The cinematic legend died the way he lived – in a blaze of inscrutable, impossible film-making. We meet the team who helped shoot the final scene of his swansong just before his death by assisted suicide
On Friday 9 September 2022, Jean-Luc Godard had one last wish. He needed a quote from Jean-Paul Sartre to complete his film, Scénarios, but the book was missing from the shelf in his Swiss home. Time was pressing: he was up against a hard deadline. The film’s final scene was to be shot on Monday. On Tuesday, the director would die by assisted suicide.
Fabrice Aragno takes up the story. As Godard’s longtime collaborator, Aragno was his eyes and his ears, his trusted technical advisor. Surely he would be able to find the book from somewhere. “So on Friday 5.30pm, I drive very fast to Lausanne, 20 miles away,” he recalls. “I park the car and I’m sweating.
On Friday 9 September 2022, Jean-Luc Godard had one last wish. He needed a quote from Jean-Paul Sartre to complete his film, Scénarios, but the book was missing from the shelf in his Swiss home. Time was pressing: he was up against a hard deadline. The film’s final scene was to be shot on Monday. On Tuesday, the director would die by assisted suicide.
Fabrice Aragno takes up the story. As Godard’s longtime collaborator, Aragno was his eyes and his ears, his trusted technical advisor. Surely he would be able to find the book from somewhere. “So on Friday 5.30pm, I drive very fast to Lausanne, 20 miles away,” he recalls. “I park the car and I’m sweating.
- 5/20/2024
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Cannes film festival
Completed just before his assisted death, the French New Wave master director talks through his ideas as illustrated in his hand-drawn scrapbook
Here is an intriguing footnote to Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary career - a docu-textual movie collage lasting just under an hour in two parts, or maybe two layers, completed just before his assisted death two years ago in Switzerland at the age of 91. His collaborator and cinematographer Fabrice Aragno calls it not the “last Godard” but a “new Godard”. In its way, this little double film shows us a very great deal about Godard’s working habits, and it’s a late example of Godard speaking intimately in his own person about his own creative process.
Scénarios appears to have grown out of thoughts generated by his last film, The Image Book, which emerged in 2018. Godard sketched out his storyboarded or scrapbooked ideas for a short piece,...
Completed just before his assisted death, the French New Wave master director talks through his ideas as illustrated in his hand-drawn scrapbook
Here is an intriguing footnote to Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary career - a docu-textual movie collage lasting just under an hour in two parts, or maybe two layers, completed just before his assisted death two years ago in Switzerland at the age of 91. His collaborator and cinematographer Fabrice Aragno calls it not the “last Godard” but a “new Godard”. In its way, this little double film shows us a very great deal about Godard’s working habits, and it’s a late example of Godard speaking intimately in his own person about his own creative process.
Scénarios appears to have grown out of thoughts generated by his last film, The Image Book, which emerged in 2018. Godard sketched out his storyboarded or scrapbooked ideas for a short piece,...
- 5/18/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A year ago, the Cannes Film Festival presented the world premiere of what was widely taken to be Jean-Luc Godard’s final film. He had died by assisted suicide eight months before, and the 20-minute-long “Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars'” felt, by nature, like the aestheticized version of a last will and testament. It was a collage film, and it was (surprise!) oblique, yet it offered tea leaves to read about Godard’s state of mind as he prepared to leave the world.
As it turns out, “Trailer of the Film…” was not Godard’s final work. The 18-minute-long “Scénarios,” also made in a collage style, but simpler and more direct, was unveiled today at Cannes, along with a 34-minute documentary about the making of the short. “Scénarios” has the feel of a minor but purefied late-period work, like a Matisse paper cutout. What’s...
As it turns out, “Trailer of the Film…” was not Godard’s final work. The 18-minute-long “Scénarios,” also made in a collage style, but simpler and more direct, was unveiled today at Cannes, along with a 34-minute documentary about the making of the short. “Scénarios” has the feel of a minor but purefied late-period work, like a Matisse paper cutout. What’s...
- 5/17/2024
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
It’s now been over 600 days since the world’s most forward-thinking filmmaker, Jean-Luc Godard, left this world, but the icon of the French New Wave and beyond graciously left us with a few works. Last year, the Cannes Film Festival held the premiere of his short Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: ‘Phony Wars,’ and this year the festival will screen two final films from Godard and today brings the first images.
First up, running 18 minutes, is Scénarios, for which we have now have an expanded synopsis: “In French, ‘scénario’ is cinema’s name for how it tells stories. This is the title Jean-Luc Godard chose for his final film, which was literally completed the day before his self-death. This did not mean that it would remain unfinished, but that its very unfinishedness would make it complete. Yet Scénario, which then became Scénarios is twofold: DNA, fundamental elements,...
First up, running 18 minutes, is Scénarios, for which we have now have an expanded synopsis: “In French, ‘scénario’ is cinema’s name for how it tells stories. This is the title Jean-Luc Godard chose for his final film, which was literally completed the day before his self-death. This did not mean that it would remain unfinished, but that its very unfinishedness would make it complete. Yet Scénario, which then became Scénarios is twofold: DNA, fundamental elements,...
- 5/6/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Cannes Classics, the festival’s selection for tributes and retrospectives, has announced the rest of its program after the previously-announced opening night film “Napoleon Par Abel Gance.”
Among the highlights are a restoration of Charles Vidor’s 1946 “Gilda” to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Columbia Pictures, with Tom Rothman, Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, attending. Wim Wenders will be on hand for a 40th anniversary screening of Palme d’Or winner “Paris, Texas,” while Faye Dunaway will be present for the screening of “Faye,” the first documentary about her life.
Ron Howard will present his documentary “Jim Henson Idea Man,” while Nanette Burstein brings the premiere of her documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”
See the full program of Cannes Classics below.
100 years of Columbia Pictures
“Gilda”
Charles Vidor
1946, 1h50, United States
A Sony Pictures Entertainment presentation. Restoration from the original 35mm nitrate negative and a 35mm nitrate internegative.
Among the highlights are a restoration of Charles Vidor’s 1946 “Gilda” to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Columbia Pictures, with Tom Rothman, Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, attending. Wim Wenders will be on hand for a 40th anniversary screening of Palme d’Or winner “Paris, Texas,” while Faye Dunaway will be present for the screening of “Faye,” the first documentary about her life.
Ron Howard will present his documentary “Jim Henson Idea Man,” while Nanette Burstein brings the premiere of her documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”
See the full program of Cannes Classics below.
100 years of Columbia Pictures
“Gilda”
Charles Vidor
1946, 1h50, United States
A Sony Pictures Entertainment presentation. Restoration from the original 35mm nitrate negative and a 35mm nitrate internegative.
- 4/25/2024
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Though festivals and distributors were very excited to sell you a “final” film by Jean-Luc Godard, Fabrice Aragno made clear Phony Wars would not be the last transmission. Continuing Tupac-like beyond-the-grave releases, it’s been announced this year’s Cannes Film Festival will include in their “Events” sidebar the “ultimate film by Jean-Luc Godard,” Scenarios, which I cannot possibly summarize better than their official description and thus:
Scenarios is the title that Jean-Luc Godard chose to give to a final 18-minute gesture, made, literally, the day before his voluntary death. Furthermore, Jean-Luc Godard recorded a 34-minute film in which, mixing still images and moving images, halfway between reading and vision, he presented the Scenarios project .
Worth noting that Scenario was, with Phony Wars, one of two films with which Godard planned to end his career. A project made with single-digit hours left on Earth… well, one’s mind reels at the potential.
Scenarios is the title that Jean-Luc Godard chose to give to a final 18-minute gesture, made, literally, the day before his voluntary death. Furthermore, Jean-Luc Godard recorded a 34-minute film in which, mixing still images and moving images, halfway between reading and vision, he presented the Scenarios project .
