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So.
Been watching every Godard film ever made in order. Hahaha.
If you skip his television serieses, Historie(s) du cinema, his Group stuff with Gorin (though you should watch British Sounds, Joy of Learning, and tout Va bien as they are more "film" films than the other stuff like Struggles in Italy and Wind From the East) and all his shorts (the man has a LOT of shorts), he only has, oh 37 films. I noticed he never made a film longer than 2 hours either.
I am slowly getting all the shorts I've never seen... though I have probably 10 of his shorts, I'm discovering new ones all the time. He did this one called AMORE.. yeah, just "Love". It's absolutely AMAZING! One woman talks in French, one man talks in Italian, and they talk about another couple, describing them and their "Role" in the "film". Then, the film happens. The way the scenes are framed... off-center, sometimes just the eyes or the mouth... is actually pretty wild compared to Godard's other films, especially at the time (right before Week End). Kinda odd. There's a long static shot of a man talking about cinema disappearing and the screen goes black -- odd that I'd used this same exact idea in Currently Untitled, well before I'd seen this film, or even heard of it!
There's another long static shot with a man talking and for no apparent reason, the camera starts wildly zipping diagnolly and from side-to-side.
Great little short. If you're on cinemageddon, type in godard. Many of his shorts are on btjunkie as well, though they're ALWAYS packed with compilations.. in other words, you have to watch the whole film, they're very very rarely cut and by themselves.
I highly reccomend ANTICIPATION, his 12 minute short with anna karina as a prostitute (real original eh?). It's the last film they made together, and Godard sets out to degrade her in it. Pretty wild. She plays some kind of sex robot prostitute thing and a guy sprays white cream on her face as she licks it up. Pretty, uh, weird.
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