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Thanks for that. The languages on offer at the site are German and French for the site in general (that's the 'DE/FR' in the red button at the top) and for individual articles (the 'weitere sprache/autre langue' below the byline). The original article is French, but the auto-translation gives an okay result. (My French is also okay, my German excruciating.)

Now published - the five notebooks about "Scénario", with English translation by Michael Witt. 1 000 numbered copies.
https://lelivredimageeditions.fr/en/?mc_cid=0dd1629138

Update: one of the texts in the above volume, freely available in pdf online:
https://lelivredimageeditions.fr/wp-con ... io-JLG.pdf

Stefan Andersson wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2026 5:09 pm Now published - the five notebooks about "Scénario", with English translation by Michael Witt. 1 000 numbered copies.
https://lelivredimageeditions.fr/en/?mc_cid=0dd1629138

€1,000! Nom de dieu!

Michael Witt is doing very well at, if not by, this high-end JLG stuff. I will say his JLG: Cinema Historian, on the Histoire(s), is excellent.

In case anyone missed it: https://www.criterionforum.org/forum/vi ... hp?t=18785

Upcoming release of Histoire(s) and other shorts

Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie)), 1981, viewable for free until June 9:
https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/ ... dard-1981/
Includes online article by Michael Witt. No English subs.

Shorter version of the same film, no English subs:
https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/special-cine ... eo:9923322

The above links don't work. Could they be renewed?

Stefan wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 10:02 am The above links don't work. Could they be renewed?

Update:

Hi, links are now replaced and functioning. I posted the same links in the Criterion Every Man for Himself thread (May 13 post).

Re: Michael Witt, JLG’s Unmade and Abandoned Projects (2026), I treated myself to the hardcover as a reward for going through a dental implant. A wealth of information, a good deal of which bleeds into the completed works, and the book is researched to academic standards (i.e. about 8 footnotes/page), while being quite readable.

As to the book as an expensive product: On the other hand, I had foolishly imagined from the subject and price that there would be plenty of illustrations, some perhaps in colour, e.g. from JLG’s notebooks or his published collages of proposed work. In fact they’re sparing, b&w only, there are no plates, and some are more illuminating than others.

The paper is more blindingly white than I like, but it is opaque. There's the odd repeated typo of proper nouns, e.g. “Roland Gaross stadium,” but that just proves a human being and not AI wrote the book. What really bothers me is the glue, which has rippled the opening and closing pages. Maybe an excess of glue was needed to compensate for its weakness, witness the front endpaper pulling away from the board when the dog knocked it off a low chest. So I recommend waiting for the paperback, though the price Bloomsbury Academic is asking for the e-book gives pause.

By the way, it's selling well as these things go: published January, 2nd printing by April.