“Good thing Godard’s outlived the Nouvelle vague by a good 47 years now…
Seriously…
Anyone that would claim the maker of Histoire(s) du cinema, JLG/JLG – auto portrait de decembre, Numero deux, Film Socialisme, et. al. is a filmmaker just for youth knows so little about film as to be dismissed from all conversations therein."
No matter how many times this is said people will continue to misrepresent Godard without having seen his films from every decade. Always always always going on about the New Wave. That’s not 50% of the man.
1. Robert Bresson – The Devil Probably, Mouchette, A Man Escaped
2. Jean-Luc Godard – Masculin Féminin, Hélas Pour Moi, JLG/JLG – Autoportrait de Décembre
It’s hard to rank Godard’s films by their importance to me. I take all of it as one, fleshing it out each time I see a new one.
After that, I’ve only got some directors I really like without having seen many of their films.
Andrei Tarkovsky – Andrei Rublyov, Solaris
Eric Rohmer – The Six Moral Tales, particularly La Collectionneuse and Claire’s Knee (Béatrice Romand!)
Jacques Tati – M. Hulot’s Holiday, Mon Oncle. Saw Playtime on TV… so it doesn’t count.
David Lynch – Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr. and Twin Peaks if I can count it. Maybe my first real ‘Favorite Director’.
It doesn’t matter that watching Apocalypse Now on a phone is a horribly bastardized experience, it’s one extra bullet point that helps sell the phone. People call it freedom to indulge in every meaningless distraction. A cacophony. No silence. Silence makes you think, but we’ve been trained to avoid anything slightly _un_entertaining, so we sweep our problems under a rug by filling the silence with all the wonderful technology that we consider progressive even though very few people know how to progress inside with it. All for the economy, who cares about human beings.
Jazzaloha, your topics are always so friggin’ depressing.
“Naked’s landlord is a caricatured embodiment of the borderline-psychopathic exploitative individualist mindset that Thatcherism supposedly encouraged (cf., on the other side of the Atlantic, American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman).” Criterion Forum
I’m always disappointed when a character’s manias are explained away with a bad childhood. As if it’s a weapon against Johnny. Slit your eyes, nod condescendingly, pat his shoulder and say “I see what it is.” Can someone end up like him without a closet full of skeletons?
Did Sandra completely take anybody else outta the movie at the end? After Johnny’s trip through hell we get her? I found quite a bit of the film and Johnny’s cruelty over the top as well. The thing that got me the most was so simple: Johnny insults Brian and his little cottage. After their night in the “space” together, Johnny seemed almost friendly. Brian is so pathetically sad and he’s ripped apart in two seconds. That was mean. Also the girl who kicks him out. Sad from the beginning.
I don’t have a phone either, out of my own (probably irrational) hatred of all things… like that. I know that obviously these gadgets and the internet can be incredibly useful (I owe my consciousness to the internet) but when I see that most people use them out of a need to own everything new, and that they only use them as pointless distraction, my irritation keeps me away. I (1 little boy) don’t wanna feed The Machine. I was gung-ho for all this stuff only a few years ago, a techie and all that, but now after removing all of it (finding silence) I’m angry that I was up to my eyeballs in it my whole life (blind). But since it’s all immaterial, they’re not gonna put warnings on any packages. We’ve become so short-sighted that something needs to physically harm us for us to realise that it’s bad. “If people are asleep a loud noise will wake them up”-JLG. A catastrophe will bring people out of it. This loss of silence is too gradual for anyone to notice. We’re just plain fucked.
Also… We’re always trying to take everything, gratify every immediate desire because the culture is selling us a false sense of freedom, so we end up with a cacaphony. Metaphor time: None of these sounds can clearly be heard, it’s a mess. But when you get to silence, every single individual sound that breaks it is perfectly clear. Bresson taught me that, in one day everything was radically different, more clear. Get to zero so you can break it.
Question: Why fewer female cinephiles? On the internet I can understand why, but in real life. I started at 13 with a morbid interest in horror films that had nothing to do with gender. It’s not like I started because I saw more male cinephiles and directors and didn’t feel discouraged. I knew nothing. What keeps females away from it? How did all of you get interested in films?
Ah, Bresson. Nothing else made sense afterward. I didn’t realise I had had any specific preferences before. Was studying Godard and then Tarkovsky, wondering who was ‘right’. Then they pointed me to Bresson and I blind bought Mouchette and Pickpocket on a whim when I realised I couldn’t afford the Bergman Faith Trilogy, the Cassavetes 5 Films set, or the Herzog/Kinski set. Ah! I still don’t own them and I’ve become less interested in everybody else. To me, no one is anywhere near Bresson; he questioned everything, and exposed everything in cinema. My criticisms are small: I don’t like his ‘sound dissolves’, or when someone sobs into their hands or has to act.
It wasn’t Antonioni who created a ‘grammar’. Bresson’s whole style was a filmmaking machine like Life: A User’s Manual was a story creating machine. It’s so tightly knit, nothing compares! Who else had such a complexly perfect style? Anyone can break the rules but to break each rule and make more sense than the rules?
