❂ December 3, 2011
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Jean-Luc Godard and Brigitte Bardot during the filming of Le Mepris (Contempt)
1963
Sixties Godard
by Patrick Z. McGavin
There was a time, unmistakably, when Godard was a colossus, the most important filmmaker of his era. From March of 1960 to late December of 1967, Godard made an astounding fifteen feature films. He also made at least five shorts preceding Breathless, as well as a series of provocative, fascinating sketch works, as many as six or seven. “Today I’m going to sing the praises of Jean-Luc, who makes films just as I do, except he makes twice as many,” Francois Truffaut marveled in a 1962 essay.
Eight were shot in black and white, and the other seven in color. The spontaneity, freedom and inventiveness of the Sixties’ films are as fresh and involving today as the moment they first appeared. In her landmark essay on Godard, Susan Sontag was one of the first to capture his particular genius: “One goes to the latest Godard prepared to see something both achieved and chaotic, ‘work in progress’ which resists easy admiration.
The qualities that make Godard, unlike Bresson, a culture hero … are precisely his prodigal energies, his evident risk-taking, the quirky individualism of his mastery of a corporate, drastically commercialized art.” Sontag also observes how Godard shared, with Joyce, Picasso and Stravinsky, a “hypertrophy of appetite for culture.”
Read the rest of the article here: Light Sensitive
HEY! I finally made hi-res versions of this poster…..now with new styles/colorways based on different Jarmusch movies.
Dial Hard trailer
Stella Artois did these fake French New Wave trailers for American films earlier this year. This one is Die Hard, done Godard style.
One Plus One / Sympathy For The Devil trailer
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
1968
I’m convinced Godard was so next level that he knew in the future bloggers would carefully select and post enough screengrabs (and trailers) of his films to the point where you can enjoy them without actually having to watch it. Which is totally the case with this movie. Also trailer fail to the dude who misspelled Keith Richard(s).
Movie nerd trivia: Godard was called to England to make a film calling for the legalization of abortion. Shortly after his arrival, though, England relaxed its abortion laws, and his film became unnecessary. Godard agreed to remain in England on the condition that he could make a film with either The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. The Beatles declined the offer, but the Stones promptly accepted, claiming they were avid fans of Godard’s work. (via IMDB)
Rolling Stones / Sympathy For The Devil poster
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
1968
via youmakemefeel
Made In U.S.A. illustration
by ree＊rosee
Une Femme Est Une Femme (A Woman is A Woman) illustrations
by ree＊rosee
Pierrot Le Fou illustrations
by ree＊rosee
I just found out about Japanese artist ree＊rosee. 60’s fashion illustration style meets cute cinema girls. Right on.
Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
1966
Sup shorty from the Godard films who enjoys her cigarettes as much as her eyeliner. U wanna grab some breakfast around 10-ish then ride a bike around the city? For lunch we can split a couple bottles of wine and talk about sex and politics and get lost in each others eyes amidst all the cigarette smoke. Then we can head over to the park during sunset and read make out. Sound good? All right holler at me girl.
Jean-Luc Godard & Anna Karina on the set of Bande à part
via oldhollywood / photo credit: Getty Images
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Jean-Luc Godard
1967
Yeah so, Barnes & Noble’s online store has this EPIC deal going on where they got all/most of their Criterion Collection DVD’s on sale for 50% OFF. This includes the new Godard releases of 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her and Made In USA which just came out today. Oh and you know, all the other ridiculously good films put out by Criterion. FFFFFUUUUU gonna be spending way too much money in the next few weeks……
Poster for a local art show. The theme was the 60’s so I decided to do my own rendition of the Masculin Feminin poster by Godard.
Rule #5, from Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Rules of Filmmaking
by Mark Malazarte
Post-modernism simplified in a visual quotation. Plus it features two of my favorite directors. That and this quote also eloquently sums up Tumblr and/or most blogs in a nutshell. Everyone seems to want prints of this but due to procrastination and a few other things, I haven’t gotten around to it yet. It’ll happen though, pinky swear.