Worth noting that Scenario was, with Phony Wars, one of two films with which Godard planned to end his career. A project made with single-digit hours left on Earth… well, one’s mind reels at the potential.
- 4/25/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The Cannes Film Festival’s Classics sidebar celebrates 20 years this year with a lineup of films including a 4K restoration of Wim Wenders’s Palme d’Or winning Paris, Texas, and a debut screening of Ron Howard’s 2024 doc Jim Henson Idea Man.
Wenders and Howard will be on the ground in Cannes, where they will present the films alongside Faye Dunaway, who will present the feature-long doc Faye about her life and career.
Other Cannes Classics screenings will include a 4k restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai to mark the late Japanese filmmaker’s 70th birthday while Frederick Wiseman will present his 1969 documentary Law And Order. Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman will also attend to screen Charles Vidor’s 1946 film Gilda as part of a 100-year celebration of Columbia Pictures.
The sidebar will also screen Scénario, an 18-minute film by Jean-Luc Godard. The project was...
Wenders and Howard will be on the ground in Cannes, where they will present the films alongside Faye Dunaway, who will present the feature-long doc Faye about her life and career.
Other Cannes Classics screenings will include a 4k restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai to mark the late Japanese filmmaker’s 70th birthday while Frederick Wiseman will present his 1969 documentary Law And Order. Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman will also attend to screen Charles Vidor’s 1946 film Gilda as part of a 100-year celebration of Columbia Pictures.
The sidebar will also screen Scénario, an 18-minute film by Jean-Luc Godard. The project was...
- 4/25/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Kino Lorber has bought all North American distribution rights to Jean-Luc Godard’s final short film “Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars.” The 20-minute short played at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will next screen at Toronto and New York film festivals.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical roll out for the title this fall, followed by a run at New York’s Film Forum in December, alongside Cyril Leuthy’s documentary “Godard Cinema.”
“Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars” was meant to be a feature film project but Godard died a year ago, at the age of 93, before finishing it. Godard had envisioned a complex mixed-media collage of history, politics and cinema through ideas, references and visuals.
Kino Lorber’s library already boasts several iconic films by Godard, including New Wave classics “A Married Woman,” “Alphaville,” and “La Chinoise,...
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical roll out for the title this fall, followed by a run at New York’s Film Forum in December, alongside Cyril Leuthy’s documentary “Godard Cinema.”
“Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars” was meant to be a feature film project but Godard died a year ago, at the age of 93, before finishing it. Godard had envisioned a complex mixed-media collage of history, politics and cinema through ideas, references and visuals.
Kino Lorber’s library already boasts several iconic films by Godard, including New Wave classics “A Married Woman,” “Alphaville,” and “La Chinoise,...
- 9/6/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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When you’re living in the bubble of daily cinema life during the Cannes Film Festival, it’s hard to know if the rest of the world cares about any of the movies you’ve seen over the past two weeks. The obvious marketing hooks for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” will take care of them. For everything else, who knows?
The last three Palme d’Or winner winners — “Triangle of Sadness,” “Titane,” and “Parasite” — leveraged their Cannes success into genuine cultural impact. The challenges in getting movies made and seen is higher than ever, but Cannes 2023 came ready for battle. Here are some of the most promising signs I found.
The French New Wave Isn’t Finished
For a generation of cinephiles, the death...
When you’re living in the bubble of daily cinema life during the Cannes Film Festival, it’s hard to know if the rest of the world cares about any of the movies you’ve seen over the past two weeks. The obvious marketing hooks for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” will take care of them. For everything else, who knows?
The last three Palme d’Or winner winners — “Triangle of Sadness,” “Titane,” and “Parasite” — leveraged their Cannes success into genuine cultural impact. The challenges in getting movies made and seen is higher than ever, but Cannes 2023 came ready for battle. Here are some of the most promising signs I found.
The French New Wave Isn’t Finished
For a generation of cinephiles, the death...
- 5/26/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Exclusive: International sales rights for late iconic director Jean-Luc Godard’s final work Trailer Of The Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars have been acquired by Goodfellas ahead of its world premiere in Cannes Classics on Sunday.
The 20-minute work was written and directed by Godard in collaboration with Jean-Paul Battaggia, Fabrice Aragno and Nicole Brenez.
Godard often transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs. This film follows that tradition and remains his ultimate gesture of cinema.
The filmmaker accompanied the trailer with the following statement: “Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by re-turning to the locations of past film shoots while keeping track of modern times.”
The work is billed as A Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and Vixens production, in coproduction with L’Atelier.
“Saint Laurent is honored to present a special work Jean-Luc Godard was working on before passing,...
The 20-minute work was written and directed by Godard in collaboration with Jean-Paul Battaggia, Fabrice Aragno and Nicole Brenez.
Godard often transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs. This film follows that tradition and remains his ultimate gesture of cinema.
The filmmaker accompanied the trailer with the following statement: “Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by re-turning to the locations of past film shoots while keeping track of modern times.”
The work is billed as A Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and Vixens production, in coproduction with L’Atelier.
“Saint Laurent is honored to present a special work Jean-Luc Godard was working on before passing,...
- 5/19/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2023 Cannes Film Festival will pay tribute to late auteur Jean-Luc Godard with a special screening of “Drôles de Guerres (Phoney Wars)” as a highlight of the program.
Godard died at age 91 in September 2022, and this year’s Cannes will screen “Contempt” and documentary “Godard by Godard” to commemorate the filmmaker as part of the Cannes Classics lineup. Godard’s final project is a 20-minute trailer for “Drôles de Guerres (Phoney Wars),” a film he never finished.
“Jean-Luc Godard often transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs,” an official Cannes statement read. “‘Phoney Wars’ follows in this tradition and will remain as the ultimate gesture of cinema.”
The description of “Phoney Wars” reads: “To no longer trust the billions of diktats of the alphabet to give back freedom to the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a true language by returning to the places of past shoots while taking into account the present stories.
Godard died at age 91 in September 2022, and this year’s Cannes will screen “Contempt” and documentary “Godard by Godard” to commemorate the filmmaker as part of the Cannes Classics lineup. Godard’s final project is a 20-minute trailer for “Drôles de Guerres (Phoney Wars),” a film he never finished.
“Jean-Luc Godard often transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs,” an official Cannes statement read. “‘Phoney Wars’ follows in this tradition and will remain as the ultimate gesture of cinema.”
The description of “Phoney Wars” reads: “To no longer trust the billions of diktats of the alphabet to give back freedom to the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a true language by returning to the places of past shoots while taking into account the present stories.
- 5/5/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
We’re now in the month of Cannes Film Festival 2023 and they have a few more surprises up their sleeves thanks to the announcement of their Cannes Classics lineup. After being heavily rumored, it’s now confirmed a posthumous film from the legendary Jean-Luc Godard will premiere at the festival, billed as “Trailer of the film that will never exist: Phony Wars” and clocking at 20 minutes. Described as “the ultimate gesture of cinema,” Godard wrote this accompanying text: “No longer trusting the billions of diktats of the alphabet to give back their freedom to the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a true language by returning to the places of past shootings, while taking into account the present stories.”
Also amongst the lineup is Room 999 featuring interviews with James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, and Alice Rohrwacher; a mini Ozo retro; Man Ray restorations scored...
Also amongst the lineup is Room 999 featuring interviews with James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, and Alice Rohrwacher; a mini Ozo retro; Man Ray restorations scored...
- 5/5/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
The Cannes Film Festival will pay tribute to iconic late director Jean-Luc Godard, following his death last September, with a trio of works in its Cannes Classic cinema heritage line-up.