@Oxymoron
Hey now! You just learned a valuable piece of grammatical information. I wish I was as lucky; that someone would rip apart my grammar so I could get better. I’m calling for more grammar nazis!
@Wu Yong
Those ain’t aesthetics. How would your visual style be? What would everyone’s films look like? Long takes? Montage? Batshit crazy?
I’m with The Dude and JC. It’s impossible to live without downtime, diversion, but you gotta avoid it as much as possible, and it’s an unnecessary convention in art. A fidimplictary furbelow. I don’t mind it obviously, but you gotta work at art! I don’t know. What’s entertainment?! Everyone’s definition is different.
Is Godard more of a critic's filmmaker than a filmmaker's filmmaker? about 1 year ago
“Good thing Godard’s outlived the Nouvelle vague by a good 47 years now…
Seriously…
Anyone that would claim the maker of Histoire(s) du cinema, JLG/JLG – auto portrait de decembre, Numero deux, Film Socialisme, et. al. is a filmmaker just for youth knows so little about film as to be dismissed from all conversations therein."
No matter how many times this is said people will continue to misrepresent Godard without having seen his films from every decade. Always always always going on about the New Wave. That’s not 50% of the man.
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GUESS THE FILM about 1 year ago
Grey Gardens, or Gates of Heaven.
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GUESS THE FILM about 1 year ago
Hoo hoo!
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!
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Critical 20: FINAL THREAD: Lancelot du Lac (Bresson) about 1 year ago
What the heck is this? How many votes were there? Were the other rounds much more active? Obviously with less reviews it’ll be less active, but…
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GUESS THE FILM about 1 year ago
Here’s another:
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!
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Critical 20: FINAL THREAD: Lancelot du Lac (Bresson) about 1 year ago
Congratulations WBA
What does he win?
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Critical 20: FINAL THREAD: Lancelot du Lac (Bresson) about 1 year ago
He or she… I’m just wondering: should I or should I not cut and paste myself into the picture over the woman…?
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GUESS THE FILM about 1 year ago
Use the large link with exclamation points on the ends.
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OT: What are you reading? about 1 year ago
Got it yesterday and read the first two ‘years’. My anxieties are the exact same as these two guys.
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Criterion Coming Soon and Discussion Redux about 1 year ago
Ten bucks says they announce new titles today. It’s always the friday after the tenth I’m tellin’ ya.
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Criterion Coming Soon and Discussion Redux about 1 year ago
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Criterion Coming Soon and Discussion Redux about 1 year ago
It’s not a film. I looked up ‘stock market crash suicide’ and found it…
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GREAT MUBI CULTURAL POLL: FAVOURITE BOOKS about 1 year ago
I’m only about 300 pages into Infinite Jest and it usually bothers me when someone else passes judgement so early on a book… but… you can’t stop me…
Infinite Jest – Wallace
Putting me at 25. The 5 or 6 pages on the failure of videophones were enough.
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Your 5 Favourite Directors about 1 year ago
1. Robert Bresson – The Devil Probably, Mouchette, A Man Escaped
2. Jean-Luc Godard – Masculin Féminin, Hélas Pour Moi, JLG/JLG – Autoportrait de Décembre
It’s hard to rank Godard’s films by their importance to me. I take all of it as one, fleshing it out each time I see a new one.
After that, I’ve only got some directors I really like without having seen many of their films.
Andrei Tarkovsky – Andrei Rublyov, Solaris
Eric Rohmer – The Six Moral Tales, particularly La Collectionneuse and Claire’s Knee (Béatrice Romand!)
Jacques Tati – M. Hulot’s Holiday, Mon Oncle. Saw Playtime on TV… so it doesn’t count.
David Lynch – Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr. and Twin Peaks if I can count it. Maybe my first real ‘Favorite Director’.
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GREAT MUBI CULTURAL POLL: FAVOURITE BOOKS about 1 year ago
On The Silver Globe and the other two books, still haven’t been translated into english right? Did you read it in Polish? French?
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Is the Loss of Silence and Stillness a Threat to Movies and Art? about 1 year ago
Volupte Noir has it.
It doesn’t matter that watching Apocalypse Now on a phone is a horribly bastardized experience, it’s one extra bullet point that helps sell the phone. People call it freedom to indulge in every meaningless distraction. A cacophony. No silence. Silence makes you think, but we’ve been trained to avoid anything slightly _un_entertaining, so we sweep our problems under a rug by filling the silence with all the wonderful technology that we consider progressive even though very few people know how to progress inside with it. All for the economy, who cares about human beings.
Jazzaloha, your topics are always so friggin’ depressing.
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What's this all About!? about 1 year ago
“Naked’s landlord is a caricatured embodiment of the borderline-psychopathic exploitative individualist mindset that Thatcherism supposedly encouraged (cf., on the other side of the Atlantic, American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman).” Criterion Forum
I’m always disappointed when a character’s manias are explained away with a bad childhood. As if it’s a weapon against Johnny. Slit your eyes, nod condescendingly, pat his shoulder and say “I see what it is.” Can someone end up like him without a closet full of skeletons?
