I went through a Godard phase and then eventually got over it and realized that him (and some of the French New Wave in genera) can be too superficial and detached. I loved Contempt but haven’t seen it in a few years. I still f*** with Breathless, Band of Outsiders, Vivre sa Vie and Pierrot le Fou though. Weekend was half interesting / half obnoxious though.

But when it comes to French Cinema of that time, id take Resnais and Demy were so much more interesting than Godard and Truffaut.

My copy of Three Fantastic
Journeys by Karel Zeman arrived today from the sale with a huge ass bend in the outer and inner packaging

Gonna have to contact the homie
Jon Mulvaney

if u show girls these movies they will love u

1000% hate his films they feel pointless and meaningless and like some hipster nihilist ironic s***

Detached is the perfect word. Vivre sa vie is the best I’ve seen so far and weekend was so so so bad I wanted to turn it off but forced myself to finish

Just copped paris is burning

I wonder if people like him because they don‘t understand him

tbh this kinda s*** happens way too much imo.

also wonder who those returned copies get pawned off to lol

UNE INSULTE DE JLG

What s***ty packaging these come in.

My Bottle Rocket case came cracked

I didnt even realize that was one take until i read about it. Wild

Wtf. Hit em up.

Damn i didnt know there were other ppl who found godard Rated too highly. Dude is pretty mid for the most part imo He has a few great movies and has done alot for the development of cinema itself tho.

I‘m picky af

What did it come in since you just ordered that?

I had bottle rocket with like 3 others and it came in a box so I was good

I’ve always rated him as more of a film makers film maker because outside of the classics (Breathless, Vivre Sa Vie) his films just really seemed set up to show how cool and philosophical he is lol. But the method in which he made and shot the movies seemed to have inspired a lot of the greats that followed

I only ordered Bottle Rocket so it was essentially a cardboard envelope. I guess that’s what I get for only buying one thing

I’ll be sending it back tho

dang wish Criterion should be like Eureka’s in terms of shipping just one film

They did the cardboard envelope for me too and I had just ordered the Three Fantastic Journeys boxset, Holiday and Paris is Burning and they were all smushed I’m so my boxset was damaged. S***s ridiculous

This Godard disrespect, I admit I don’t necessarily ‘understand’ his films, but I hardly understand the full meaning of many favorite films. It’s less about understanding than experience w film (and all art imo) and I don’t think the political nature necessarily changes that expectation. It’s all just experimenting w film language and maybe he doesn’t necessarily succeed in delivering clear knowledge production, it’s still a very unique n fun experience w any of his films in my experience

I agree with you 100%

Finally watched The Seventh Seal..

That was interesting, anyone care to drop their opinion about it?

f***ing hilarious, funniest movie of the 50s

what they achieved on that shoestring budget in that short of time is amazing

Great ass film. Bleak as f*** but still darkly comedic. Was it your first Bergman?