Godard

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grand theft sparrow

La Chinoise is screening at the Film Forum in NYC next week.

http://www.filmforum.org/films/chinoise.html


MacGuffin

Godard says he stole money to make movies: report

French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard has confessed that he stole money to finance his films in an interview with a German newspaper to be published on Thursday.

"I had no choice. Or at least it seemed that way to me. I even stole money from my family to give to (fellow French director Jacques) Rivette for his first film. I pinched money to be able to see films and to make films," he told Die Zeit weekly.

Godard's first film "Breathless", starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, is considered to be a groundbreaking work of the French New Wave.

He cemented his reputation with "Contempt", "Pierrot le Fou" and "Two or Three Things I Know About Her".

Godard, 76, is due to receive a lifetime achievement award from the European Film Academy in Berlin on Saturday.

He told Die Zeit he had little time for most contemporary filmmakers.

"Most directors, and three-quarters of the people who will receive prizes in Berlin, only pick up the camera to feel alive. They do not use it to see things that you cannot see without a camera."

Rivette's first feature-length film "Paris Belongs to Us" hit screens in 1960, the same year as "Breathless."
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tpfkabi

Quote from: w/o horse on August 20, 2007, 11:45:16 AM
The gas station fight was a personal favorite.

Yes, that was my favorite part.
Loved when the midget guy pointed the gun at Karina and then she ran the scissors across the frame.
I'll have to see this again before I fully know what I think.

The Godard/Karina extra on the DVD was interesting, but I just looked at IMDB and noticed they paired up for Made in USA afterwards. Even in the documentary they seem to act like Pierrot Le Fou was their last film together. Reading though, it seems Made in USA was never released in the US because of legalities. Still, you figure Criterion would at least show clips of it (unless I missed it).

I was very suprised that my local Hasting's had Pierrot for $29.99.
They also have the recent box set for that price. I see it's a little cheaper online, but I'm just in shock that they even had both. I wonder if I should get it...
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The Perineum Falcon

Has anyone picked up the March/April (or any) issue of The Believer?
I know it's a couple months late, but I JUST found it last week (some stores are still selling it, and I'm sure you can back order it), and thought to share with you guys as soon as I had the time and chance.
Generally, it's a literary magazine, but every now and then they devote an entire issue to Film, and this one includes a dvd of "virtually unseen short films documenting Jean-Luc Godard's travels in the U.S."
When I first heard about it, I figured it MIGHT be an hour's worth, but - to my pleasant surprise - it has nearly 3 HOURS of material!

JLG in USA

1.Two American Audiences
Announcing itself as "a typical Pennebaker production of a typical Godard visit," JLG speaks with grad students and Serge Losique at NYU in April 1968. Pennebaker: "When Jean-Luc Godard came to New York to make a film (1 A.M./1 P.M.) with me and Ricky Leacock, he was anxious to see America before the revolution broke out, torn up as it was with the Vietnam furor. Godard's most recent film, La Chinoise, was playing, and Columbia University students, who had initiated their student uprising on the day the film opened, were pouring into the theater. This to our unexpected delight, for when Godard had arranged for us to distribute the film, we had done so with misgiving since his films were not normally known to fill theaters. So as we laughed at his sly remarks, it occurred to us that there were two audiences involved here, and maybe that our film should be about that. It might also be noted that the date of the filming, April 4, 1968, was the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. Of course, none of us in the room knew about that then."

2.Godard in America
Spring 1970: Godard and Gorin, on the road, visiting colleges, speaking with Andrew Sarris, and explaining, through illustrated notebooks, their newest Dziga Vertov Group project, a film on Palestine.

3.A Weekend at the Beach with Jean-Luc Godard
Casual video footage from Del Mar Beach, San Diego, of Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Tom Luddy, Alive Waters, Win Wenders, and Heiner Müller, swimming, eating, smoking, with Ira Schneider's wonderfully droll narration. With a newly recorded audio introduction by Schneider.

4.The Dick Cavett Show
On the occasion of the release of Godard's newest film, Sauve qui peut (la vie), two thirty-minute episodes of The Dick Cavett Show were filmed. Funny and introspective, the names--Lewis, Coppola, Schroeder, Scorcese, Hawks, Preminger, Bukowski--and profundities hurtle past at an astonishing clip.

5.Godard in Oakland
A slideshow of Jeffrey Blankfort's photographs of Godard's visit to the Bay Area at the time of Huey Newton's trial in Oakland.

And the articles themselves are just as great as the dvd, and have a wide-range of topics like: Polish Movie Posters; an article on Jonas Mekas; interviews with Mike Leigh, John Sayles, Julie Delpy, Arthur Bradford, and Sam Mendes; and much, much more!!!
We often went to the cinema, the screen would light up and we would tremble, but also, increasingly often, Madeleine and I were disappointed. The images had dated, they jittered, and Marilyn Monroe had gotten terribly old. We were sad, this wasn't the film we had dreamed of, this wasn't the total film that we all carried around inside us, this film that we would have wanted to make, or, more secretly, no doubt, that we would have wanted to live.

tpfkabi

I don't believe I've ever heard or seen the magazine but I might have to try and order that issue.
Thanks for the tip.
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MacGuffin

Holocaust tale piques auteur
Godard eyes Mendelsohn adaptation, sources say
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Even as he approaches 80, Jean-Luc Godard keeps on trucking.

The icon of the French New Wave has been toiling away on "Le socialisme," a political story that could be ready as early as this year.

Now there's word he's circling "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million," a first-person Holocaust tome from New York Times writer Daniel Mendelsohn, as a possible directing vehicle.