A highlight of the homage to Godard, who died last year at 91, will be the world premiere of the 20-minute trailer he created for a film that will never get made: ‘Drôles de Guerres (Phoney Wars).
The 20-minute work is billed as A Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and Vixens production, in coproduction with L’Atelier.
“Jean-Luc Godard often transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs. Phoney Wars follows in this tradition and will remain as the ultimate gesture of cinema,” said the festival.
It quoted the text that accompanies the short work to give an indication of the director’s intention. It reads: “To no longer trust the billions of diktats of the alphabet to give back freedom to the incessant...
A highlight of the homage to Godard, who died last year at 91, will be the world premiere of the 20-minute trailer he created for a film that will never get made: ‘Drôles de Guerres (Phoney Wars).
The 20-minute work is billed as A Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and Vixens production, in coproduction with L’Atelier.
“Jean-Luc Godard often transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs. Phoney Wars follows in this tradition and will remain as the ultimate gesture of cinema,” said the festival.
It quoted the text that accompanies the short work to give an indication of the director’s intention. It reads: “To no longer trust the billions of diktats of the alphabet to give back freedom to the incessant...
- 5/5/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
In the six months since cinema lost its greatest pioneer, there has been much speculation as to the films Jean-Luc Godard left behind. Earlier this month there were reports that Funny Wars, a 20-minute short the French-Swiss director helmed before he passed, would premiere at Cannes Film Festival. While we’ll likely find out of that is indeed the case on April 13, when the lineup is unveiled, it certainly won’t be his last film.
In an interview with author Nicole Brenez, who has published a new book on Godard, she reveals to Critikat (via Jordan Cronk) that the director “planned, directed, and supervised several other [films]” before he passed. She noted the director’s close collaborators Fabrice Aragno and Jean-Paul Battaggia are “hard at work to finish them,” and revealed that beyond these films “we will also find many film treasures” from Godard.
Aside from Funny Wars, said to take...
In an interview with author Nicole Brenez, who has published a new book on Godard, she reveals to Critikat (via Jordan Cronk) that the director “planned, directed, and supervised several other [films]” before he passed. She noted the director’s close collaborators Fabrice Aragno and Jean-Paul Battaggia are “hard at work to finish them,” and revealed that beyond these films “we will also find many film treasures” from Godard.
Aside from Funny Wars, said to take...
- 3/28/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Hardly presumptuous to claim cinema is in a post-Godard era; perhaps only inaccurate to suggest we’ll ever be post-Godard. Case in point the rumors that Godard’s long-developing Funny Wars had at least been partially shot, if not outright completed, and today Indiewire informs us (for no discernible reason in some thinkpiece about The Weeknd) that the work––20 minutes––will premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, running May 16 to May 27.
Word is scant, of course: Indiewire (before opining why The Weeknd should rethink his film career or whatever) have heard Funny Wars is “a collage-like approach that blended fragments of images and text.” To what extent or means is our guess, now and probably after it’s seen. More substantial was a conversation Fabrice Aragno, Godard’s cinematographer and by all means right-hand man, had with Variety in 2021. During which he revealed recorded on 35mm, 16mm, and Super 8––the first black-and-white,...
Word is scant, of course: Indiewire (before opining why The Weeknd should rethink his film career or whatever) have heard Funny Wars is “a collage-like approach that blended fragments of images and text.” To what extent or means is our guess, now and probably after it’s seen. More substantial was a conversation Fabrice Aragno, Godard’s cinematographer and by all means right-hand man, had with Variety in 2021. During which he revealed recorded on 35mm, 16mm, and Super 8––the first black-and-white,...
- 3/5/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
This week brought troubling news of an actor calling the shots on his own project, but before we get into that subject for this week’s column, it’s worth acknowledging the auteurs around the corner. Cannes buzz is in the air, with reports of premieres for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and “Killer of the Flower Moon” hinting at plenty of Hollywood on the Croisette. There’s another movie expected in the lineup that won’t enthrall red-carpet gawkers, but should thrill true cinephiles: a 20-minute short directed by the late Jean-Luc Godard.
“Funny Wars” marks the last complete cinematic vision by the French New Wave legend before his assisted suicide last year, and sources say it’s locked in the lineup.
The “Funny Wars” premiere should provide a bittersweet salute to one of the most adventurous filmmakers in history. Like much of Godard’s late-period work,...
“Funny Wars” marks the last complete cinematic vision by the French New Wave legend before his assisted suicide last year, and sources say it’s locked in the lineup.
The “Funny Wars” premiere should provide a bittersweet salute to one of the most adventurous filmmakers in history. Like much of Godard’s late-period work,...
- 3/4/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard died in Switzerland this week at the age of 91. One of his last films was 2014’s “Goodbye to Language,” the 3D portrait of a relationship that starred actors Kamel Abdelli and Héloïse Godet. Here, Godet shares her memories from the set with IndieWire, along with some exclusive photos from her personal collection.
I remember, while we were shooting some scenes of “Goodbye to Language” in Jean-Luc Godard’s own house, the protocol had us enter through the backdoor, which they called the “entrance of the artists.” There, we discovered a cellar converted into an editing room, where his assistant and camera technician Fabrice Aragno worked every day, before and after shooting. He had to synchronize the footage captured by all five cameras.
When we heard Godard enter his house through the main door, with a big wrought-iron key, we joined him in his small living room.
I remember, while we were shooting some scenes of “Goodbye to Language” in Jean-Luc Godard’s own house, the protocol had us enter through the backdoor, which they called the “entrance of the artists.” There, we discovered a cellar converted into an editing room, where his assistant and camera technician Fabrice Aragno worked every day, before and after shooting. He had to synchronize the footage captured by all five cameras.
When we heard Godard enter his house through the main door, with a big wrought-iron key, we joined him in his small living room.
- 9/13/2022
- by Héloïse Godet
- Indiewire
Thanks to Twitter, we now really know what Jean-Luc Godard thinks about animals: They’re future filmgoers.
Berlinale tweeted a video of the famed auteur discussing his retrospective exhibition as part of the festival’s Sentiments, Signes, Passions, curated by Fabrice Aragno in collaboration with Godard. The exhibition screens Godard’s 2018 “Le livre d’image” as a “living projection” on 40 screens.
“What I would like is what I told you, is that in Berlin, since there are often wild boars in the city of Berlin, a feeder for wild boars should be placed under the screens,” Godard said.
He added, “The film, or something from the cinema, is like when you go into nature and see trees that have several branches. What [cinematographer] Fabrice Aragno does, it is each time a tree of the cinema. In Berlin it will be the second time. The first time was in Nyon. I hope...
Berlinale tweeted a video of the famed auteur discussing his retrospective exhibition as part of the festival’s Sentiments, Signes, Passions, curated by Fabrice Aragno in collaboration with Godard. The exhibition screens Godard’s 2018 “Le livre d’image” as a “living projection” on 40 screens.
“What I would like is what I told you, is that in Berlin, since there are often wild boars in the city of Berlin, a feeder for wild boars should be placed under the screens,” Godard said.
He added, “The film, or something from the cinema, is like when you go into nature and see trees that have several branches. What [cinematographer] Fabrice Aragno does, it is each time a tree of the cinema. In Berlin it will be the second time. The first time was in Nyon. I hope...
- 1/27/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
A long-gestating non-conventional documentary directed by Iranian multi-hyphenate Mitra Farahani centered around a conversation between Jean-Luc Godard and Iranian filmmaker and literary figure Ebrahim Golestan that took place via regular weekly email exchanges involving videos, images, aphorisms, and letters, is set to soon surface on the international festival circuit.
