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Sight and Sound are releasing a collection of reviews and articles on Godard from past issues of S&S and Monthly Film Bulletin in the first of a new 'Auteurs Series'

Sorry to bump this thread, but I'm looking for a Godard quote that I believe I've seen on this forum. It was a remark he made about with the advent of home video, people will stop 'watching' movies and only be collecting them. Does anyone have that quote handy? I'd like to save it somewhere as it comes across my mind all the time. Thank you!

Drucker wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2020 12:15 pm Sorry to bump this thread, but I'm looking for a Godard quote that I believe I've seen on this forum. It was a remark he made about with the advent of home video, people will stop 'watching' movies and only be collecting them. Does anyone have that quote handy? I'd like to save it somewhere as it comes across my mind all the time. Thank you!

It’s from his segment in Wenders’ Chambre 666, though I don’t have the exact quote on hand. It’s something to the effect that he loves the VCR because now he can tape movies off TV, put them on a shelf, and never have to think about them again

His segment is 10+ minutes (He keeps looking at his watch to time the film reel perfectly), so unfortunately that’s not an excerpt that contains the quote in question

This is why I shouldn't be allowed to help.

Thank you both!

short NOTRE MUSIQUE Sarajevo making of, with JLG & Mahmoud Darwich

https://vimeo.com/441351214

Great find, thanks!

Two articles in the new Senses of Cinema, on videos by JLG re: Sauve qui peut (la vie) and Passion:
http://sensesofcinema.com/2020/feature- ... uc-godard/
http://sensesofcinema.com/2020/feature- ... uc-godard/

Making one's way through Godard's varied buried essays and shorts is a project with very inconsistent results, even for someone who considers him to be the greatest living filmmaker. However, I never expected that of all the scattered files, his two 'series' of Closed Jeans commercials (lumped with the later Metamorphojeans, which is still good but nowhere near the quality of the first two) would be the best of the bunch. These are not only the funniest commercials I've ever seen, but maybe the most tonally-distinct hysterical work Godard has ever done. It's pure satire as one would expect from the Maoist executing a service towards capitalist goods, and oh what an execution it is! The first commercial begins with blathering, frantic dialogue edited so crassly over the images that the flashing pattern effect should require epileptic warnings by law. This self-parody could not be more obvious or perverse, and just when you think it's over with twenty seconds left to go he dog-ears an uproarious assaultive fit about trousers that would be laugh-out-loud funny from the vocal-chord change alone, but the obsessive-compulsive mania he exudes surrounding the specific garment one-ups his own already-established baseline of absurdist irreverence. The second part plays out as a Pierrot le Fou-type clip of a couple on a beach in the midst of some life-threatening/life-affirming 'action' platforming clothes as the signifiers of utmost meaning ("Fashion has been fighting eternity for eternities"). This clip is even more clever in how he exaggerates the drama over a fragment of would-be narrative, and includes one of the greatest serious lines in literature from Journal d'un curé de campagne to seal the deal on the relentless vibe of contemptuous gags. This is Godard at his silliest, going for broke in ways that shouldn't surprise someone who already finds him funny, but still managed to anyways.

Per Fabrice Aragno's Facebook page, Godard is apparently at work on a new project and it's to be shot (at least partly) on 35mm. Specifically, his post references a new film project "by you-know-who" and he's asking around about a fast 50mm lens in PL-mount form to fit an Arriflex 235 film camera, as well as accessories.

That makes my day! The world needs a new Godard narrative film right now. Or at least I hope it's a narrative film and not another essay.

Domino can you indulge me with your top ten Godard list if that's at all possible? If Le Petit Soldat is not on your list where does it stand?

