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Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:51 pm
by Ben Cheshire
Can I just confirm that the R4 Madman Godards are REALLY good!
I've got Vivre Sa Vie, Le Chinoise and soon Masculin Feminin.
Picture quality is so good on Le Chinoise (Watching right now) it almost looks high def, when upscaled by my PS3. Very impressive.
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:15 pm
by Michael Kerpan
Just watched the R1 La chinoise this week (and enjoyed it). This looked pretty decent -- and had a nice interview with Anna W. Anything like this on the R4?
(Also saw Le gai savoir, which I hated).
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:55 am
by Ben Cheshire
Michael Kerpan wrote:Just watched the R1 La chinoise this week (and enjoyed it). This looked pretty decent -- and had a nice interview with Anna W. Anything like this on the R4?
(Also saw Le gai savoir, which I hated).
I thought I might not like Gai Savoir, so haven't checked it out. R4 has an audio commentary by James Hewison, director of Melbourne International Film Festival.
Masculin Feminin I wanted to get R4 because it comes with Charlotte et son Jules.
Vivre Sa Vie comes with a Godard short too; Story of Water, I think. But this one's going Criterion and hopefully blu soon, so this'll be irrelevent.
Woman is a Woman I've gone with the R1 because of the unique white Criterion case, and maybe some other reasons I've forgotten.
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:08 am
by domino harvey
The La Chinoise commentary isn't very good, but the Madman disc is Region 0
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:32 am
by Ben Cheshire
domino harvey wrote:The La Chinoise commentary isn't very good, but the Madman disc is Region 0
I was surprised how much I enjoyed/admired La Chinoise. Its just so fresh and fast. I definitely prefer it to those moments of Godard that are slower-paced. I didn't really love 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, which is why I thought maybe this period of his wouldn't be for me, but liking this one makes me think I might like Made in USA; particularly if its features Anna Karina! (who I ADORE after Vivre Sa Vie).
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 2:25 pm
by accatone
Fleischer doc synopsis with some extraits:
http://www.editionsmontparnasse.fr/titr ... luc-godard" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 1:42 pm
by gyorgys
Does anybody know if there's a DVD of
La Chinoise available which contains the end title card ("FIN D'UN COMMENCEMENT") at the very end of the film after the final shot?
I do know that the Koch/Lorber (R1) and Optimum (R2) are
missing the card. Perhaps the Madman (R4) is not ?
It may be of interest for the context of the film, especially when one considers that subsequent films, as
Weekend (also 1967) and
Le Gai Savoir (1969), are also ending on intertitle cards.
EDIT: The
Madman doesn't have it either.
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:01 pm
by otis
That's curious. The versions of Le Gai Savoir I've seen (the American and Australian DVDs) finish on a black screen with Godard's voiceover on the soundtrack. What's your source for the end title card - and what does it say?
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:04 pm
by gyorgys
From the link I posted above (Beaver) :
For confirmation of this intertitle and where it occurs in the film, you may wish to consult James Roy MacBean, "Film and Revolution," Indiana University Press, 1975, p. 27, also James Monaco, "The New Wave: Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette," Oxford University Press, 1976, p. 196. Both authors explicitly cite this intertitle as the closure to the film. Obviously, the film has different meanings without it, not to mention altering the context for the two features directed by Godard immediately following, "Weekend" and "Le Gai Savoir," which also close on intertitles [Italics mine]. (...) this absence is puzzling. You can hear the closing music over a blank, black screen, during the time that the intertitle should appear. The absence thus seems more like a removal--if the final seconds of the source print were simply lost, how could you still have the soundtrack?
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:25 pm
by Mr. Ned
Anyone know if this set comes with English subtitles? There's no mention of it on the site, so I'll expect a negative answer but I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:12 am
by accatone
No engl. subs!
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:43 am
by otis
gyorgys wrote:From the link I posted above (Beaver) :
Peter Henne wrote:..."Le Gai Savoir," which also close[s] on [an] intertitle...
Does anyone else have any info on this, or are we just going on Peter Henne's memory?
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:45 pm
by TheGodfather
Just saw (via the dvdbeaver site) that
Amazon.fr has the dvd release of Film Socialisme up for pre-order.
Does anyone know if it`s going to have English subtitles? Hope so, waiting for quite a while a now to see this.
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:07 pm
by NABOB OF NOWHERE
TheGodfather wrote:Just saw (via the dvdbeaver site) that
Amazon.fr has the dvd release of Film Socialisme up for pre-order.
Does anyone know if it`s going to have English subtitles? Hope so, waiting for quite a while a now to see this.
http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/vie ... &start=150" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 7:56 pm
by TheGodfather
NABOB OF NOWHERE wrote:TheGodfather wrote:Just saw (via the dvdbeaver site) that
Amazon.fr has the dvd release of Film Socialisme up for pre-order.
Does anyone know if it`s going to have English subtitles? Hope so, waiting for quite a while a now to see this.
http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/vie ... &start=150" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Thanks. didn`t notice that thread
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:31 am
by Stefan Andersson
Big Godard box set coming up in France. Apparently w/ Eng subs. Bonuses: stuff from episode films and much more.
No info re: subs on extras.
http://www.dvdfr.com/dvd/f49948-jean-lu ... 0-dvd.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:20 am
by martin
Great news - particularly this: For Ever Mozart (1996, 82’) (en format respecté 1.37 4/3)!
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:33 am
by Ovader
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:00 pm
by Murdoch
If that had included King Lear in OAR it would be the release of the year for me. Still great news though, someone found what he wants for Christmas \:D/
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 5:16 am
by Perkins Cobb
The pop-up I got for
The Last Exorcism when I clicked this link was a nice touch, albeit really more Rivettian (Rivettean?) than Godardian. B-.
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:14 am
by Oedipax
This release seems to have slipped by our notice - Intermedio, the company that put out a Spanish-friendly release of JLG's Dziga Vertov Group films a while back, has released a
new box set focusing (with one exception) on post-Vertov essay films:
La Gai Savoir
Soft and Hard
Numéro Deux
Scénario du film 'Passion'
Comment ça va?
JLG/JLG
Lettre à Freddy Buache
Meetin' W.A.
It also includes the impressive sounding
Jean-Luc Godard: Thinking between images. Conversations, interviews, presentations and other fragments, edited by Núria Aidelman and Gonzalo de Lucas, totaling 512 pages! I'm guessing this will also be a Spanish-language volume.
If it's the same as the previous set, the transfers can be expected to be excellent. The downside is there are only Spanish subtitles (but this can be, shall we say, 'remedied').
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:34 am
by stereo
Does anyone know how to order this box set from the Spanish site into the U.S. since it requires NIF/CIF numbers? Or is there another site that doesn't require these?
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:56 am
by AlexHansen
I got it from
fnac without any problems. Shipping's spendy but speedy.
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 3:05 am
by Oedipax
AlexHansen wrote:I got it from
fnac without any problems. Shipping's spendy but speedy.
Did you receive it yet? And if so - can you confirm the subtitles aren't burned in? And that the transfers are good?
Re: Godard on DVD
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 3:08 am
by stereo
Hmmm; I just tried from the FNAC link and can't find an U.S. shipping option (estados unidos or anything else resembling America).
