Godard on DVD and Blu-ray

[Ben Cheshire]

Can I just confirm that the R4 Madman Godards are REALLY good!

I've got Vivre Sa Vie, Le Chinoise and soon Masculin Feminin.

Picture quality is so good on Le Chinoise (Watching right now) it almost looks high def, when upscaled by my PS3. Very impressive.

[Michael Kerpan]

Just watched the R1 La chinoise this week (and enjoyed it). This looked pretty decent -- and had a nice interview with Anna W. Anything like this on the R4?

(Also saw Le gai savoir, which I hated).

[Ben Cheshire]

Just watched the R1 La chinoise this week (and enjoyed it). This looked pretty decent -- and had a nice interview with Anna W. Anything like this on the R4?

(Also saw Le gai savoir, which I hated).

I thought I might not like Gai Savoir, so haven't checked it out. R4 has an audio commentary by James Hewison, director of Melbourne International Film Festival.

Masculin Feminin I wanted to get R4 because it comes with Charlotte et son Jules.

Vivre Sa Vie comes with a Godard short too; Story of Water, I think. But this one's going Criterion and hopefully blu soon, so this'll be irrelevent.

Woman is a Woman I've gone with the R1 because of the unique white Criterion case, and maybe some other reasons I've forgotten.

[domino harvey]

The La Chinoise commentary isn't very good, but the Madman disc is Region 0

[Ben Cheshire]

The La Chinoise commentary isn't very good, but the Madman disc is Region 0

I was surprised how much I enjoyed/admired La Chinoise. Its just so fresh and fast. I definitely prefer it to those moments of Godard that are slower-paced. I didn't really love 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, which is why I thought maybe this period of his wouldn't be for me, but liking this one makes me think I might like Made in USA; particularly if its features Anna Karina! (who I ADORE after Vivre Sa Vie).

[accatone]

Fleischer doc synopsis with some extraits: http://www.editionsmontparnasse.fr/titr ... luc-godard" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[gyorgys]

Does anybody know if there's a DVD of La Chinoise available which contains the end title card ("FIN D'UN COMMENCEMENT") at the very end of the film after the final shot?
I do know that the Koch/Lorber (R1) and Optimum (R2) are missing the card. Perhaps the Madman (R4) is not ?

It may be of interest for the context of the film, especially when one considers that subsequent films, as Weekend (also 1967) and Le Gai Savoir (1969), are also ending on intertitle cards.

EDIT: The Madman doesn't have it either.

[otis]

That's curious. The versions of Le Gai Savoir I've seen (the American and Australian DVDs) finish on a black screen with Godard's voiceover on the soundtrack. What's your source for the end title card - and what does it say?

[gyorgys]

From the link I posted above (Beaver) :

For confirmation of this intertitle and where it occurs in the film, you may wish to consult James Roy MacBean, "Film and Revolution," Indiana University Press, 1975, p. 27, also James Monaco, "The New Wave: Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette," Oxford University Press, 1976, p. 196. Both authors explicitly cite this intertitle as the closure to the film. Obviously, the film has different meanings without it, not to mention altering the context for the two features directed by Godard immediately following, "Weekend" and "Le Gai Savoir," which also close on intertitles [Italics mine]. (...) this absence is puzzling. You can hear the closing music over a blank, black screen, during the time that the intertitle should appear. The absence thus seems more like a removal--if the final seconds of the source print were simply lost, how could you still have the soundtrack?

[Mr. Ned]

The Fleischer doc.: http://www.amazon.fr/Morceaux-Conversat ... 05&sr=8-14" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Anyone know if this set comes with English subtitles? There's no mention of it on the site, so I'll expect a negative answer but I'll keep my fingers crossed.

[accatone]

No engl. subs!

[otis]

From the link I posted above (Beaver) :

..."Le Gai Savoir," which also close[s] on [an] intertitle...

Does anyone else have any info on this, or are we just going on Peter Henne's memory?

[TheGodfather]

Just saw (via the dvdbeaver site) that Amazon.fr has the dvd release of Film Socialisme up for pre-order.
Does anyone know if it`s going to have English subtitles? Hope so, waiting for quite a while a now to see this.

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Just saw (via the dvdbeaver site) that Amazon.fr has the dvd release of Film Socialisme up for pre-order.
Does anyone know if it`s going to have English subtitles? Hope so, waiting for quite a while a now to see this.

http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/vie ... &start=150" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[TheGodfather]

Just saw (via the dvdbeaver site) that Amazon.fr has the dvd release of Film Socialisme up for pre-order.
Does anyone know if it`s going to have English subtitles? Hope so, waiting for quite a while a now to see this.

http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/vie ... &start=150" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thanks. didn`t notice that thread

[Stefan Andersson]

Big Godard box set coming up in France. Apparently w/ Eng subs. Bonuses: stuff from episode films and much more.
No info re: subs on extras.
http://www.dvdfr.com/dvd/f49948-jean-lu ... 0-dvd.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[martin]

Great news - particularly this: For Ever Mozart (1996, 82’) (en format respecté 1.37 4/3)!

[Ovader]

Godard box set packaging

[Murdoch]

If that had included King Lear in OAR it would be the release of the year for me. Still great news though, someone found what he wants for Christmas \:D/

[Perkins Cobb]

Big Godard box set coming up in France. Apparently w/ Eng subs. Bonuses: stuff from episode films and much more.
No info re: subs on extras.
http://www.dvdfr.com/dvd/f49948-jean-lu ... 0-dvd.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The pop-up I got for The Last Exorcism when I clicked this link was a nice touch, albeit really more Rivettian (Rivettean?) than Godardian. B-.

[Oedipax]

This release seems to have slipped by our notice - Intermedio, the company that put out a Spanish-friendly release of JLG's Dziga Vertov Group films a while back, has released a new box set focusing (with one exception) on post-Vertov essay films:

La Gai Savoir
Soft and Hard
Numéro Deux
Scénario du film 'Passion'
Comment ça va?
JLG/JLG
Lettre à Freddy Buache
Meetin' W.A.

It also includes the impressive sounding Jean-Luc Godard: Thinking between images. Conversations, interviews, presentations and other fragments, edited by Núria Aidelman and Gonzalo de Lucas, totaling 512 pages! I'm guessing this will also be a Spanish-language volume.

If it's the same as the previous set, the transfers can be expected to be excellent. The downside is there are only Spanish subtitles (but this can be, shall we say, 'remedied').

[stereo]

Does anyone know how to order this box set from the Spanish site into the U.S. since it requires NIF/CIF numbers? Or is there another site that doesn't require these?

[AlexHansen]

I got it from fnac without any problems. Shipping's spendy but speedy.

[Oedipax]

I got it from fnac without any problems. Shipping's spendy but speedy.

Did you receive it yet? And if so - can you confirm the subtitles aren't burned in? And that the transfers are good?

[stereo]

Hmmm; I just tried from the FNAC link and can't find an U.S. shipping option (estados unidos or anything else resembling America).