31 Days of Godard
It’s December and guess who’s birthday’s around. Yes, you guessed it right. Jean-Luc Godard! Being a fellow Saggitarius, I am honoured to try out the next marathon of the blog – For Ever Godard. Through it, I will be trying to write on 31 films of Godard – one for each day of December, the birth month of the director. With next month going to be the most hectic month of my “other” life, it is going to be a real challenge to update the blog daily. Let’s see where it goes…
The intention of these posts remains simple – Learning about Godard’s work never stops for me and I would like to convert this opportunity into a venture for knowing the man and his work – for it is evident that knowing the master’s films definitely requires good knowledge about Godard himself. I would also like to briefly tell what I got from each of the film that will be presented here. I hope this one is a fairly interactive one.
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The Seventh Art 
November 28, 2008 at 11:49 pm
“master’s films definitely requires good knowledge about Godard himself”
I agree with you Srikanth because for Godard ” Cinema” and ” Life” are one, there is no distinction between the personal ” I” and second person pronoun ” You”
Godard is one filmmaker who has personally inspired and influenced me a lot(and I know several other filmmakers, cinephile and film enthusiast)so looking forward to your marathon with Godard, and hoping that I can share two or three things I know about him and exchange few movies.
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November 29, 2008 at 8:23 am
Thanks, Nitesh. It is from people like you that I am hoping to learn more. Looking forward to your feedback.
P.S You said “influenced”. Do you make films too?
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November 29, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Bro, that’s a wonderful idea. Though I have watched only a few of his movies, it wasn’t difficult to be awestruck by the audacity of this French intellectual and the most iconic enfant terrible of the world of cinema – a man who wanted to alter the very idiom of the medium.
Be assured I’ll be a frequent visitor to this inspired blogathon of yours.
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November 29, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Thanks a lot Shubhajit. I’ll try to do justice.
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November 30, 2008 at 2:34 am
Godard, I think, teaches us all to be an honest cinephile, that, to be an eternal student. Hence, learning is a two-way process, so we both can learn a lot from each other.
No, I don’t make films, but yeah a growing cinephile cum critic, and criticism itself is a process of making films and vice-versa, that is a Godardian influence. Beside yeah I have earlier worked on amateur shorts (that taught a lot), docu and a one feature film. Hopefully, will make films in time to come. : )
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November 30, 2008 at 8:24 am
That’s great news. I would like to see at least 1 filmmaker who knows his trade. Presently cinema is contending with Politics for the profession with least qualification required.
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