Are ANY of Godard's more recent films available?
10-02-06, 03:21 PM
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Are ANY of Godard's more recent films available?
As Region 1 editions, anyway?
There's a new DVD of 'Je Vous Salue, Marie' (Hail Mary) supposedly out soon (which I'll pick up just as an excuse to toss my old laserdisc) but that's more than 20 years old.
Criterion have handled a healthy amount of his 60s/early 70s stuff but the guy's still making movies that I can't seem to watch in my own home. There's actually a fair number of his recent films I haven't even seen at festivals or in theatres.
In a world where 'Jackass Number Two' rules at the box office and Woody Allen's later films are cheaply available, we need pretentious French subtitled politico-art now more than ever.
Anybody looking at my DVD collection would assume that I didn't like any of Godard's later work. And that just ain't right.
There's a new DVD of 'Je Vous Salue, Marie' (Hail Mary) supposedly out soon (which I'll pick up just as an excuse to toss my old laserdisc) but that's more than 20 years old.
Criterion have handled a healthy amount of his 60s/early 70s stuff but the guy's still making movies that I can't seem to watch in my own home. There's actually a fair number of his recent films I haven't even seen at festivals or in theatres.
In a world where 'Jackass Number Two' rules at the box office and Woody Allen's later films are cheaply available, we need pretentious French subtitled politico-art now more than ever.
Anybody looking at my DVD collection would assume that I didn't like any of Godard's later work. And that just ain't right.
10-02-06, 03:44 PM
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His recent NOTRE MUSIQUE has been released in Region 1 on Wellspring.
(I post this for informational purposes only, and not as a recommendation. I eagerly went to see this when it was shown at the New York Film Festival, and suffered through one of the most tedious, self-indulgent and rambling movies I've ever seen.)
(I post this for informational purposes only, and not as a recommendation. I eagerly went to see this when it was shown at the New York Film Festival, and suffered through one of the most tedious, self-indulgent and rambling movies I've ever seen.)