I made this a few years ago for the New Wave List, though it only covers the first part of his career:

domino harvey wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2017 2:26 am

dda1996a wrote:Domino have you ever compiled a complete ranking of Godard? I'd be curious to see it

This is how I'd rank all his films from this era:
À bout de souffle (1960)
Pierrot le fou (1965)
La Chinoise (1967)
Masculin Féminin (1966)
Week End (1967)
Une femme est une femme (1961)
Vivre sa vie (1962)
One Plus One (1968)
Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)
Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick (1957)
Le Mépris (1963)
Charlotte et son Jules (1958)
Une femme mariée (1964)
Le Grand escroc (1964)
Bande à part (1964)
Les Carabiniers (1963)
Made in U.S.A. (1966)
2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (1967)
Le Gai savoir (1968)
La Paresse (1961)
Le Petit soldat (1960)
Il Nuovo mondo (1962)
Anticipation, ou: l'amour en l'an 2000 (1967)
Montparnasse-Levallois (1965)

Unseen (I think-- I may have seen these and just can't remember them): Reportage sur Orly (1964), Caméra-oeil (1967), L'amore (Andate e ritorno dei figli prodighi) (1967)

I've since seen L'amore and would rate it between La Gai savoir and La Paresse, and Caméra-oeil, which is probably somewhere around that level

Have you been steadfast on this order as time has gone? And thanks!!!

Nah, though few have changed in any dramatic way (perhaps my esteem for Bande a part has lowered slightly and Le mepris has def risen as I've gotten older). Though as of right now I've swung back around for the fiftieth time to preferring Pierrot le fou over A bout de souffle, though it's usually one of these two duking it out for top spot! And Montparnasse-Levallois will always be his worst work of this first period

I’m surprised you don’t have the top ten from the summer of Jean.

The doc with my ballot got lost with my laptop crash last fall!

The terrors of the before Letterboxd times.

Luckily you've both posted your lists in the dedicated thread, so you don't need it!

In the immortal words of Foghorn Leghorn, why I do declare!

domino harvey wrote: Tue Oct 30, 2018 7:27 pm My lists, with orphans highlighted

GODARD
01 À bout de souffle (1960)
02 Pierrot le fou (1965)
03 La Chinoise (1967)
04 Masculin Féminin (1966)
05 Week End (1967)
06 Une femme est une femme (1961)
07 Vivre sa vie (1962)
08 Nouvelle Vague (1990)
09 One Plus One (1968)
10 Detective (1985)
11 Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)
12 Le Mépris (1963)
13 Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980)
14 JLG/JLG (1995)
15 King Lear (1987)
16 Tout va bien! (1972)
17 Notre musique (2004)
18 Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro (1991)
19 Bande à part (1964)
20 Histoire(s) du cinéma (var.)

I really wish I participated in that list project... having finally finished off the lingering subbed shorts and commercials a few months ago, I may as well give it a shot:

1. Pierrot le Fou
2. Masculin Féminin
3. Weekend
4. Une femme est une femme
5. Notre Musique
6. Le Mépris
7. Sauve qui peut (la vie)
8. La Chinoise
9. À bout de souffle
10. Le Gai Savoir
11. Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
12. JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
13. Vivre sa vie
14. Detective
15. Hélas pour moi
16. Nouvelle Vague
17. King Lear
18. 2 or 3 Things I know About Her
19. Puissance de la parole/ The Power of Speech
20. Closed Jeans (series 1 and 2) + Metamorphojean (commercials)

If the list was features only, Numero Deux and One Plus One would move in (or maybe Tout va Bien.. can the list go up to 21?) More than most filmmaker rankings, this list will reshape itself tomorrow, and almost entirely arbitrary beyond the top two

I just found out that back in December Michael Witt posted on Facebook a link to a very rare film from the personal archive of Mike Dibb available on Vimeo.

In Witt's post he mentioned the following:

It’s a short film he directed for the BBC in July 1968 in Cowdray Park, where Godard was shooting a sequence for ONE PLUS ONE. It was broadcast on BBC2 within the framework of the arts magazine RELEASE on the 30 November 1968 to coincide with the screening (which has become famous…) of ONE PLUS ONE at the London Film Festival.

This version of the film is not the final broadcast version, for which the commentary, spoken here by Dibb, was replaced by that of a professional.

We learn from this little film that the film crew filmed by Godard in the Eve Democracy (Anne Wiazemsky) sequence is the BBC crew that had come with Dibb to film the interview with Godard, and found themselves immediately co-opted into the latter’s film. (Apparently there was no film in the camera that ‘films’ Wiazemsky.)

A longer version of Dibb’s interview with Godard was published at the time in THE LISTENER.

Upon re-reading parts of Michael Witts Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema Historian, i came to this:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2020/feat ... fn-39516-5
and found the corresponding film/video here:
https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/special-cine ... eo:9923322
It might be old news to some, but was new to me.