The film, called “See You Friday Robinson: A Film Unlike Any Other,” stems from Farahani’s desire to initiate and portray a dialogue between the French New Wave icon, who is now 90, and Golestan, a revered intellectual who is 98 and lives in the West Sussex village of Bolney, south of London. Golestan is considered an Iranian cinema pioneer and is known for the films “Brick and Mirror” (1965) and “The Secrets of the Treasure of the Jinn Valley (1974). He left Iran in 1975, settling in the U.K. and has focused entirely on his writing since then. The two men do not know each other personally.
The film, called “See You Friday Robinson: A Film Unlike Any Other,” stems from Farahani’s desire to initiate and portray a dialogue between the French New Wave icon, who is now 90, and Golestan, a revered intellectual who is 98 and lives in the West Sussex village of Bolney, south of London. Golestan is considered an Iranian cinema pioneer and is known for the films “Brick and Mirror” (1965) and “The Secrets of the Treasure of the Jinn Valley (1974). He left Iran in 1975, settling in the U.K. and has focused entirely on his writing since then. The two men do not know each other personally.
- 8/5/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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- 7/14/2021
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It was, of course, a shock to the cinematic system that Jean-Luc Godard—let’s see… film’s single most important living figure?—would retire after the completion of his films Funny Wars and Scenario. That it is neither unreasonable he’d retire (he’s 90) nor entirely realistic to expect both films will even come to light (he’s 90) says more or less everything.
Naturally, a new interview with Godard’s closest collaborator, cinematographer Fabrice Aragno, yielded intriguing information about the works and their progress. There’s almost too much in his interview with Variety, but let’s skip to the end: they might not be Godard’s swan song(s). Aragno is rather blunt in saying “Neither is designed to be his last film,” and whatever’s the claim now may not hold up in court over time. Or: “If it’s his last film, he’ll say it’s his last film,...
Naturally, a new interview with Godard’s closest collaborator, cinematographer Fabrice Aragno, yielded intriguing information about the works and their progress. There’s almost too much in his interview with Variety, but let’s skip to the end: they might not be Godard’s swan song(s). Aragno is rather blunt in saying “Neither is designed to be his last film,” and whatever’s the claim now may not hold up in court over time. Or: “If it’s his last film, he’ll say it’s his last film,...
- 7/12/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Fabrice Aragno is sitting at a desk in his studio in Lausanne, Switzerland, pouring over images of a lake in which the water and the sky meet in dramatic fashion.
The filmmaker and frequent Jean-Luc Godard collaborator is simultaneously preparing to pitch his feature directorial debut, aptly titled “Le Lac,” at Cinéfondation’s Atelier this week, while also carrying out secret tests for Godard’s final two films.
“I need to glue these images to scripts,” he says while rifling through photos, adding that packing his bags and tuxedo for Cannes will likely be a last minute affair.
Aragno knows that “Le Lac,” a film he describes as a “spectacle cinématographique” with very little dialogue or plot, could potentially be a hard sell elsewhere. However, when he arrives at the Cannes Film Festival, his plan is to simply “share my feelings” about the film, to share his “flame.”
Variety caught...
The filmmaker and frequent Jean-Luc Godard collaborator is simultaneously preparing to pitch his feature directorial debut, aptly titled “Le Lac,” at Cinéfondation’s Atelier this week, while also carrying out secret tests for Godard’s final two films.
“I need to glue these images to scripts,” he says while rifling through photos, adding that packing his bags and tuxedo for Cannes will likely be a last minute affair.
Aragno knows that “Le Lac,” a film he describes as a “spectacle cinématographique” with very little dialogue or plot, could potentially be a hard sell elsewhere. However, when he arrives at the Cannes Film Festival, his plan is to simply “share my feelings” about the film, to share his “flame.”
Variety caught...
- 7/9/2021
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Jean-Luc Godard at the 2018 press conference for The Image Book.From longtime collaborator Fabrice Aragno on Facebook comes word of a new Jean-Luc Godard project. We don't know much, but it appears that the movie will be shot on film, perhaps Godard's first since Notre Musique in 2004 and a shift from his 2018 digital essay film, The Image Book. Park Chan-wook's new film will be a romantic murder mystery starring Tang Wei and Park Hae-il (who previously starred in The Host), entitled Decision to Leave. The film is said to be the story of a police officer who suspects a dead man's wife of his murder. Recommended VIEWINGThe Wexner Center for the Arts' series Cinetracts '20 is now available for free online. Artists from around the world including Charles Burnett, Cauleen Smith, Tony Buba,...
- 10/14/2020
- MUBI
Lionel Baier, of Ecal University of Art and Design in Lausanne, talked to the legendary director for more than 90 minutes. Though not altogether new to the technology, legendary French director Jean-Luc Godard surprised the world on Tuesday when he appeared on Instagram Live, talking to Lionel Baier, head of the cinema department at Ecal University of Art and Design in Lausanne, the Swiss city where the director resides. Baier and Godard, together with frequent collaborator Fabrice Aragno, were all actually in the same room at Godard’s house, with Baier and Aragno wearing face masks, which the director remarked made them look “like figures in a James Ensor painting”. The long and wide-ranging conversation lasted over 90 minutes, with nearly 4,000 viewers watching at any given time. While most of the comments simply expressed gratitude for this rare opportunity to have such direct access to the mythical figure of cinema,...
Claire Denis, Petra Costa and Peter Mettler to give online masterclasses.
Swiss documentary festival Visions de Réel, which was to have taken place from April 24 to May 2 in the lakeside town of Nyon, has revealed details of the online format it has developed to replace the physical event which was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Visions du Réel 2020 will not take place at the Place du Réel, in the cinemas, in the tent and in the bar, in Nyon,” said artistic director Émilie Bujès, referring to the event’s traditional festival and industry hubs. “But it will resolutely be held on the internet,...
Swiss documentary festival Visions de Réel, which was to have taken place from April 24 to May 2 in the lakeside town of Nyon, has revealed details of the online format it has developed to replace the physical event which was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Visions du Réel 2020 will not take place at the Place du Réel, in the cinemas, in the tent and in the bar, in Nyon,” said artistic director Émilie Bujès, referring to the event’s traditional festival and industry hubs. “But it will resolutely be held on the internet,...
- 3/31/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Claire Denis, Petra Costa and Peter Mettler to give online masterclasses.
Swiss documentary festival Visions de Réel, which was to have taken place from April 24 to May 2 in the lakeside town of Nyon, has revealed details of the online format it has developed to replace the physical event which was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Visions du Réel 2020 will not take place at the Place du Réel, in the cinemas, in the tent and in the bar, in Nyon,” said artistic director Émilie Bujès, referring to the event’s traditional festival and industry hubs. “But it will resolutely be held on the internet,...
Swiss documentary festival Visions de Réel, which was to have taken place from April 24 to May 2 in the lakeside town of Nyon, has revealed details of the online format it has developed to replace the physical event which was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Visions du Réel 2020 will not take place at the Place du Réel, in the cinemas, in the tent and in the bar, in Nyon,” said artistic director Émilie Bujès, referring to the event’s traditional festival and industry hubs. “But it will resolutely be held on the internet,...
- 3/31/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Visions du Réel, a film festival in Nyon, Switzerland, has changed the format of its next edition to accommodate the restrictions imposed by the Swiss government in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
Originally planned to run from April 24 to May 2, the festival will now be a digital-only event held over a longer period, with much of its lineup made available online from April 17.
Émilie Bujès, artistic director of the event, said: “Visions du Réel 2020 will not take place at the Place du Réel, in the cinemas, in the tent and in the bar in Nyon. But it will resolutely be held on the internet, in almost all its generous diversity, and will visit the spectators at home, further expanding the possible territories.”
In redesigning the festival, its organizers have sought to remain true to its essential nature – defined by rigorous artistic standards and conviviality.
