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Jean-Luc Godard has died
- neves 4y agoI have access to 6 streaming services. None of them have a Godard, one of the greatest movie makers of all times. Streaming is really f*ck#d.
- psteinweber 4y agoCheck out mubi.com for a more cineastic approach to streaming
- GFischer 4y agoI've seen plenty of ads for a "classics" streaming service, not what I'm interested in, but they seem to be out there.
- groar 4y agoIt is actually "Godard", not Goddard.
- coolandsmartrr 4y agoFixed.
- Majestic121 4y agoA more complete, and written in English, obituary : https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2022/09/13/jean-luc-godard-legendary-french-film-director-dies-aged-91_5996746_15.html https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2022/09/13/jean...
- dang 4y agoChanged from https://www.liberation.fr/culture/jean-luc-godard-est-mort-20220913_LLEGXZFQSFDC3FBJCP7AWXSYWI/ https://www.liberation.fr/culture/jean-luc-godard-est-mort-2.... Thanks!
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- CalRobert 4y agoI wish I could understand him more. My wife and I tried to watch Breathless and it was insufferable watching this complete jerk mope his way around. We didn't even manage to finish it. On top of that, Godard himself came off as rude in 2017's Visages Villages (Agnes Varda). Is there something of his I might appreciate more?
- lou1306 4y agoI've only seen Bande à Part, but found it charming.
- wazoox 4y agoTry Pierrot le fou, Contempt, Alphaville... However Breathless is (one of?) the easiest of Godard's movies. Notice that you're supposed to suffer to watch many of his movies. It's part of the experience, to prove that you're part of the intellectual elite that "gets it".
- kingkawn 4y agoHis films take apart the mannerisms of film and French society. anti-intellectual shots at him are only a lost opportunity to know a moving, meaningful artist
- wazoox 4y agoIn fact it's the opposite: I'm a staunch intellectual, snob Frenchman. I can't stand brain-damaged Hollywood entertainment (I'd rather stand 2 hours under the rain than watching any Avengers movie). The cultural gap may require time and effort to cross to be able to appreciate Godard (or Bergman, or Rohmer, ...) when you're into mass culture.
- eternalban 4y agoLOL, this reminded me of Gene Hackman's character in Night Moves on Rohmer: https://vimeo.com/8688973 https://vimeo.com/8688973
- moviewise 4y ago"I just talked about myself, and you, yourself. You should’ve talked about me, and me, about you." — Michel Poiccard, Breathless (1960) "The 1960 French crime drama film, Breathless, by Jean-Luc Godard has a very interesting idea about love. The protagonist, Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a car thief and crook, is unlikeable. He steals from helpless women as well as vulnerable men, and kills a police officer without remorse. He claims to be in love with an American, Patricia Franchini (Jean Seberg), but at one point he threatens to strangle her, and he disregards her wishes whether big or small. But he wants to be with her, and we believe him. Is this enough to be defined as love?" From: What Is Love? The True Definition According To The Movies https://moviewise.substack.com/p/what-is-love https://moviewise.substack.com/p/what-is-love
- batisteo 4y agoJe vais prendre deux fois des moules
- emotionaltrash 4y ago'weekend' is still one of my favourites movies all time.
- StillLrning123 4y agoSo many epic scenes in that movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BySdtZWDCwI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BySdtZWDCwI
- blfr 4y agoLe Mépris (Contempt) is by far my favourite movie, peak cinema. Absolutely stunning Mediterranean cinematography, beautiful coastal and indoor shots, a decent plot with Odysseus in the background, and certainly not hurt by Brigitte Bardot's onscreen presence. Overall unbeatable aesthetics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF0Ju0ONwGU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF0Ju0ONwGU Watching it is like taking a short vacation. Phenomenal.
- eternalban 4y agoHm, I'll be honest in the spirit of JLG's unabashed expressions of desire for the opposite sex. I reached for it because of Brigitte Bardot, but it is a solid film. My absolute favorite JLG is "JLG/JLG". https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110173/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110173/ Apparently no torrents for this, too bad. Here is a taste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1AK-G6UF4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1AK-G6UF4 [p.s. RIP, Jean-Luc.]
