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Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Aye, I'm well aware of what they did for cinema and I think I mentioned that before. Problem is, were they doing anything decent with it? It's all well and good using techniques and pushing the auteur theory but if you aren't doing anything interesting with it then it's just masturbation.

“I’ve never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual, and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He’s made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, Féminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mind-numbingly boring.”

Bergman said that. Whilst I'm not holding him as the fountain of knowledge it goes someway to explaining that just cos they were the critics darlings doesn't mean I'm going to like them.

ha ha ha ha

i agree with bergman! godard is fucking boring. he just lectures and lectures. i did like masculin féminin some though, mostly due to anna karina, but he’s more intellectual than an artist. couldn’t stand le weekend or pierrot le fou and don’t plan to see much of his stuff any further. film socialisme— spare me the lectures, thanks.

but truffault wasn’t godard and he was actually entertaining, and his innovations did serve a narrative and dramatic purpose, plus they made it possible for generations of independent filmmakers to tell their own stories, AND for hollywood to be reborn by a crop of fresh people like scorsese or coppola who commanded its industrial resources to great success.

look, i just googled “scorsese jules et jim” and blam, see:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/n...ese-influences

no books required (but there’s a book mentioned as a reference if you wanna read it)

in any case i (personally) did like jules et jim. and i fell in love with jeanne moreau when i saw her in this— who wouldn’t?— and so it was jules et jim et moi (le voyeur). i haven’t seen it in a long time though. but a story of how the idylls and idealism of youth can’t survive cynical old age and a rotting historical time? and told in such a refreshing way? sure, why not. and i love french endings. fuck happiness, ha ha ha.