The new version includes open-access platforms...
Originally planned to run from April 24 to May 2, the festival will now be a digital-only event held over a longer period, with much of its lineup made available online from April 17.
Émilie Bujès, artistic director of the event, said: “Visions du Réel 2020 will not take place at the Place du Réel, in the cinemas, in the tent and in the bar in Nyon. But it will resolutely be held on the internet, in almost all its generous diversity, and will visit the spectators at home, further expanding the possible territories.”
In redesigning the festival, its organizers have sought to remain true to its essential nature – defined by rigorous artistic standards and conviviality.
The new version includes open-access platforms...
- 3/30/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Our first meeting with Godard took place in Rolle in May 2016.1 At that time, the idea for The Image Book had already taken shape: a four-part structure became six parts (the five "fingers" as a long introduction and the "hand" that includes them all), while the script contained many shots and texts that would be used in the film. The editing had hardly begun. In Godard's small, smoky editing room, we nevertheless had the chance to watch the first eleven minutes of the film—everything that been done up until then. During our second visit in March 2018, the film was almost finished. The room in which we talked (and where Zoé Bruneau watches a character from Fritz Lang's Metropolis in Goodbye to Language) has now been turned into a small screening room. This is where the first screenings of The Image Book take place, in conditions Godard judges to be the most appropriate.
- 1/22/2019
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSCharlie Chaplin in The Pilgrim (1923).Happy New Year! Thanks to the Sonny Bono Copyright Act, all copyrighted American works from 1923 have entered the public domain, legally allowing for re-publication and re-use. This includes Cecil B. DeMille's silent version of The Ten Commandments, and Charlie Chaplin's The Pilgrim.Two legends, directors Ringo Lam and Mrinal Sen, have passed away past week. Lam was a trailblazing member of the Hong Kong New Wave in the 1980s, while Mrinal Sen helped to usher in a new wave of filmmaking in India alongside Satyajit Ray. Recommended VIEWINGActor-comedian turned auteur Jordan Peele has swiftly produced his followup horror film to his unanimously celebrated Get Out. Here's the ambiguous yet stirring first trailer for Us.Janus Films have gracefully restored Jackie Chan's death defying Police Story films, in which he brilliantly stars,...
- 1/7/2019
- MUBI
In 2018 we've published 70 interviews whose subjects have ranged from old masters to emerging new voices, and including some unexpected conversations, including those with curators (Dave Kehr of the Museum of Modern Art), as well as archival finds (a 1971 talk with Jerry Lewis).Below you will find an index of our conversations throughout the year, listed in order of publication date.Blake Williams (Prototype)Samira Elagoz (Craigslist Allstars)F.J. Ossang (9 Fingers)Jerry LewisAndré Gil Mata (The Tree)Christian Petzold (Transit)Raoul Peck (Young Karl Marx)Ashley McKenzie (Werewolf)Penelope SpheerisTed Fendt (Classical Period)Dominik Graf (The Red Shadow)Blake Williams ("Stereo Visions")Arnaud Desplechin (Ismael's Ghosts)Ruth Beckermann (The Waldheim Waltz)Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias (Cocote)Esther GarrelPhilippe Garrel (Lover for a Day)Jonas MekasJohann Lurf (★)Karim Aïnouz (Central Airport Thf)Juliana Antunes (Baronesa)Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra (Birds of Passage)Wang Bing (Dead Souls)Donal Foreman...
- 12/27/2018
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe Academy has released its shortlist of nominees for nine categories, including Best Foreign-Language Film, Best Documentary Feature, and Best Original Score. Let the speculating, predicting, and betting begin! The latest issue of short story journal Zoetrope features a cover by guest designer David Lynch. His artist bio: "Born Missoula, Montana. Eagle Scout." Recommended VIEWINGThe USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive has uncovered and identified a 1898 silent film entitled Something Good—Negro Kiss, including possibly the earliest known depiction of "affection between a Black couple." The splendid U.S. trailer of Jean-Luc Godard's fierce new film, The Image Book, courtesy of Kino Lorber.Annapurna Pictures's first trailer for Richard Linklater's Where'd You Go, Bernadette contains quirky family fun, suburban dinner parties, and a fair share of criminal hijinks. Recommended READINGAlongside the overabundance of streaming services,...
- 12/19/2018
- MUBI
After a relatively fallow 2017, European sales companies at Busan’s Asian Film Market, which runs Oct. 6-9, appear to be headed back to the halcyon days of 2016, despite the damp weather conditions. Statistics from European Film Promotion (Efp), a constant presence at the market since 2006 via their Europe Umbrella business hub for European sales companies, tell the tale.Europeans Get Back to Business at the Asian Film Market
At the 2016 market, 27 European companies represented 105 films, of which 48, or 45.71%, were sold across Asia. These included “Night of a 1000 Hours,” sold by Germany’s Picture Tree Intl., and “Porto,” sold by Poland’s New Europe Film Sales. In 2017, 30 companies represented 119 films, of which 47, or 39.49%, were sold to Asian territories, including “Bpm (Beats Per Minute),” sold by France’s Playtime, and “The Insult,” repped by fellow French outfit Alpha Violet.
In 2018, reflecting what has been a strong year for European cinema, there are...
At the 2016 market, 27 European companies represented 105 films, of which 48, or 45.71%, were sold across Asia. These included “Night of a 1000 Hours,” sold by Germany’s Picture Tree Intl., and “Porto,” sold by Poland’s New Europe Film Sales. In 2017, 30 companies represented 119 films, of which 47, or 39.49%, were sold to Asian territories, including “Bpm (Beats Per Minute),” sold by France’s Playtime, and “The Insult,” repped by fellow French outfit Alpha Violet.
In 2018, reflecting what has been a strong year for European cinema, there are...
- 10/5/2018
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes — Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d’Or at the 71st Cannes Film Festival for his film “Shoplifters,” marking just the second time this century that an Asian film has claimed the festival’s top prize (the other being Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” in 2010). A moving portrait of a self-made family whose secret ultimately jeopardizes their ability to stay together, the widely praised drama represents Hore-eda’s fifth time in competition, making him one of the few veterans in a lineup weighted toward less established directors.
American director Spike Lee won the Grand Prix for his blaxploitation-styled anti-racism satire “BlacKkKlansman,” one of just two American films in the official competition. After accepting the prize “on behalf of the People’s Republic of Brooklyn, New York,” Lee told the press, “Cannes was the perfect launchpad for this film. I hope the film...
American director Spike Lee won the Grand Prix for his blaxploitation-styled anti-racism satire “BlacKkKlansman,” one of just two American films in the official competition. After accepting the prize “on behalf of the People’s Republic of Brooklyn, New York,” Lee told the press, “Cannes was the perfect launchpad for this film. I hope the film...
- 5/19/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Mubi has acquired Jean-Luc Godard’s “The Image Book” for the U.K. The movie played in competition at Cannes this year. The U.K. deal was signed with sales company Wild Bunch Films. Kino Lorber has already acquired North American rights.
In its Cannes review, Variety said the film premiered at the Festival “with a sense of momentousness…It felt as though we were getting the Godard bulletin on the state of the world.”
French New Wave icon Godard’s new film was produced by Fabrice Aragno of Casa Azul Films and Mitra Farahani from Ecran Noir Productions. The producers plan to create a traveling exhibition based on the film that will tour major cities.
Mubi is a curated streaming service that has a limited number of classic, indie, and festival movies that play on the platform. As a new film is added to its 30-strong lineup, another is removed.
In its Cannes review, Variety said the film premiered at the Festival “with a sense of momentousness…It felt as though we were getting the Godard bulletin on the state of the world.”
