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Reply #135 on: November 04, 2004, 11:09:34 PM
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I'm very excited that I'll be able to see a good print of Alphaville on the big screen...

:!:

I adore Alphaville!

I've been debating on whether or not I should just go ahead and buy that.
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Reply #136 on: November 05, 2004, 12:17:43 AM
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I'm very excited that I'll be able to see a good print of Alphaville on the big screen...

:!:

I adore Alphaville!

I've been debating on whether or not I should just go ahead and buy that.


Buy it.

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Reply #137 on: November 05, 2004, 07:19:24 AM
Alphaville is actually the only Godard I've really disliked. I think you'll be more impressed if they screen Band of Outsiders, Ghostboy.

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Reply #138 on: November 05, 2004, 07:29:41 AM
Bah!

Alphaville's one of his very, very best pre-'68 films.
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Reply #139 on: November 05, 2004, 09:37:18 AM
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Alphaville is actually the only Godard I've really disliked. I think you'll be more impressed if they screen Band of Outsiders, Ghostboy.


i hated it upon first viewing too...but i saw the criterion for about 8 dollars in a local video store (excellent condition) and figured 'what the hell' and upon two subsequent viewings, i absolutely love it.
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Reply #140 on: November 05, 2004, 09:49:22 AM
For me it was the first Godard that didn't resonate some way or another. What else I've seen of his have always left strong impressions on first viewings, then gotten better for each one. Perhaps eward's right and a second and third viewing is fitting, but that'll have to wait, as it's not long since I saw it, and would want to wash away as much of my memory of it as I can before my second go.

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Reply #141 on: November 05, 2004, 10:02:58 AM
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overindulgent

Better to be overindulgent than grossly untalented.


good one
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Reply #142 on: November 05, 2004, 10:04:51 AM
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Alphaville is actually the only Godard I've really disliked. I think you'll be more impressed if they screen Band of Outsiders, Ghostboy.


i think alphaville is one of the few godard films i really like
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Reply #143 on: November 05, 2004, 05:47:29 PM
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Alphaville is actually the only Godard I've really disliked. I think you'll be more impressed if they screen Band of Outsiders, Ghostboy.


Well, I've seen both of them, although Alphaville was so long ago, and I was so young in my cineaste-ness (I think I was 15 and prior to that had only seen Breathless) that I don't trust my reaction. I read the screenplay, too, actually. All thanks to Tarantino, of course.

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Reply #144 on: November 05, 2004, 07:31:25 PM
do you think they will screen one of these in the next few weeks, or are we talking about early next year?

i'm tempted to come to Dallas and see I Heart Huckabees and Undertow. Godard on the big screen would be a big time motivation!
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Reply #145 on: November 21, 2004, 03:06:53 PM
new interview with godard for notre musique:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/movies/21darg.html
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Reply #146 on: November 21, 2004, 05:49:00 PM
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do you think they will screen one of these in the next few weeks, or are we talking about early next year?

i'm tempted to come to Dallas and see I Heart Huckabees and Undertow. Godard on the big screen would be a big time motivation!


Hmm, my apologies for missing this query. The answer is early next year. The Inwood is closed for renovations until Jan. 12.

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Reply #147 on: November 21, 2004, 09:17:46 PM
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new interview with godard...

It's a fine interview, if a little short. He can be such a jerk, but so effortlessly funny [and right] at the same time; I love it:

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Q. Are you still passionate about movies?

A. Yes, but it's difficult because one can't see many.

Q. Because they're not being made or you don't have the time?

A. Because generally they're all American films.

Q. I understand. I'm a movie critic.

A. Americans don't have critics. For me, there are only two, James Agee and Manny Farber. The rest are reviewers.

Q. O.K., I am a reviewer, that's fine...
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Reply #148 on: November 21, 2004, 09:53:50 PM
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do you think they will screen one of these in the next few weeks, or are we talking about early next year?

i'm tempted to come to Dallas and see I Heart Huckabees and Undertow. Godard on the big screen would be a big time motivation!


Hmm, my apologies for missing this query. The answer is early next year. The Inwood is closed for renovations until Jan. 12.


yeah i saw that in the last e-mail. i just ordered Alphaville Criterion and some others with the 20% discount at Deep Discount DVD. can't wait to see it!
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Reply #149 on: November 22, 2004, 11:33:17 PM
"Do you laugh at jealousy?"

"No, I don't even laugh at seasickness! I happen to regard jealousy as the seasickness of passion."

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