Did Sandra completely take anybody else outta the movie at the end? After Johnny’s trip through hell we get her? I found quite a bit of the film and Johnny’s cruelty over the top as well. The thing that got me the most was so simple: Johnny insults Brian and his little cottage. After their night in the “space” together, Johnny seemed almost friendly. Brian is so pathetically sad and he’s ripped apart in two seconds. That was mean. Also the girl who kicks him out. Sad from the beginning.
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Is the Loss of Silence and Stillness a Threat to Movies and Art? about 1 year ago
I don’t have a phone either, out of my own (probably irrational) hatred of all things… like that. I know that obviously these gadgets and the internet can be incredibly useful (I owe my consciousness to the internet) but when I see that most people use them out of a need to own everything new, and that they only use them as pointless distraction, my irritation keeps me away. I (1 little boy) don’t wanna feed The Machine. I was gung-ho for all this stuff only a few years ago, a techie and all that, but now after removing all of it (finding silence) I’m angry that I was up to my eyeballs in it my whole life (blind). But since it’s all immaterial, they’re not gonna put warnings on any packages. We’ve become so short-sighted that something needs to physically harm us for us to realise that it’s bad. “If people are asleep a loud noise will wake them up”-JLG. A catastrophe will bring people out of it. This loss of silence is too gradual for anyone to notice. We’re just plain fucked.
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Is the Loss of Silence and Stillness a Threat to Movies and Art? about 1 year ago
Also… We’re always trying to take everything, gratify every immediate desire because the culture is selling us a false sense of freedom, so we end up with a cacaphony. Metaphor time: None of these sounds can clearly be heard, it’s a mess. But when you get to silence, every single individual sound that breaks it is perfectly clear. Bresson taught me that, in one day everything was radically different, more clear. Get to zero so you can break it.
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FILMS IMPROVED BY THE AIRLINE VERSION? about 1 year ago
I’ve never been on a plane before, but sometimes I watch Airplane! wearing an aviator’s cap.
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Final scene, making-of about 1 year ago
Miniatures
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OT: What are you reading? about 1 year ago
Rereading. Can hardly get books so I reread more than I read.
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Celebrating the Female Presence on Mubi about 1 year ago
Question: Why fewer female cinephiles? On the internet I can understand why, but in real life. I started at 13 with a morbid interest in horror films that had nothing to do with gender. It’s not like I started because I saw more male cinephiles and directors and didn’t feel discouraged. I knew nothing. What keeps females away from it? How did all of you get interested in films?
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Celebrating the Female Presence on Mubi about 1 year ago
Did anyone mention that schizophrenic girl? She’s my favorite.
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Celebrating the Female Presence on Mubi about 1 year ago
Or perhaps her account deleted her…
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Godard to shoot next film in 3D. Time to boil a shoe. about 1 year ago
Is it gonna be a CGI dog? Why hasn’t he screwed around with CGI?
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Finding a Director Who’s Style & Aesthetics Match Your Own about 1 year ago
Ah, Bresson. Nothing else made sense afterward. I didn’t realise I had had any specific preferences before. Was studying Godard and then Tarkovsky, wondering who was ‘right’. Then they pointed me to Bresson and I blind bought Mouchette and Pickpocket on a whim when I realised I couldn’t afford the Bergman Faith Trilogy, the Cassavetes 5 Films set, or the Herzog/Kinski set. Ah! I still don’t own them and I’ve become less interested in everybody else. To me, no one is anywhere near Bresson; he questioned everything, and exposed everything in cinema. My criticisms are small: I don’t like his ‘sound dissolves’, or when someone sobs into their hands or has to act.
It wasn’t Antonioni who created a ‘grammar’. Bresson’s whole style was a filmmaking machine like Life: A User’s Manual was a story creating machine. It’s so tightly knit, nothing compares! Who else had such a complexly perfect style? Anyone can break the rules but to break each rule and make more sense than the rules?
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Godard to shoot next film in 3D. Time to boil a shoe. about 1 year ago
Does nobody wonder why intelligent critics and filmmakers respect him?
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Finding a Director Who’s Style & Aesthetics Match Your Own about 1 year ago
@Oxymoron
Hey now! You just learned a valuable piece of grammatical information. I wish I was as lucky; that someone would rip apart my grammar so I could get better. I’m calling for more grammar nazis!
@Wu Yong
Those ain’t aesthetics. How would your visual style be? What would everyone’s films look like? Long takes? Montage? Batshit crazy?
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Finding a Director Who’s Style & Aesthetics Match Your Own about 1 year ago
I’m with The Dude and JC. It’s impossible to live without downtime, diversion, but you gotta avoid it as much as possible, and it’s an unnecessary convention in art. A fidimplictary furbelow. I don’t mind it obviously, but you gotta work at art! I don’t know. What’s entertainment?! Everyone’s definition is different.
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