French New Wave icon Godard’s new film was produced by Fabrice Aragno of Casa Azul Films and Mitra Farahani from Ecran Noir Productions. The producers plan to create a traveling exhibition based on the film that will tour major cities.
Mubi is a curated streaming service that has a limited number of classic, indie, and festival movies that play on the platform. As a new film is added to its 30-strong lineup, another is removed.
- 5/18/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Mubi takes project’s UK theatrical and streaming rights.
Streaming service Mubi has secured a significant Cannes acquisition in the form of Jean-Luc Godard’s Competition title The Image Book (Le Livre D’Image).
The film, which premiered at the festival last week to strong reviews and also scored an impressive 3.0 rating on Screen’s Cannes jury grid, has had both its theatrical and streaming rights for the UK taken by Mubi.
The Image Book is an essay film examining the role of cinema in world history. The release will mark the Breathless director’s first UK theatrical roll-out in seven years,...
Streaming service Mubi has secured a significant Cannes acquisition in the form of Jean-Luc Godard’s Competition title The Image Book (Le Livre D’Image).
The film, which premiered at the festival last week to strong reviews and also scored an impressive 3.0 rating on Screen’s Cannes jury grid, has had both its theatrical and streaming rights for the UK taken by Mubi.
The Image Book is an essay film examining the role of cinema in world history. The release will mark the Breathless director’s first UK theatrical roll-out in seven years,...
- 5/17/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
In today’s film news roundup, Paul Feig and Neal Moritz are added to the Produced By Conference, a “Jumanji” double feature gets scheduled, and Jean-Luc Godard’s “The Image Book” gets bought.
Conference Additions
The Producers Guild of America has added Paul Feig and Neal Moritz as speakers at its 10th annual Produced By Conference, which will be held June 9 and 10 at Paramount Pictures Studios.
Moritz will be joining Jim Gianopulos in his headlining “Conversations With…” session. Additional speakers include Stephanie Allain, Ian Bryce, Donald DeLine, Tracey Edmonds, Lucy Fisher, Lynette Howell Taylor, James F. Lopez, Chris Moore, Ronald D. Moore, Mary Parent, Stacy Rukeyser, and Doug Wick.
The Produced By Conference will bring back its Mentoring Roundtables to give attendees a chance to ask questions about their own projects in development and learn in a more personalized, intimate setting with one-on-one feedback. No pitching is allowed — the roundtables...
Conference Additions
The Producers Guild of America has added Paul Feig and Neal Moritz as speakers at its 10th annual Produced By Conference, which will be held June 9 and 10 at Paramount Pictures Studios.
Moritz will be joining Jim Gianopulos in his headlining “Conversations With…” session. Additional speakers include Stephanie Allain, Ian Bryce, Donald DeLine, Tracey Edmonds, Lucy Fisher, Lynette Howell Taylor, James F. Lopez, Chris Moore, Ronald D. Moore, Mary Parent, Stacy Rukeyser, and Doug Wick.
The Produced By Conference will bring back its Mentoring Roundtables to give attendees a chance to ask questions about their own projects in development and learn in a more personalized, intimate setting with one-on-one feedback. No pitching is allowed — the roundtables...
- 5/14/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
As I type these words, a new Jean-Luc Godard film is minutes from premiering at the 71st Cannes Film Festival. General excitement around Le livre d’image (or just The Image Book) does not come close to equaling Goodbye to Language, but the prospect of a montage-based study of the Middle East that incorporates everything from Shakespeare to Michael Bay is, for me, immense. Godard must feel similarly about its possible paths, given news from collaborator Fabrice Aragno — whose ingenuity played as big a part as its director in bringing Goodbye to Language alive — that the film will be turned into an exhibit in New York, Paris, Madrid, and Singapore, courtesy production partners Casa Azul and Ecran Noir. [Variety]
Spread between 500 and 600 square meters, it “will break down the images of Godard’s film to deliver an interactive experience” described by Aragno as “a forest of images and sounds” not, in bold words,...
Spread between 500 and 600 square meters, it “will break down the images of Godard’s film to deliver an interactive experience” described by Aragno as “a forest of images and sounds” not, in bold words,...
- 5/11/2018
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard is set to adapt his latest film, “The Image Book,” which is competing at Cannes Film Festival into an exhibit in Paris, Madrid, New York and Singapore.
The roadshow tour is being produced by the team behind the film, Fabrice Aragno at Casa Azul and Mitra Farahani at Ecran Noir Productions.
Aragno told Variety that both Casa Azul and Ecran Noir Productions are currently in talks with the Beaubourg museum in Paris, Arte Reina Sofía in Paris, and the National Gallery in Singapore.
The installation will spread over 500 to 600 square meters and will break down the images of Godard’s film to deliver an interactive experience. “Those who will discover the exhibit will walk through a forest of images and sounds,” explained Aragno, who compared “The Image Book” to Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica.” “Except that ‘Guernica’ related to one historical chapter, whereas ‘The Image...
The roadshow tour is being produced by the team behind the film, Fabrice Aragno at Casa Azul and Mitra Farahani at Ecran Noir Productions.
Aragno told Variety that both Casa Azul and Ecran Noir Productions are currently in talks with the Beaubourg museum in Paris, Arte Reina Sofía in Paris, and the National Gallery in Singapore.
The installation will spread over 500 to 600 square meters and will break down the images of Godard’s film to deliver an interactive experience. “Those who will discover the exhibit will walk through a forest of images and sounds,” explained Aragno, who compared “The Image Book” to Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica.” “Except that ‘Guernica’ related to one historical chapter, whereas ‘The Image...
- 5/10/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Jonathan Rosenbaum talks with Fabrice Aragno about working with Jean-Luc Godard and with Oja Kodar about working with Orson Welles. He's also posted his essays on Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's Soft and Hard, on Frank Tashlin and on Fritz Lang's M. Also in today's roundup: interviews with David Wain, John Waters, Kim Novak and Nicolas Winding Refn; two books on Woody Allen; a new package of films by Patricio Guzmán; The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 40; an appreciation of Peter Bogdanovich's Texasville; Danny Boyle's confirmed that a sequel to Trainspotting is in the works—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 9/28/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Jonathan Rosenbaum talks with Fabrice Aragno about working with Jean-Luc Godard and with Oja Kodar about working with Orson Welles. He's also posted his essays on Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's Soft and Hard, on Frank Tashlin and on Fritz Lang's M. Also in today's roundup: interviews with David Wain, John Waters, Kim Novak and Nicolas Winding Refn; two books on Woody Allen; a new package of films by Patricio Guzmán; The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 40; an appreciation of Peter Bogdanovich's Texasville; Danny Boyle's confirmed that a sequel to Trainspotting is in the works—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 9/28/2015
- Keyframe
Message De Salutations: Prix Suisse / Remerciements / Mort Ou Vif by Jean-Luc Godard (world premiere 13.03.2015)[Message Of Greetings: Prix Suisse / My Thanks / Dead Or Alive] by Jean-Luc Godard (world premiere March 13th, 2015)On Friday, March 13th, 2015, in Geneva, Switzerland, Jean-Luc Godard was awarded the 2015 “Prix d’honneur du cinéma suisse” with its corresponding allotment of 30,000 Swiss francs (at present = €28189,46 Eur or $29,909.52 Usd), on the basis of being a “visionary filmmaker,” “a virtuoso of film-editing,” whose “avant-garde” works have done much to inspire the young. A remarkable laurel, given that Godard is, at 84, the greatest filmmaker in the history of the cinema since Renoir, and I can’t name another Swiss director besides Anne-Marie Miéville. Of course he didn’t attend, citing, for the ump-teenth time in so-many years, health reasons; regular right-hand-man / Dp / one-man technical wizard / Jlg-ambassador Fabrice Aragno appeared in Godard's stead to accept the award.Of course, the health reasons cited were only so evident as the 5-minute film* that Godard stars in,...
