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domino harvey wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2019 11:25 pm It’s driving me nuts because I can’t remember his name, but I’m sure someone will jump in with it: Godard also enjoyed that Baltimore indie director who made a movie in the late 80s consisting entirely of long scenes unfolding in uninterrupted takes. Godard utilizes clips from the segment filmed in the Inner Harbor in one of his films, and as I recall he also praised the film at whatever film festival he saw it at

AskewWaters wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2019 10:41 pm It's safe to assume Godard was a fan of Woody Allen as well, given the cameo he casted Woody in; playing Mr. Alien, safety-pinning strips of film together, and then leaping into a pile of them in Godard's King Lear.

domino harvey wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2019 11:41 pm Nope. I found it: Rob Tregenza's Talking to Strangers. Here are Godard's thoughts

domino harvey wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2019 11:44 pm Yeah, it was my assumption that he was a Baltimorean based on the film that was giving me trouble in searching for him!

Currently reading Richard Brody's Everything is Cinema, and I've been pleasantly surprised to find in the book references to Godard's thoughts on some contemporary filmmakers. He's said to have loved works by Carax, Gallo, and Guiraudie, among others. Now, I'm a big fan of Godard's early critical work, and Godard on Godard is a treasure to me, but it naturally only goes through the late '60s... I'm curious to see which directors and films Godard has admired in subsequent years. (Obviously many of his films themselves could be seen as lengthy works of film criticism, but I'm thinking primarily of things he's said in interviews or conversations.) I think his adoration of Kiarostami is pretty well-known at this point, but I've seen sources saying he's also praised Coppola, De Palma, Scorsese, Warhol, Cassavetes, Emshwiller, Brakhage, Fassbinder, and even Korine.

My dear Maurice, your film is astonishing, totally astonishing; far beyond the cinematographic horizon covered up until now by our wretched gaze. Your eye is a great heart that sends the camera hurtling among girls, boys, spaces, moments in time, and colors, like childish tantrums. The ensemble is miraculous; the details, sparks of light within this miracle; we see the big sky fall and rise from this poor and simple earth. All of my thanks, to you and yours, for this success – warm, incomparable, quivering

Glowingwabbit wrote: Mon Aug 05, 2019 12:01 amAccording to Jonathan Rosenbaum, Godard later produced (uncredited) Tregenza's third feature Inside/Out

Rayon Vert wrote: Mon Aug 05, 2019 9:59 pm Godard liked The Brown Bunny (no surprise), I think that was in the Brody book, and it's mentioned in the Wiki article on the film.

JSC wrote: Mon Aug 05, 2019 9:49 pm If I'm remembering this correctly, I think the Guardian did an interview with Godard about ten years ago. At the time he didn't exactly have flattering things to say about Quentin Tarantino or Michael Moore.

Oedipax wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2019 10:24 pm Purely anecdotal, but a few years back I stayed in an Airbnb in Paris where one of the hosts had been involved in film promotion and distribution in France in the 90s for the filmmaker Darezhan Omirbaev (sometimes written Omirbayev). She mentioned that one of her most prized possessions was a personal check written to her and signed by Godard for some funds to aid with one of Omirbaev's films - though unfortunately I don't recall which one. According to her, JLG was a big Omirbaev fan and helped them a number of times.

I did end up watching Kaïrat on her suggestion and enjoyed it quite a bit.

There's a quote attributed to Godard in several articles on Omirbaev across Google, but I couldn't find a direct source even when searching for the phrase in French. The quote is "l'un des cinéastes les plus étonnants qui travaillent aujourd'hui," where the adjective is translated differently in various sources as "one of the most [astonishing/surprising/outstanding] filmmakers working today."

dda1996a wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2019 3:59 am I like the casualness with which you wrote about simply asking Rosenbaum vis a vis Godard... Are you out connection to him? (I love his book on Godard)

NWRdr4 wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:47 pm

dda1996a wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2019 3:59 am I like the casualness with which you wrote about simply asking Rosenbaum vis a vis Godard... Are you out connection to him? (I love his book on Godard)

Are you thinking of Richard Brody's book? Anyway, I don't know Rosenbaum personally—I'm just not shy about contacting intellectuals and academics with questions pertaining to their expertise when they offer their emails to the public!

NWRdr4 wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2019 1:15 am Does anyone know other modern directors or works Godard has praised over the years? I'm especially curious: has he ever had anything positive to say about Paul Schrader's work? He and Schrader have reportedly met at least once...

quim_font wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2019 9:42 pm

NWRdr4 wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2019 1:15 am Does anyone know other modern directors or works Godard has praised over the years? I'm especially curious: has he ever had anything positive to say about Paul Schrader's work? He and Schrader have reportedly met at least once...

Here he is on Cassavetes (Detective is dedicated to him as well): "John Cassavetes, who was more or less my age - now he was a great director. I can't imagine myself as his equal in cinema. For me he represents a certain cinema that's way up above." (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/f ... e.features)

On Jon Jost: ''Unlike almost all American directors,'' Godard has said, ''Jon Jost is not a traitor to the movies. He makes them move.''

On Fassbinder: "Then there was Fassbinder, who I feel stood alone. Like Anthaeus, who was big and strong, and tried it in his own patch, in his own garden…. And when Fassbinder died, the elders pretty much did, too, Rossellini, Hitchcock. … But they died “in their art,” if you will." (https://www.diagonalthoughts.com/?p=1978)

He also has the great line in Histoires, that goes something like, "Fassbinder, the great, who died on a overdose of creative obligations."

On Brakhage: "Not at all. We were for Hitchcock, but we were also for Shirley Clarke or John Cassavetes or Ed Emshwiller. When I read recently that an American critic wrote that Hélas pour moi looked like a Stan Brakhage picture, I was very pleased." (https://www.filmcomment.com/article/jea ... -pour-moi/)

NWRdr4 wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2019 2:51 pm
Thanks so much for this! I didn’t know about Godard liking Jon Jost!

Detective is a funny case because it’s also dedicated to Clint Eastwood—leading many to assume Godard likes his films. However, the only explicit reference I can find Godard making to Eastwood was during his 1978 lectures at Concordia University where he expressed his disdain for Eastwood’s work and called him “a complete idiot” (the translated lectures can be bought here). Either a lot changed between 1978 and 1985, or Godard’s dedication to Eastwood was decidedly more ambivalent or abstract than an outright endorsement.

If I remember correctly (I don’t have a copy of the lectures handy), Godard also said in 1978 that he didn’t like Altman’s films. Interestingly, Jacques Rivette more recently said he loved both directors.

accatone wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2019 3:20 pm Eastwood and Godard
https://m.ina.fr/video/CPB8505083404/cl ... video.html

accatone wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2019 3:20 pm Eastwood and Godard
https://m.ina.fr/video/CPB8505083404/cl ... video.html

quim_font wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2019 6:19 pm This seems to implying they had a project in gestation together?