Jean Luc Godard

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Okay, okay...

All this talk about Godard's work and no one has yet to mention Herzog's hilarious quote on him: “Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung-fu film.”

Just how badass is Herzog, really?



I'll just leave this here in case you Godard fans want to watch it.

http://www.avclub.com/article/one-wo...youtube-250558

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Surprised at how few threads about Godard there are on this site, and how inactive this one is despite being the general discussion/appreciation thread for his work :/



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Robert Bresson is much better... I've owned a few of his movies (and sold them). I did like "Les Mepris", but I can't think of many of his movies that are great. Some are good, some are decent, some are bad.



How would you rank his movies?

1. Keep Your Right Up
2. Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
3. Histoire(s) du cinema
4. "Origins of the 21st Century"
5. Contempt
6. Numero Deux
7. In Praise of Love
8. Oh, Woe Is Me
9. Goodbye to Language
10. Vivre Sa Vie
11. Six Fous Deux / Sur et sous la communication
12. "Dans le noir du temps"
13. Notre Musique
14. Hail Mary
15. "Je vous salue, Sarajevo"
16. Every Man for Himself
17. "Liberty and Homeland"
18. Film Socialisme
19. Le Gai Savoir
20. King Lear
21. The Image Book
22. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
23. Nouvelle Vague
24. Vladimir and Rosa
25. Sympathy for the Devil
26. Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
27. Weekend
28. Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
29. Prenom Carmen
30. The Married Woman
31. Pierrot le Fou
32. Passion
33. JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
34. La Chinoise
35. Wind from the East
36. British Sounds
37. Struggle in Italy
38. Tout va Bien
39. "Scenario de 'Sauve qui peut (la vie)'"
40. Le Petit Soldat
41. Comment ca va?
42. "L'Enfance de l'art"
43. Masculin Feminin
44. Scenario du Film 'Passion'
45. Band of Outsiders
46. Made in U.S.A.
47. "On s'est rous defile"
48. Alphaville
49. "Adieu au TNS"
50. For Ever Mozart
51. A Woman Is a Woman
52. Breathless
53. Detective
54. "Schick After Shave"
55. "Closed Jeans (Series 1+2) & Metamorphjean"
56. "All the Boys Are Called Patrick"
57. "A Story of Water"
58. "Charlotte and Her Boyfriend"
59. "Une femme coquette"


Do you own any of his films?

Yes, 37 so far. (Not gonna list them for obvious reasons, haha.)


Is he the best French Director?

I have a hard time thinking of a better one. A large factor being that his filmography is so large compared to others — even compared to his contemporaries whose careers spanned similar amounts of time — but also how much of that work is of higher quality.

The only French filmmakers that come close IMO are Straub-Huillet, Renoir, Rivette, Bresson, Demy, and Rohmer. (I'm not going to count Jacques Tourneur here since he's largely associated with Hollywood's golden studio decades, even though he began his career in France.)

But even those 6, who are masters of cinema in their own rights, can only be named with regards to consistency of high quality output across their careers, since Godard's quantity of it easily outpaces them. Though there are a couple others who could potentially end up among those candidates, but I need to see more of their work first (Moullet, Rousseau, Marker, Guitry, Duras).