- 3/18/2015
- by Craig Keller
- MUBI
Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake leads the pack in this year’s International Cinephile Society Awards with nine nominations, while Xavier Dolan’s Mommy (a film considered a 2014 release but landed theatrically last month) places 2nd, with eight total noms. The Grand Budapest Hotel, Under the Skin and Boyhood all placed well and should effectively land wins in the multiple categories below. The winners of the 12th Ics Awards will be announced on the 20th. Here are the noms:
Picture
• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Goodbye to Language
• The Immigrant
• Inherent Vice
• Mommy
• Mr. Turner
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• Stranger by the Lake
• Two Days, One Night
• Under the Skin
Director
• Xavier Dolan – Mommy
• Jonathan Glazer – Under the Skin
• Jean-Luc Godard – Goodbye to Language
• Alain Guiraudie – Stranger by the Lake
• Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Film Not In The English Language
• Force Majeure
• A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night...
Picture
• Boyhood
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Goodbye to Language
• The Immigrant
• Inherent Vice
• Mommy
• Mr. Turner
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• Stranger by the Lake
• Two Days, One Night
• Under the Skin
Director
• Xavier Dolan – Mommy
• Jonathan Glazer – Under the Skin
• Jean-Luc Godard – Goodbye to Language
• Alain Guiraudie – Stranger by the Lake
• Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Film Not In The English Language
• Force Majeure
• A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night...
- 2/3/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Jean-Luc Godard's 39th film, the 3D "Goodbye to Language" was chosen as the Picture of the Year by the National Society of Film Critics. Oscar frontrunner, Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" was a runner-up alongside "Birdman" and "Mr. Turner."
But "Boyhood" received two awards including Best Director for Linklater and Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Arquette.
Here's the complete list of winners of the 2015 National Society of Film Critics:
Picture: .Goodbye to Language. (25)
Runners-up: .Boyhood. (24); .Birdman. and .Mr. Turner. (tie, 10)
Director: Richard Linklater, .Boyhood. (36)
Runners-up: Jean-Luc Godard, .Goodbye to Language. (17); Mike Leigh, .Mr. Turner. (12)
Actor: Timothy Spall, .Mr. Turner. (31)
Runners-up: Tom Hardy, .Locke. (10); Ralph Fiennes, .The Grand Budapest Hotel,. and Joaquin Phoenix, .Inherent Vice. (tie, 9)
Actress: Marion Cotillard, .The Immigrant. and .Two Days, One Night. (80)
Runners-up: Julianne Moore, .Still Alice. (35); Scarlett Johansson, .Lucy. and .Under the Skin. (21)
Supporting actor: J.K. Simmons, .Whiplash. (24)
Runners-up: Mark Ruffalo, .Foxcatcher. (21); Edward Norton, .Birdman. (16)
Supporting actress: Patricia Arquette,...
But "Boyhood" received two awards including Best Director for Linklater and Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Arquette.
Here's the complete list of winners of the 2015 National Society of Film Critics:
Picture: .Goodbye to Language. (25)
Runners-up: .Boyhood. (24); .Birdman. and .Mr. Turner. (tie, 10)
Director: Richard Linklater, .Boyhood. (36)
Runners-up: Jean-Luc Godard, .Goodbye to Language. (17); Mike Leigh, .Mr. Turner. (12)
Actor: Timothy Spall, .Mr. Turner. (31)
Runners-up: Tom Hardy, .Locke. (10); Ralph Fiennes, .The Grand Budapest Hotel,. and Joaquin Phoenix, .Inherent Vice. (tie, 9)
Actress: Marion Cotillard, .The Immigrant. and .Two Days, One Night. (80)
Runners-up: Julianne Moore, .Still Alice. (35); Scarlett Johansson, .Lucy. and .Under the Skin. (21)
Supporting actor: J.K. Simmons, .Whiplash. (24)
Runners-up: Mark Ruffalo, .Foxcatcher. (21); Edward Norton, .Birdman. (16)
Supporting actress: Patricia Arquette,...
- 1/5/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The National Society of Film Critics has always been an offbeat bunch, awarding prizes to more obscure films than flashier organizations like the Academy or the Hollywood Foreign Press. This year's crop of awards were no different, with the organization giving its top honor to an obscure indie film that most mainstream moviegoers probably never heard of.
"Goodbye to Language," an offbeat, 3-D movie from filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, was awarded Best Picture, beating out awards season favorite "Boyhood" by one vote. (Unlike most other organizations, the National Society of Film Critics releases its voting totals alongside its list of winners.)
Other winners selected by the society include Timothy Spall ("Mr. Turner") for Best Actor, Marion Cotillard ("The Immigrant" and "Two Days, One Night") for Best Actress, and Richard Linklater ("Boyhood") for Best Director. A partial list of winners, along with their vote tallies, is below; the full list is available here.
"Goodbye to Language," an offbeat, 3-D movie from filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, was awarded Best Picture, beating out awards season favorite "Boyhood" by one vote. (Unlike most other organizations, the National Society of Film Critics releases its voting totals alongside its list of winners.)
Other winners selected by the society include Timothy Spall ("Mr. Turner") for Best Actor, Marion Cotillard ("The Immigrant" and "Two Days, One Night") for Best Actress, and Richard Linklater ("Boyhood") for Best Director. A partial list of winners, along with their vote tallies, is below; the full list is available here.
- 1/5/2015
- by Katie Roberts
- Moviefone
The National Society of Film Critics awarded “Goodbye to Language” its top honor on Saturday, selecting the film as 2014’s Best Picture.
Iconic French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard directed the 3-D film, which was little seen in the United States — due, in part, to the scarcity of arthouse theaters equipped to show 3-D — and decidedly more experimental than award-season favorites “Birdman” and “Boyhood.” But “Boyhood,” Richard Linklater‘s coming-of-age drama, was a close runner-up in the Nsfc Best Picture competition, losing out by only a single point in the balloting. Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Birdman” placed a more distant third.
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Iconic French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard directed the 3-D film, which was little seen in the United States — due, in part, to the scarcity of arthouse theaters equipped to show 3-D — and decidedly more experimental than award-season favorites “Birdman” and “Boyhood.” But “Boyhood,” Richard Linklater‘s coming-of-age drama, was a close runner-up in the Nsfc Best Picture competition, losing out by only a single point in the balloting. Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Birdman” placed a more distant third.
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- 1/3/2015
- by Travis Reilly and Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The National Society Of Film Critics has voted Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language best picture of the year 2014.
The group’s 49th annual poll (January 3) at the Film Society Of Lincoln Center in New York also brought joy for best director Richard Linklater for Boyhood, best actor Timothy Spall for Mr. Turner and best actress Marion Cotillard for Two Days, One Night and The Immigrant.
The 59 members voted via a weighted ballot process, without nominations, on any film or performance that opened in the Us in 2014. Scrolls are sent to the winners.
Scott Foundas of Variety was elected to succeed David Sterritt as chairman for 2015. Liz Weis remains executive director.
Full list of winners including votes:
Best Picture
*1. Goodbye To Language 25 (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Boyhood 24 (Richard Linklater)
3. Birdman 10 (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
3. Mr. Turner 10 (Mike Leigh)
Best Director
*1. Richard Linklater 36 (Boyhood)
2. Jean-Luc Godard 17 (Goodbye To Language)
3. Mike Leigh 12 (Mr. Turner)
Best Non-fiction Film
*1. Citizenfour 56 (Laura Poitras)
2. National Gallery 19 (Frederick Wiseman...
The group’s 49th annual poll (January 3) at the Film Society Of Lincoln Center in New York also brought joy for best director Richard Linklater for Boyhood, best actor Timothy Spall for Mr. Turner and best actress Marion Cotillard for Two Days, One Night and The Immigrant.
