Jean-Luc Godard in his youthful days. Jean-Luc Godard solution for the Greek debt crisis: 'Therefore' copyright payments A few years ago, Nouvelle Vague filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, while plugging his Film Socialisme, chipped in with a surefire solution for the seemingly endless – and bottomless – Greek debt crisis. In July 2011, Godard told The Guardian's Fiachra Gibbons: The Greeks gave us logic. We owe them for that. It was Aristotle who came up with the big 'therefore'. As in, 'You don't love me any more, therefore ...' Or, 'I found you in bed with another man, therefore ...' We use this word millions of times, to make our most important decisions. It's about time we started paying for it. If every time we use the word therefore, we have to pay 10 euros to Greece, the crisis will be over in one day, and the Greeks will not have to sell the Parthenon to the Germans.
- 6/30/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Just in time for Halloween, Daniel Radcliffe gets some special powers and couple of appendages growing from his temples in Radius’ Horns, which will be this week’s biggest rollout among specialty newcomers. The title received a warm welcome at a Cinema Society event attended by its stars this week in New York. This week’s newbies are dominated by nonfiction fare, though with some exceptions. Kino Lorber is opening French/Swiss maestro Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language following a successful festival run. It has been critically acclaimed, and the company is expecting it to be a box office winner too. The 2014 Best Documentary winners from South by Southwest and Tribeca are going head-to-head in their theatrical debuts. Radius’ The Great Invisible (SXSW) opened in limited release Wednesday in an exclusively theatrical rollout, and The Orchard is bowing Point And Shoot (Tribeca) in a single NYC run. Submarine Deluxe...
- 10/31/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Welcome back to Cannes Check, In Contention's annual preview of the films in Competition at next month's Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off on May 14. Taking on different selections every day, we'll be examining what they're about, who's involved and what their chances are of snagging an award from Jane Campion's jury. Next up, the oldest director (with the shortest film) in the lineup: Jean-Luc Godard's "Goodbye to Language." The director: Jean-Luc Godard (French-Swiss, 83 years old). How to sum up Godard in a paragraph? One of the founding fathers of the French New Wave, and arguably its most persistently radical innovative member, with a career spanning seven decades, 39 feature films and an indeterminate number of creative phases. One of the sizable school of French filmmakers who had a formative stint as a critic for Cahiers du cinéma, Godard was born and educated in Paris -- the very city...
- 5/5/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Following his first 3D effort – the omnibus 3X3D which closed the Cannes Critics’ Week – the French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard‘s upcoming Adieu au language (Goodbye to Language) is apparently also shot in 3D. The film includes the main protagonists Héloise Godet, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevalier, Jessica Erickson and Zoe Bruneau and is expected to premiere at next year’s Cannes Film Festival. Little is known about Adieu au language‘s plot details, but according to one of the lead actors, Daniel Ludwig his role is about ‘a man who’s angry at his wife because she’s met another man on a park bench and they...
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- 7/5/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Far from his days as the hip director at the forefront of the French New Wave, for the better part of a few decades, Jean-Luc Godard has pretty much gone his own way. Hell, dude even gave the Academy the middle finger, essentially, turning down the Academy after they tried to give him an honorary Oscar a few years ago. But his adventurous spirit is still in full force, and the 82-year-old filmmaker has now embraced 3D, but of course, the results are not your average CGI explosion fest. Rather, his first feature using the format is "Adieu Au Language" ("Goodbye To Language") a movie that the director has previously described as being, "about a man and his wife who no longer speak the same language. The dog they take on walks then intervenes and speaks." Heloise Godet, Zoe Bruneau, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevalier and Jessica Erickson star in the feature,...
- 7/5/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Goodbye to Language (Adieu au langage)
Director/Writer: Jean-Luc Godard
U.S. Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Héloise Godet, Jessica Erickson and Kamel Abdeli
He has always been versatile with the form, questioned cinema’s shape and its role, so the curious such as myself wonder how Jean-Luc Godard will he challenge the 3D form and how he’ll appropriate it? Godard in 3D is something I definitely want to see, and apparently some buyers at a major studio think so to (aka the most bizarre pick-up of 2012).
Gist: The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The seasons pass. The man and woman meet again. The dog finds itself between them. The other is in one, the one is in the other and they are three. The former husband shatters everything. A...
Director/Writer: Jean-Luc Godard
U.S. Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Héloise Godet, Jessica Erickson and Kamel Abdeli
He has always been versatile with the form, questioned cinema’s shape and its role, so the curious such as myself wonder how Jean-Luc Godard will he challenge the 3D form and how he’ll appropriate it? Godard in 3D is something I definitely want to see, and apparently some buyers at a major studio think so to (aka the most bizarre pick-up of 2012).
Gist: The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The seasons pass. The man and woman meet again. The dog finds itself between them. The other is in one, the one is in the other and they are three. The former husband shatters everything. A...
- 1/14/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Jean-Luc Godard at your local multiplex? Well, not exactly. Although the French-born, Swiss-based Godard, 81, is currently working on a 3D movie project, it’s not a Transformers or a Men in Black sequel. Under the aegis of Wild Bunch, Godard’s first 3D foray is called Adieu au langage / Goodbye to Language. According to Screen International, Goodbye to Language "explores cinema’s search to reinvent itself with the language of 3D through a couple’s efforts to communicate to save their relationship." In the cast: Héloïse Godet, Zoé Bruneau, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevalier, and Jessica Erickson. Shooting, with Godard’s own cell-phone-based "rudimentary" 3D camera, should begin in the summer. In The New Yorker back in 2010, Godard was quoted as saying that he likes “when new techniques are introduced. Because it doesn’t have any rules yet.” (Really, 3D has been around for decades. Godard has never heard of Bwana Devil or House of Wax?...
- 5/29/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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