Jean-Luc Godard

[tavernier]

Coming to Brooklyn in June:

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).

[tavernier]

Hail Mary: Godard's Vision of the New Eve

[evillights]

JLG in conversation with Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Now translated to English. —

http://cinemasparagus.blogspot.com/2010 ... -cohn.html

[tenia]

JLG won't come to Cannes 2010 :

Suite à des problèmes de type grec, je ne pourrai être votre obligé à Cannes. Avec le festival, j’irai jusqu’à la mort, mais je ne ferai pas un pas de plus. Amicalement. Jean-Luc Godard.

(Be careful, there are some inside jokes in the article but the info is real).

[evillights]

The best interview in years with Godard, by Jean-Marc Lalanne yesterday for Les Inrocks. Rohmer. Copyright. YouTube. FBI warnings on DVDs. Obama. Tsunamis. Barcelona v. Arsenal. Varda. Truffaut. Now translated into English at Cinemasparagus.

http://cinemasparagus.blogspot.com/2010 ... -jean.html

[Numero Trois]

Some one on Youtube has just put up Alexander Kluge's 2001 interview short with Godard -"Blinde Liebe - Gespräch mit Jean-Luc Godard ." It does have English subtitles:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three

EDIT: REMOVED FROM YOUTUBE ](*,)

[Ovader]

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.

According to Cinema=Godard=Cinema A Feeling of Light: Cinema, Aesthetics, and the Late Films of Jean-Luc Godard is to be published but no date is announced.

[Ovader]

I was searching for more footage of Nouvelle vague online besides of what is on YouTube and came across this 13 minute behind the scenes interview with Delon from 1989. I thought some would like to view it in spite of no English subtitles and to see Godard working the film camera, rehearsing with Delon and of course helping set up the dolly tracks.

[accatone]

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

[Oedipax]

That behind the scenes stuff is wonderful, Ovader. What a find!

[Ovader]

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

I was hoping to find the complete uncropped film to view since I haven't purchased the Cahiers du Cinéma 2-disc set yet. For your viewing pleasure I came across this unreleased short with the man himself in attendance from Craig Keller's blog:

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.

If anyone knows more about the short film please share!

[accatone]

Okay - and yes, i have seen the Short on mediapart too. I am also wondering where he took the "behind-the-scenes" footage from?

[Oedipax]

Is it possibly One from the Heart? "Vittorio" is mentioned several times and the sets look like my memory of that film - plus this would've been during the period where Godard was talking to Coppola a lot about making his own film, The Story, at American Zoetrope. I think I even recall reading somewhere - maybe the MacCabe bio - about a shot Godard made on the set of One from the Heart. Would be great if anyone else can confirm!

Edit: Confirmed, it's from One from the Heart. You can see a few glimpses of the same footage in Scénario du film 'Passion', for instance this:



and this:

[Ovader]

Great Détective work Oedipax and yes that was mentioned on page 276 of MacCabe's book about the crane shot and the footage from Scénario du film 'Passion'. I suppose someone could ask Brody about it and he would probably reply that the crane shot was inspired by Godard's relationship with Karina

[Numero Trois]

Someone put up Les enfants jouent à la Russie(1993) in six parts. Hopefully it'll stay up for a while. Dense, knotty and well worth the time. Don't know about that English voiceover, though.

The same guy has Ici et ailleurs in five separate parts.

[knives]

While not as good as Notre Musique, my second venture with this sort of Godard seems to be a success. It took me nearly half the film to figure out what Godard was saying (by the way what exactly was the VO on the Kubrick part). I especially liked the self-deprecation during the beginning and ending parts. Anybody know what the cause was for this film? Seems an odd time to speaking of Russia. Also what relationship does this have with Histories du Cinema? Some places say it was edited into an episode.

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Anybody know what the cause was for this film?

Aaron Spelling's company hired him to make a TV documentary about Russia.

[knives]

So that wasn't a joke?! What could Spelling have been thinking? At least something good came out of it though. It's a bit funny to see Godard's take of his own work though.

[domino harvey]

Does anyone have the French One Plus One Blu-ray?

[Numero Trois]

While not as good as Notre Musique, my second venture with this sort of Godard seems to be a success. It took me nearly half the film to figure out what Godard was saying (by the way what exactly was the VO on the Kubrick part).

When it comes to works that are this prickly, I try to give it several viewings. For me it's a foregone conclusion that the first time isn't going to be enough to absorb it. For instance, In Praise of Love I watched at least four times. Same with Hélas pour moi. It's too bad many "professional" reviewers don't seem to realize the necessity of this.

[knives]

It should most definitely be more rewarding now that I can place it within itself. While those multiple viewings are needed to get a real feel for any movie, good or bad, I do sympathize with the situation many reviewers find themselves in. To fit in all of the movies on their schedule in a timely manner they will have to sacrifice this completeness. Of course when confronted with such a clear question mark as this they probably should realize their immediate reaction might not be the one they hold on subsequent viewings. That definitely is missing from most reviewers (the only recent exception I can think of is Ebert in regards to Gallo and that took a lot of effort on both parties).

[Dick Laurent]

Godard will receive an honorary Oscar in November, well deserved. here

[mikkelmark]

But will he come? Didn't he already ditch among others the European Film Award Lifetime achievement? Vaguely remember something about Wenders being upset or something like that.

[cdnchris]

He'll ditch it and say something dismissive and "outrageous" about it I'm sure. And whatever it is won't be all that shocking or surprising.

The only thing that would be shocking is if he did show up (which would only be cool if it was the actual Award show anyways.)

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

So the Academy's been trying to give Godard the "good news" and they can't even reach him. Heh.