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago> Apparently no torrents for this I found a few
- nicoco 4y ago> Apparently no torrents for this, too bad I guess someone has not heard about our lord and savior, https://prowlarr.com/ https://prowlarr.com/ It aggregates search results from various torrent search engine. You choose which search engines you want. The list is impressive and it supports private trackers too.
- Renaud 4y agoAnd that score by Delarue, so beautifully haunting. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3W86RN_TsE4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3W86RN_TsE4
- dumb1224 4y ago> Absolutely stunning Mediterranean cinematography, beautiful coastal and indoor shots, a decent plot with.... I had the same feeling when watching Pierrot le Fou (the only Jean-Luc Godard film I watched, possibly new wave...). It was introduced by a french colleague of mine, during a very small international film festival in Dublin early 2000. I wasn't into any art house movies but it made such an impression on me that I always had a nice (and saturated colourful) memory of the film.
- drexlspivey 4y agoIt is hard to overstate how much Godard changed cinema, even in America. If you don’t believe me check for yourself. Open the best picture nominees between 55’-65’ and watch their trailers. Films like Marty/On the waterfront/12 angry men/To kill a mockingbird/The Caine Mutiny/Sweet smell of success is what movies were like in the late 50s. The acting/writing was pompous, actors talked like reciting Shakespear. The movies were about heros of impeccable character doing heroic things and there always was a happy ending. Movie shots followed strict guidelines and the creative head of the movie was the producer while the director was akin to a contractor, someone hired to film the scenes. Starting in the mid 60s there was a radical shift, topping the nominations we have films like Five Easy Pieces, The French Connection, The Godfather, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Deer Hunter, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver etc. Actors would act and behave like normal everyday people facing everyday problems. The new Archetype is the Anti-Hero, someone with flaws/vices in their character, someone that viewers can relate to. We see the rise of the director as the auteur, the creative master of a film. Every known filmaking rule is being tested to it’s limits and broken by young experimenting directors. The catalyst for this change was the French New Wave, a group of young filmmakers tired of the old style of cinema wanting to do films about their own life and experiences. The poster boy for the New Wave was Jean-Luc Godard starting this revolution with his 1960 film Breathless.
- wellthisisgreat 4y agoCahieurs du Cinema crew were famously obsessed with film noir and american directors who have been pushing doom and gloom ever since the depression.
- paganel 4y agoFor what it’s worth they also loved Lubitsch, so it was not all doom and gloom for them.
- kome 4y agoItalian Neo-realism predates French New Wave.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y agoWhen I first saw the headline, my mind immediately read it as “Jean-Luc Picard” has died” and I was about to say something nice about the actor who plays him.
- gverrilla 4y agoThe poster-boy for commodity fetishism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_fetishism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_fetishism
- m_st 4y agoI recommend you to also watch Opération Béton - a documentary about the construction of the Grande Dixence concrete dam by JLG preceding his film work and a testimony.
- rurban 4y agoAlan Tanner also died just yesterday, and I rate him much higher than Godard. I'll only see Revolutionary Maoist Godard obituaries I assume, not any Tanner's. Not even a movie yesterday. They lived very close, Geneva and Grenoble.
- rurban 4y agoThe obituary did miss the most important part. Why the hell did he commit career suicide, by becoming a revolutionary Maoist, had to leave to Paris, and only made horrible bad movies after that. The answer is simply a pretty blonde aristocrat, Anne Wiazemsky, who drove him into radicalism. Cannes recently had a bad movie "Redoubtable" about that. https://freebeacon.com/culture/godard-mon-amour-review/ https://freebeacon.com/culture/godard-mon-amour-review/ He was extremely talented, until Le Chinoise and The Weekend.
- WFHRenaissance 4y agoIt's sad, but I assumed he was already dead.
- zwaps 4y agoMaybe HN can help: Years ago I watched a French movie, I think black and white, involving a young guy living in Paris. I don't remember much: Scenes where he jumped the iconic Parisian metro entrances without a ticket, and also a bourgie party with an American astronaut (?) staring at the moon? Maybe New-Wave, maybe not. I always wanted to find it again.
- bravo22 4y agoMaybe it was Masculin Féminin by Godard?
- js2 4y agoTry https://old.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/ https://old.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/ if HN doesn't come through for you.
