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 Verfasst am: 20 Apr 2009 06:21 Titel: #481+482: 'Made in U.S.A.' + '2 or 3 Things I know about...' |
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#481
MADE IN USA
With its giddily complex noir plot and color-drenched widescreen images, Made in U.S.A was a final burst of exuberance from Jean-Luc Godard’s early sixties barrage of delirious movie-movies. Yet this chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of consumerism—featuring Anna Karina as the most brightly dressed private investigator in film history, rummaging through an intricate plot for a former lover who might have been assassinated—also points toward the more political cinema that would come to define Godard. Featuring characters with names such as Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara, David Goodis, and Doris Mizoguchi, and appearances by a slapstick Jean-Pierre Léaud and a sweetly singing Marianne Faithfull, this piece of pop art is like a Looney Tunes rendition of The Big Sleep gone New Wave.
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Interviews with stars Anna Karina and Lászlo Szábó
- A video piece on the personal and the political in Made in U.S.A. and 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, featuring Godard biographers Richard Brody and Colin MacCabe
- A visual essay cataloguing the multiple references in the film
- Original and rerelease theatrical trailers
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic J. Hoberman
#482
2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER
In 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle), Jean-Luc Godard beckons us ever closer, literally whispering in our ears as narrator. About what? Money, sex, fashion, the city, love, language, war: in a word, everything. Considered by many to be among the legendary French filmmaker’s finest achievements, the film takes as its ostensible subject the daily life of Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady), a housewife from the Paris suburbs who prostitutes herself for extra money. Yet this is only a template for Godard to spin off into provocative philosophical tangents and gorgeous images. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her is perhaps Godard’s most revelatory look at consumer culture, shot in ravishing widescreen color by Raoul Coutard.
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Archival television interviews: the first featuring actress Marina Vlady on the set of the film, the second with Jean-Luc Godard engaged in debate with a government official on the subject of prostitution
- New video interview with Godard friend Antoine Bourseiller
- A visual essay cataloguing the multiple references in the film
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by Sasha Frere-Jones
Dass Criterion diese beiden Filme back to back veröffentlicht spiegelt ja den berühmten Produktionsprozess der beiden Filme. Godard drehte beide Filme dicht hintereinander. Manche Quellen sprechen sogar fälschlicherweise davon, dass Godard immer vormittags MADE IN USA und nachmittags 2 OR 3 THINGS gedreht hätte.
2 OR 3 THINGS ist natürlich die bedeutende Zäsur in Godards Werk, der erste ausgepfeilte Weg in Richtung Essayismus, während MADE IN USA, eigentlich ein Gefallen an seinen Produzenten, Godards letzte 60er-typische Genremeditation werden sollte. Ich mag beide Filme unheimlich gern und freue mich, sie bald erwerben zu können. Nur die Cover, die kitzeln mich noch nicht so recht... |
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