favorite jean-luc godard movies?
 

as long as we're being film snobs...

1. WEEKEND (this movie is so fucking awesome i can't believe it, scares the shit outta people)
2. Alphaville
3. Band Of Outsiders
4. A Woman Is A Woman
5. Contempt
6. Tout Va Bien

i still gotta see Breathless...

Alphaville!

le mepris!!!!!!

alphaville!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I couldn't make it through Alphaville, but I liked Two or Three Things I Know About Her

i was bored stupid by a bout de soufle

le mepris = contempt

fucking brilliant cinematography, story, characters, fritz lang!

this movie gives me eyegasms.

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i liked band of outsiders ok

les carabiniers is bizarre but very very funny especially in these days of perpetual war and poor uneducated kids being recruited into the armies

i have not seen le gai savoir or je vous salue marie

(yet)

Oh wow, I JUST saw "Breathless" yesterday. Its the only Godard movie I have seen so far. I'm really into seeing fifties and 60's french films lately. I've been renting a lot of them from Netflix.

Haven't seen many but my opinion on him is divided to say the least. Really like A Bout De Soufle but fucking hated Tout Va Bien. I don't think I would feel as strongly about it as I did when I first saw it but I can't imagine actually liking much either. The whole distanciation thing just seemed really laboured....

I almost bought Weekend the other day (on the weekend in fact) because I have been dying to see it for ages and I can't imagine not liking Alphaville for some reason....

Seriously, Weekend is a tour de force. It is scathing unlike any other movie (except perhaps Network)... pure ball-busting capitalist-bashing, entertaining as hell too...

what about a bout de souffle/breathless do people like so much? I don't get it, i bought bande a part and didn't watch it cus i didn't like a bout de souffle

made in USA
contempt
band of outsiders
weekend

I haven't seen very much Godard, but from what I have seen mos def. Masculin Feminin! My avatar is from that film! A Bout De Souffle is very good as well.

Finally I have found a kindred spirit in "i am the arm". Weekend is also my favourite Godard film yet few other people, even among Godard fans like it as much as his other stuff.

Re johnnywinternoshow don't worry about not liking Breathless. I absolutely detestedt it because it pissed me off so much and it was also my first film from Godard. I still don't think I'd like it all that much if I watched it now.

Then I watched Weekend. I couldn't fucking believe what I had just seen. One of the very few films in the history of cinema that can truly be said to be iconoclastic, in the "I'm gunna tear down the fucking establishment like a 14th century church smashing barbarian" kind of way.

I've seen pushing 30 of his films. So I'll do a little guide for people trying to get into his work when I have a little more time. That sounds a bit pretentious. I'll recommend some films of his that I think kick cinematic arse and don't bore like many see Breathless as doing.

Bumpity-bump bump. Criterion is releasing 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her and Made in USA. Anyone know if these are worth picking up?

Pierrot Le Fou!

Seems like it was very influential on Kitano.

i fucking loved a bout de souffle.

but i think i like my life to live more than that one. i haven't seen any other film made by him.

but the part where she's in the movie theater and watching joan of arc... two tears fall from her eyes with out her having to even squeeze them out.. big fat ones.

i fucking died.

Good point, never thought bout this. The whole enjoyment of life while something terrible is happening...the beach scenes in the middle...the endings, color schemes, etc. sorry not so eloquent, im braindead and tired at the moment. but i feel you on that.

My Live to Live is great...i only saw it once, in a film class, and it was the first godard film i saw. criterion need to release that and week-end pronto.

une femme est une femme
a bout de souffle
pierrot le fou
week end
masculin feminine

man i hope these two new releases are good...i hate it when you finally exhaust the releases of any artist/musician/writer/director that you love, and there's nothing left to gather by them.

these are the ones i've seen:

1. pierrot le fou
2. alphaville
3. my life to live
4. a woman is a woman
5. week-end
6. contempt
7. breathless
8. band of outsiders
9. le petit soldat

Oh Man....a Godard thread. (But I hate this notion that Godard fan's must be snobs, intellectuals or whatever. Meh.)

2009 is a huge Godard Exploration year for me, and I'm dizzy about it. I think Pierrot Le Fou is my favourite, possibly the greatest film ever made. Contempt is also right up there. I think his later works have been vastly overlooked, and I rank 2004s Notre Musique right up there with his best, as well as 1985s Detective. I have so much more to say about all this....later....after I read this thread....but Godard has changed my life, Fuck!

This post made me cry. A lot.

I am so fucking on this! I have not seen these, nor Weekend, nor My Life To Live, yet.

Yes, I'm a Phillistine!

One of the greatest responses to a question ever.

I'm not a big fan really. I do love Contempt though. Although I think this has more to do with Bridget Bardot than it does with Godard.

I don't mean this flippantly, but I think he's a very boring filmmaker. The kind of person who can do all the tricks but doesn't have what's required to transform them into something really engaging. What's more, he's always struck me as being one of the most humourless filmmakers out there. A fact made especially evident in his so called comedies.

Godard's made at least a film a year for the past four decades or so and this was the first post to acknowledge that. I get the impression many people think he retired after 1971 or something.

Kudos to you.

To be fair, a lot are hard to track down, but not impossible if you all are the fans you claim to be.

Alphaville and Masculin Feminin are my personal favorites. Godard is brilliant.

Leon

So far i've seen like 15 films of his.
Most of the 50-60's are awesome, also Notre musique, Détective and Prénom Carmen are great.
The collection of four short films (released by ECM) is great, one of them "Je vous salue, Sarajevo" is one my all time favorites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItEHvYi8KZI

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That was beautiful.

My favorite moment in Weekend is that looooooooooong shot of the highway... that 10+ minute tracking shot, showing a million cars, a boat, giraffes, dead bodies, etc. I had no idea this shot was in the movie when I first watched it so when it came on I was blown away.

Damn, I still have yet to watch Weekend!

I think the greatest part about that shot is how bad it made me feel... it totally makes me rethink slow traffic on the interstate.

but think about it. we're so desensitized we don't even give a hoot if someone died on the road, we just want to go about our day and not give a fuck about anyone else. and i think godard captured that perfectly.

The only Godard movie I've seen is Band of Outsiders, but I liked it a bit. I wanna see Breathless, Contempt, and Alphaville, but dunno which one to see first.

i think you have to be a hopeless romantic trapped inside a badass rebels body to really appreciate breathless.. so watch that one last or first depending on how those adjectives describe you.

You should check out Alphaville next.
Here's why: