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Kirkinson wrote:

domino harvey wrote:

TheGodfather wrote:I was thinking about ordering this book

An excellent, HUGE tome-- it's practically a text book. If you have any interest in late-period Godard, it's essential.

Co-sign. It's an absolutely superb book, very studious and exhaust(ive/ing).

Thanks. Wich one of the 2 do I need to get? this one or this one? are there, except for the price, any differences between them?

I have the paperback version and it's almost as stiff as a hardback (that's what they mean by turtleback-- I'm sure the librarians on the board will tell you it's similar to a laminated paperback cover that emulates a hardback). It's so bulky (have I mentioned yet that the thing's freaking huge? Think phonebook) that it's going to be cumbersome no matter what, but I have no complaints about the paperback-- and it even has interior flaps like a hardback book's dust jacket. This is all based on the American version, though I don't think there's any difference.

domino harvey wrote:It's so bulky (have I mentioned yet that the thing's freaking huge? Think phonebook) that it's going to be cumbersome no matter what, but I have no complaints about the paperback-- and it even has interior flaps like a hardback book's dust jacket. This is all based on the American version, though I don't think there's any difference.

I have the 2007 paperback issue which I ordered from Chapters.Indigo for $26.73 CND which doesn't have the interior flaps, and yes the book is freaking huge! The rural post office phoned me in the morning to ensure I was home so the postal carrier can deliver it to my door since the mailbox is too small.

Ok thanks for the help guys. Just ordered the turtleback version.
Can`t wait to get it

Edit: Received the book last weekend. And indeed: it`s HUGE!
Looked through it quickly and it looks excellent, looking forward to reading it.

Godard shot a 3 minute report about "foreign resorts" for Swiss daily news on TSR. Sounds interesting!!!

The latest Film Forum podcast is a nice primer to La Chinoise by Richard Brody.

(And thanks for the mentions of the For Ever Godard book. You inspired me to order it too!)

colinr0380 wrote:(And thanks for the mentions of the For Ever Godard book. You inspired me to order it too!)

Good going =D>

TheGodfather wrote:

colinr0380 wrote:(And thanks for the mentions of the For Ever Godard book. You inspired me to order it too!)

Good going

Yeah its a great book, i got it thanks to greekboy on this very forum. =D>

Macintosh wrote:

TheGodfather wrote:

colinr0380 wrote:(And thanks for the mentions of the For Ever Godard book. You inspired me to order it too!)

Good going

Yeah its a great book, i got it thanks to greekboy on this very forum.

Sorry for a meaningless to anyone else post but I need to get my frustration out somehow! - just been told by my bookshop that the copy I ordered has arrived but I don't have time to pick it up until the weekend. It is going to be one heck of a long week!

tavernier wrote:Rosenbaum on the Brody book.

I'm through the first 100 pages and Brody does an excellent job of setting up the post-WW2 Paris setting the Young Turks came to age in. I never realized the relish with which they played the right-wing "les enfants terribles" role. It was like a Parisian punk movement.

The book sounds fascinating, but Rosenbaum's analysis of its weaknesses has me on the fence. I think I'll go to the library for this one.

Does a book exist that could be described as the Easy Riders, Raging Bulls of the French New Wave crowd? You know, a fabulous and sensational account of their personal lives during their crazy productive years? That would be great...

Brody's "Auteur Wars" piece in The New Yorker a month or so ago was an outstanding brief overview of the Truffaut/Godard relationship.

Pick up a 49-DVD boxset for $25 or so!!!

Barmy wrote:Pick up a 49-DVD boxset for $25 or so!!!

the cover for this box from the same seller is killing me.

The Bergman 47-DVD set looks enticing--I wonder if I can bargain it down to $9.99.

When I think Bergman, I think summer camp arts and crafts leather wallet.

Can somebody school me on this? I don't get it.
This is entirely fake bullshit, right?!

That's fairly elaborate bullshit, no?
What do you receive if you're foolish enough to buy it?
All DVD-R bootlegs, or a box full of confetti?
Or the actual used copies of the films?!

Or is this just a spoof Web site and you're making me look stupid?

The seller's from Hong Kong, Bootleg Capitol of the World. If you order the set, expect a box of DVD-R rips grabbed off the internet (and depending on how popular the title is, some might even be actual DVDs sourced from said rips), packaged in white foam envelopes-- and no one dumb/cheap enough to buy these sets expects anything less than that.

I actually did buy the Angelopoulos a few years ago for a few bucks. What the hell. But what gets me is the Bergman is 40 cents per disc. Can you even buy blank discs in the US for that? And a fair amount of this crap is not available on legit DVDs.

Odds are better than not that they're factory-pressed DVDs, which are cheaper than DVD-Rs. Bootleggers in Asia (well, much of Asia, anyway) are full-blown professional operations, with factories and warehouses and everything -- a couple of Chinese pirate outfits have even "gone straight" and worked with Hollywood studios.

And I don't know much about the status of Bergman on DVD, but everything in those Godard and Polanski sets has been released on legit DVD somewhere (mostly in Japan in the case of the Godards, hence all the Japanese subtitles). Some of them are OOP, though.

I'm just going to walk up Canal Street and riffle through the copies of Baby Mama in hopes of scoring an After the Rehearsal.

domino harvey wrote:When I think Bergman, I think summer camp arts and crafts leather wallet.

My favorite part is that the Ebay listing gives Bergman's height as "5' 10½" (1.79 m)." Like he's going to be in a fucking boxing match against Fellini or someone for the title of the world's greatest autuer, and we are getting the tale of the tape.

I was about to post that Godard was visiting Israel for the 12th International Student Film Festival for a meeting with film students on June 4, but after an open letter endorsed by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and a list of Palestinian and Arab filmmakers, it seems he's now pulled out due to "reasons beyond his control."

I was hoping he would go as it would be an act in support of reconciliation, something which really came through in Notre Musique. But judging by all the angry comments in those articles it's hardly surprising reconciliation is a pretty long way off. It really sucks for the students too, not to mention the fact that there was a chance for him to say more about his new film which is now lost.