The 59 members voted via a weighted ballot process, without nominations, on any film or performance that opened in the Us in 2014. Scrolls are sent to the winners.
Scott Foundas of Variety was elected to succeed David Sterritt as chairman for 2015. Liz Weis remains executive director.
Full list of winners including votes:
Best Picture
*1. Goodbye To Language 25 (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Boyhood 24 (Richard Linklater)
3. Birdman 10 (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
3. Mr. Turner 10 (Mike Leigh)
Best Director
*1. Richard Linklater 36 (Boyhood)
2. Jean-Luc Godard 17 (Goodbye To Language)
3. Mike Leigh 12 (Mr. Turner)
Best Non-fiction Film
*1. Citizenfour 56 (Laura Poitras)
2. National Gallery 19 (Frederick Wiseman...
- 1/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The latest issue of video magazine The Seventh Art talks to Atom Egoyan, Joe Berlinger, Evan Calder Williams, and Force Majeure director Ruben Östlund (see above for a 10 minute teaser for that interview). For his blog, David Bordwell shares further observations on Jean-Luc Godard's Adieu au langage:
"As far as I can tell, Godard hasn’t used the converging-lens method to create 3D during shooting. Instead of “toeing-in” his cameras, he set them so that the lenses are strictly parallel. He and his Dp Fabrice Aragno apparently relied on software to generate the startling 3D we see onscreen.
This reminds me that postproduction has long been a central aspect of Godard’s creative process. Of course he creates marvelous shots while filming, but ever since Breathless (À bout de souffle, 1960), when he yanked out frames from the middle of his shots, he has always made post-shooting work more than simply trimming and polishing.
"As far as I can tell, Godard hasn’t used the converging-lens method to create 3D during shooting. Instead of “toeing-in” his cameras, he set them so that the lenses are strictly parallel. He and his Dp Fabrice Aragno apparently relied on software to generate the startling 3D we see onscreen.
This reminds me that postproduction has long been a central aspect of Godard’s creative process. Of course he creates marvelous shots while filming, but ever since Breathless (À bout de souffle, 1960), when he yanked out frames from the middle of his shots, he has always made post-shooting work more than simply trimming and polishing.
- 11/5/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
L.M. Kit Carson, the Texan film legend best known for David Holzman's Diary, has passed away at the age of 73. For Filmmaker Magazine, Vadim Rizov gathers some valuable insight from Fabrice Aragno, the cinematographer of Jean-Luc Godard's Adieu au langage. Eric Hynes provides an excellent and authentic New Yorker take on Gangs of New York for Reverse Shot's Martin Scorsese Symposium. Above: we're disappointed to hear that Paul Schrader's latest film has been essentially taken out of his hands—in response the filmmaker has disowned the picture. For Film Comment, Violet Lucca interviews Ruben Östlund about his acclaimed film, Force majeure:
"Lucca: Like your previous work, Force Majeure is intended to foster a philosophical debate about what human behavior means or implies. Do you envision that being more of an internal process, or do you want people to talk it out?
ÖStlund: Yeah, in a group.
"Lucca: Like your previous work, Force Majeure is intended to foster a philosophical debate about what human behavior means or implies. Do you envision that being more of an internal process, or do you want people to talk it out?
ÖStlund: Yeah, in a group.
- 10/21/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Drawing from this year’s comprehensive theme “Imag(in)e Looking Long and Hard”, the eighth edition of Talents Sarajevo invited seventy emerging film professionals to reflect on the challenges of cinematography and to experiment with imagery. They were encouraged to maintain their gaze and to look long and hard around themselves in order to be able to distinguish the extraordinary from the ordinary. They were invited to play with visually appealing and striking solutions before reaching for narratively coherent and familiar ones.
This year, Talents Sarajevo celebrated insightful, daring and groundbreaking filmmaking and for the very first time, opened its doors to up-and-coming cinematographers. Recognized as film director’s main visual collaborator, the Dp occupies a central role in giving a film its unique visual context, As in previous editions, the workshop also included actors, directors, film critics, producers and screenwriters from the wider region of Southeast Europe and Southern Caucasus.
Apart from trainings made for specific groups of professionals, more sessions combined groups of two, three or more film professionals in order to encourage networking solutions and boost forthcoming collaborations up within the regional film industry. Networking opportunities were complemented with hands-on trainings, master classes and talks with established regional and international filmmakers, festival excursions and film screenings.
This year’s experts and lecturers included, among many others, Jean-Luc Godard’s cinematographer Fabrice Aragno; the French actress Bérénice Bejo; the Mexican actor, director and producer Gael García Bernal; film critics Dan Fainaru and Jean-Michel Frodon; the French director Michel Hazanavicius; the British director Mike Leigh; the American actress Melissa Leo; the director of the Rome Film Festival Marco Mueller; the Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó; the British director Michael Winterbottom and the Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic...
This year, Talents Sarajevo celebrated insightful, daring and groundbreaking filmmaking and for the very first time, opened its doors to up-and-coming cinematographers. Recognized as film director’s main visual collaborator, the Dp occupies a central role in giving a film its unique visual context, As in previous editions, the workshop also included actors, directors, film critics, producers and screenwriters from the wider region of Southeast Europe and Southern Caucasus.
Apart from trainings made for specific groups of professionals, more sessions combined groups of two, three or more film professionals in order to encourage networking solutions and boost forthcoming collaborations up within the regional film industry. Networking opportunities were complemented with hands-on trainings, master classes and talks with established regional and international filmmakers, festival excursions and film screenings.
This year’s experts and lecturers included, among many others, Jean-Luc Godard’s cinematographer Fabrice Aragno; the French actress Bérénice Bejo; the Mexican actor, director and producer Gael García Bernal; film critics Dan Fainaru and Jean-Michel Frodon; the French director Michel Hazanavicius; the British director Mike Leigh; the American actress Melissa Leo; the director of the Rome Film Festival Marco Mueller; the Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó; the British director Michael Winterbottom and the Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic...
- 9/2/2014
- by Tara Karajica
- Sydney's Buzz
Above: Pedro Costa's Horse Money
The Locarno Film Festival has announced their lineup for the 67th edition, taking place this August between the 6th and 16th. It speaks for itself, but, um, wow...
"Every film festival, be it small or large, claims to offer, if not an account of the state of things, then an updated map of the art form and the world it seeks to represent. This cartography should show both the major routes and the byways, along with essential places to visit and those that are more unusual. The Festival del film Locarno is no exception to the rule, and I think that looking through the program you will be able to distinguish the route map for this edition." — Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director
Above: Matías Piñeiro's The Princess of France
Concorso Internazionale (Official Competition)
A Blast (Syllas Tzoumerkas, Greece/Germany/Netherlands)
Alive (Jungbum Park, South Korea)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa,...
The Locarno Film Festival has announced their lineup for the 67th edition, taking place this August between the 6th and 16th. It speaks for itself, but, um, wow...
"Every film festival, be it small or large, claims to offer, if not an account of the state of things, then an updated map of the art form and the world it seeks to represent. This cartography should show both the major routes and the byways, along with essential places to visit and those that are more unusual. The Festival del film Locarno is no exception to the rule, and I think that looking through the program you will be able to distinguish the route map for this edition." — Carlo Chatrian, Artistic Director
Above: Matías Piñeiro's The Princess of France
Concorso Internazionale (Official Competition)
A Blast (Syllas Tzoumerkas, Greece/Germany/Netherlands)
Alive (Jungbum Park, South Korea)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa,...
- 7/25/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
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