- jeanl 4y agoI think you're talking about "Boy meets girl" by Leos Carax. I do remember the scene when the hero jumps the metro still by somersaulting over it... (the somersault is in the trailer https://youtu.be/uA-jdQIWGKA?t=88 https://youtu.be/uA-jdQIWGKA?t=88)
- zwaps 4y agoThat’s it, many thanks!
- yewenjie 4y agoGodard changed my life. I still can't express how exactly though, but watching Pierrot le Fou literally left a serious deep impact to me when I was adolescent. I am deeply thankful that he existed in this world.
- skywal_l 4y agoAn interesting take from The New Yorkers' movie critic Richard Brody from twenty years ago: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/profiles/2000/11/20/exile-paradise https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/profiles/2000/11/20/exile...
- alec_irl 4y agoHard to overstate Godard's importance to the film world, both as a critic and a filmmaker. As a critic with Cahiers du Cinema he and others championed many forgotten Hollywood films and established one of the first recognizable 'canons' of film -- one of the beginning points of film history as a subject. And unlike his predecessor and colleague Bazin, Godard went beyond theory to actually create films that embodied the radical new ideas about film that the Cahiers crowd promoted. I've seen people in the thread mentioning Italian Neorealism, and some of the great Hollywood films of the 50s, all fantastic examples of forward-thinking film art. But Godard and his contemporaries' contributions were about synthesizing earlier developments with a pop-art bent in a way that destroyed established boundaries of the medium and paved the way for explosions of film creativity on the continent and beyond. His genius was finding a middle ground between directors like Hawks and Rosselini, or Ford and Renoir, and using that space to create indelible masterpieces. RIP JLG
- lm28469 4y agoWeird that it doesn't seem to mentioned he died by assisted suicide, right when France is starting to talk about legalising assisted suicides
- conductor 4y ago"Life may be sad, but it's always beautiful." -- From "Pierrot le Fou", 1965
- zeruch 4y agoI remember sitting in a hotel room in SF with my girlfriend at the time and her waxing about Godard, whom I knew little about. She was right about how influential and brilliant he was.
- avereveard 4y agoI'll never forget his leading role on the USS Entergrose
- geocrasher 4y agoAm I the only one that read this as "Jean-Luc Picard has died" and then went into a minor panic for just a split second? Yeah. Me either.
- a_d 4y agoTarantino mentioned Godard as an influence at the beginning of the Reservoir Dogs script (Here he is talking about it: https://youtu.be/F4DkfxEv7ZU https://youtu.be/F4DkfxEv7ZU). He says that the seminal moment when he recognized his key aesthetic as a director, was when he read Pauline Kael's review of a Godard film (A band apart), where Kael says in her review: "It was as if a bunch of movie mad young frenchmen had taken up a banal American crime novel and translated the poetry that they had read between the lines". Tarantino says that when he read that he knew that this was his aesthetic -- this is what he wanted to do as a director. Tarantino called his production company "A Band Apart" (in my opinion) for that reason. (Tarantino's comment: https://youtu.be/vb7oUEVjFjo https://youtu.be/vb7oUEVjFjo)
- rodgerd 4y agoIt's funny, because after I watched _Breathless_ for the first time I was struck by how modern it seemed - and how little directors like Tarantino have added in the intervening years; normally when going back to the early works of pioneers, one can see why they were important and meaningful, but they age in light of all that's been built on them.
- jessaustin 4y ago...the ogre Henri Langlois... "Ogre"? In the context of European film, this designation could indicate a fairly terrible person. I can't find anything negative about Langlois other than that he had a disagreement with his bosses, which seems forgivable. What am I missing?
- 1letterunixname 4y agoI'm not against art films, but when there's an obsession over theme, technique, or personality, I'm probably out. Good art is scandalous and daring without needing any provenance or context. The Banksyism is: "comfort to the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." What matters to the general audience is what is on their plate, not the difficulty in or constraints on making the sausage. If someone wants to go the direction of say Spike Lee, then that's a deliberate choice to put art above chasing dollars, risking becoming the archetype of the starving artist and possibly their wide-appeal legacy. They're neither good nor bad, but different roads needing different driving styles.