Mendelsohn's book, a best-seller when it came out three years ago, traces the writer's quest to determine his relatives' fate in the small town of Bolechow, Poland, during World War II and expands into larger questions of guilt and collective responsibility.

"Lost" won a National Book Critics Circle prize in the U.S. and made a splash in France, picking up the country's prestigious Prix Medicis.

Godard, who turns 79 in the fall, never has taken on the Holocaust directly, but several of his films -- including the Algerian war picture "Le petit soldat," the anti-war pic "Les carabiniers" and his most recent work, the 2004 triptych "Notre musique" -- deal with complex political and philosophical questions.

As for "Le socalisme," an unofficial French-language trailer shows it mixing documentary and feature footage from countries throughout Europe, much of it with political themes.

There even was word, later proved premature, that the movie would be ready for the just-concluded Festival de Cannes. There's always more to surf in the French New Wave.
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tpfkabi

Alright, 2 new Criterion Godard's, but no reviews?

I've seen Made In USA and the extras, but I'm no good as far as detailed reviews go.

The docs are making me want to watch Preminger and Ray - I'm not too versed on any of their films other than seeing some on TCM.
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MacGuffin

'Breathless' set for re-release
Rialto Pictures returns Godard classic to bigscreen
Source: Variety

Rialto Pictures is bringing Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" back to life Stateside in celebration of the pic's 50th anniversary this year.

The Gotham-based re-release specialist has acquired U.S. theatrical rights to the seminal French New Wave film and will bow a restored 35mm print at Hollywood's Chinese Theater next month.

The new print will make its American premiere as part of the inaugural TCM Classic Film Festival (April 22-25). The restored version was first unveiled at the Berlin Film Festival in February.

A commercial theatrical re-release of "Breathless" kicks off May 28 at New York's Film Forum, followed by a national rollout.

Along with "Breathless," Rialto also picked up theatrical rights to two 1963 Godard films, "Le petit soldat" and "Les Carabiniers." Deal was negotiated with Paris-based Pretty Pictures.

Written with Francois Truffaut, "Breathless" is Godard's feature debut and toplines Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.

"We've had some of our biggest hits with Godard's amazing, innovative movies of the '60s," said Rialto founder and co-prexy Bruce Goldstein. "But 'Breathless' is in a class by itself. It's not only one of the most important films of the last half-century, still inspiring new generations of moviemakers, but it's just as fun and audacious as it was 50 years ago."

The "Breathless" restoration is the film's first and was supervised by Beatrice Valbin at StudioCanal. English subtitles were revised by film historian Lenny Borger, who also is working on a translation of Godard's latest pic, "Socialisme."

Rialto has shepherded classic films by Federico Fellini, Jean Renoir, Jules Dassin, Vittorio De Sica, Luis Bunuel, Alain Resnais, Akira Kurosawa and Jean-Pierre Melville.

Among its other Godard titles are "Contempt," "Band of Outsiders" and "Masculine, Feminine."
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tpfkabi

Quote from: MacGuffin on March 08, 2010, 12:21:12 AM
Along with "Breathless," Rialto also picked up theatrical rights to two 1963 Godard films, "Le petit soldat" and "Les Carabiniers." Deal was negotiated with Paris-based Pretty Pictures.

So I guess we can expect Criterion versions of these movies after it plays theatrically for a while.
:yabbse-thumbup:

That has to make La Chinoise about the only 60's era Godard left off the top of my head.
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Gold Trumpet

Quote from: bigideas on March 08, 2010, 10:10:30 AM
So I guess we can expect Criterion versions of these movies after it plays theatrically for a while.

Yep. Usually about 8-9 months afterward, but expect one to be possibly come much later because Criterion wants to separate Godard out usually to make sure a Godard is released every year.

Quote from: bigideas on March 08, 2010, 10:10:30 AM
That has to make La Chinoise about the only 60's era Godard left off the top of my head.

There is still The Married Woman, A Film Like Any Other and Joy of Learning. I've actually heard good things about The Married Woman so I have always wanted to see it.

Captain of Industry

Off the topic of Godard, apologies, but continuing on the Criterion releases topic...I saw a Janus Films distributed print of Summer with Monika fucking two years ago.  Where's that sob?  Is it because they want to spread out their Bergman releases, like you're saying they spread their Godard releases?

SiliasRuby

Just saw 'alphaville' for the first time and really loved it. Have to watch it multiple times I believe to really wrap my head around what godard was doing and what godard was trying to achieve but its pretty brilliant.
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Sleepless

Watch Two In The Wave last night, and it was an enjoyable doc. The majority of the film just washed over me, and I felt quite giddy at the excitement surrounding the start of the Nouvelle Vague - almost like I was discovering Godard and Truffaut's early films for the very first time all over again. The central concept of the film is to explore Godard and Truffaut's friendship and similarities despite their obvious differences. The final third-half of the film got a bit lackluster as they started pulling clips without any real meaty context. And by the time it bot into Tout Va Bien and Godard's death of cinema, it felt like it needed a whole new film to explore that time in his career.
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tpfkabi

I recently watched Made in USA again.
ahhh...karina...and faithfull.

Rialto still seems to not be showing "Le petit soldat" or "Les Carabiniers."

There were no new Godard releases in 2010 (not counting Blu re-releases), right? Or am I blanking out?
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Sleepless

He held on. The dolphin and all the rest of its pod turned and swam out to sea, and still he held on. This is it, he thought. Then he remembered that they were air-breathers too. It was going to be all right.