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It's not really fair to compare this to any actual Lear adaptation, considering Godard famously only adapted the first and last three pages of the play

domino harvey wrote:It's not really fair to compare this to any actual Lear adaptation, considering Godard famously only adapted the first and last three pages of the play

dda1996a wrote:I really disliked Godard's Lear, but then I only saw Breathless and Vivre Sa Vie beforehand. Does knowledge and familiarity with his earlier work make his difficult 80s work more palpable?

I most likely would have disliked it too, like a lot of Godard's output, if I hadn't seen it in the context of carefully going through his oeuvre with several books in hand. Makes all the difference. I'm sure that's true to varying degrees for a lot of film directors, but never more so this one.

That is one sad melange of poorly juxtaposed typefaces. The title logotype looks better suited to an '80s hair metal band's album cover.
Admittedly, I've not yet seen the film. Could the heavy metal style font be intentional?

Rayon Vert wrote: if I hadn't seen it in the context of carefully going through his oeuvre with several books in hand.

To get the fullest possible appreciation, book reading is definetly essential. But one can get by just fine without that, as long as more than a few viewings are allowed. It's just that Lear is probably not the best intro for this period.

dda1996a wrote:I really disliked Godard's Lear, but then I only saw Breathless and Vivre Sa Vie beforehand. Does knowledge and familiarity with his earlier work make his difficult 80s work more palpable?

Only in the sense of knowing ahead of time that whatever detectable spikiness in his sixties work is turned up way past eleven later on.

I'd go with any one of these first before jumping in elsewhere in this part of his career: Detective, First Name Carmen, Passion, Detective, Oh Woe Is Me, Hail Mary, Notre Musique, Forever Mozart, In Praise of Love.

xoconostle wrote:Admittedly, I've not yet seen the film. Could the heavy metal style font be intentional?

It doesn't reflect the film. It's as disconnected as the tag line beneath it. But you've got the right idea. It does reflect the time period. Dokken rules!*

*Given that the film came out in '87, a few years after Dokken's brief heyday, Whitesnake may be the better example.

xoconostle wrote:

That is one sad melange of poorly juxtaposed typefaces. The title logotype looks better suited to an '80s hair metal band's album cover.
Admittedly, I've not yet seen the film. Could the heavy metal style font be intentional?

Canon Group conceive the 80's title logotype onto the poster so they could lurked the Chuck Norris audience into seeing a Jean-Luc Godard picture!

Jesus, that looks like a logo of an '80s children's cartoon.

It also has a bit of

to it.

Robot opens also immediately jumped to my head. It's just a typical 80s typeface

It reminds me of the Cinemetal T shirts that the IFC Center in Manhattan sells.

Hilarious. Love the Ozu and the Ingmar.

It's got some of this too:

That reminds me that, as mentioned in this post, the Fassbinder T-shirt turns up in a scene in Gaspar Noé's Love! (NSFW: Language)

Those shirts were created by the fine people at Cinefile Video in Los Angeles. They also make a beautiful Philip Seymour Hoffman tote bag.

domino harvey wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2017 5:41 pm I would love to see Criterion track down Julie Delpy to talk about her minor role (or hell, since they'll no doubt already be interviewing her for Sixteen Candles, Molly Ringwald)

Didn’t actually think a Ringwald interview would happen, but I’m def excited for it!

Not a huge fan of the cover but incredibly excited for this one - especially hearing the stereo surround track in full fidelity!

I just thank God they didn’t try to frame this incorrectly in 1.66 like the MGM DVD. I’ve never seen a good looking copy of this film, so a Blu-ray will be incredible

Wow, finally - glad to know someone is still prioritizing Godard in the pipeline! Very curious to see how this plays in HD

It will be almost 8 years between the first word of this and the actual release.

Incredible announcement, can’t wait. I believe this is Brody’s favorite film so his double involvement makes sense.

I guess it'd be too much to ask to include Meetin' WA in this climate

Interesting that Allen is credited on the release at all. It seems they want to really distance themselves from him.

I'm not seeing a credit for Allen on the page. (Unless you mean interesting that he ISN'T credited.)