipped May 31 to the US]. I got my ECM DVD, which shipped after the "Documents" book, but the book has yet to arrive. Amazon.fr says I've got to wait another two more weeks before they will reship.

[Fellini-Hexed]

Yes, thank you hellboytr; I was able to decipher some of what Godard says at the beginning, but your friends' translations fill in what I missed (the metaphor of the blackbird, etc).

And I have to agree with your ebullient glee about this book: it is effing astonishing. I've thoroughly skimmed it (if that's possible), reading bits and pieces here and there with my made in Ontario grade 11 French, and it is absolutely a must-have for Godard lovers. Over 50% of the book is made up Godard's scripts, press-books, articles, poems and other ephemera (I'm sure I'm not the only lover of Godard's work who thinks of him as a great poet, certainly!). I've never seen anything like it. And the fact that an hour of Godard's work which is rarely if ever available for viewing is tucked into the spine is..., well I'm going to shortly explode with pleasure. Seriously, worth every penny ($40 or so American?). The only other book I have on my shelf to compare it to (not an exhaustive or universally compatable system of measurement, but hey, it's the only one I got) is the huge Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' catalogue "Fatal Coincidences: Hitchock and Art" which accompanied their 2000/01 exhibition of artworks related to Hitch's films, as well as original art work for (Dali's Spellbound pieces) and props from them. Reading further, there is (at least) one name common to both books: Dominique Paiini, who co-edited and co-curated the Montreal catalogue and exhibition, also provides access to documents from Godard she (he?) owns to the project, and an essay on the development and structure of the Pompidou show. Godard's love and appreciation of Hitchcock is well known, of course, so the connection is quite natural. I know nothing of Paiini but these two catalogues, and am sure other members know more of his (her?) work.

The commercials, by the way, are magnificent: poetic, beautiful, parodic (I think!). Would that the world was full of commercials of this calibre!

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Can I put this here?:

NYT article on the Pompidou exhibition

Sounds like a lot of fun, actually. Too bad I'll never see it. Use Bugmenot if it asks for a login and you don't have one.

Edit: For some reason it asks me to pay when I access the article from here, but not when I access it from the NYT site. Go here and scroll down near the bottom ("Jean-Luc Godard, France's Film Provocateur, Directs His Own Tribute," in the left-hand column) if you can't get to it from the above link.

[hellboytr]

I know nothing of Paiini but these two catalogues, and am sure other members know more of his (her?) work.

I am aware of Dominique Païni mostly in the context of Straub/Huillet films. An excellent article by him has recently appeared on sensesofcinema:
Straub, Hölderlin, Cézanne

[Arn777]

Finally visited the exhibition today, quite an interesting display, I took some photos, which I will try to post - if i manage to find out how - or am happy to email them to those of you interested.

[hellboytr]

I took some photos, which I (...) am happy to email them to those of you interested.

Thanks for your offer; i for one am dead interested =P~
My e-mail : [email protected]

[Arn777]

No probs; will do once I'm back in the UK on Monday, only 3 or 4 good ones, as the 3 rooms were quite dark.

Several articles on the exhibition in yesterday's Liberation

[Oedipax]

And the new issue of Film Comment has a write-up with (as far as I can remember) the first published photograph of the exhibition itself.

[hellboytr]

And latest "cinema scope" magazine has "FILM/ART: Travels to Dystopia : JLG in Paris" By Andréa Picard

[wbumble]

Hello, I was thinking of borrowing some French R2 discs from a friend, but before I do, was wondering if someone could either post or direct me to some subtitles for these:

2 or 3 things I know about her
Alphaville
A Woman is a Woman
&
Le Doulos

Does anyone have information on the transfer quality of the French editions of these dvds? It would be greatly appreciated.

[hellboytr]

Does anyone have information on the transfer quality of the French editions of these dvds? It would be greatly appreciated.

titles.box.sk

[wbumble]

thanks alot, I'll check it out - hard to sift through from a google search to get a decent subs site, thanks very much.

[der_Artur]

ECM is brining out a DVD containing ORIGIN OF THE 21ST CENTURY, LIBERTE
ET PATRIE & JE VOUS SALUE SARAJEVO.

Is this one discussed in an other thread I overlooked or does no one have it yet?

[hellboytr]

Is this one discussed in an other thread I overlooked or does no one have it yet?

Godard Shorts on DVD from ECM