Should I get this set
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fran%C3%A7ois-Truffaut-Collection-DVD/dp/B00OP9CPUA/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1448375815&sr=1-2&keywords=truffaut+box+sets
or this one
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jean-Luc-Godard-Film-Ultimate-Collection/dp/B0019GJ40G/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1448375869&sr=1-1&keywords=godard+box+set
Goddard v Truffaut
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Goddard v Truffaut
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Re: Goddard v Truffaut
The Godard.
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Re: Goddard v Truffaut
Get both, but Godard has always excited me more. He's just more cinematic, even if his iconoclasm can be terribly self-indulgent.
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Re: Goddard v Truffaut
Lennon or McCartney. I'd say the Godard too, because the messages are clear and thought-provoking. I get about a hundred ideas any time I see one of his films. Both have great films though, plus I admit I don't know all the movies in either box.
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Re: Goddard v Truffaut
Fuck em, get a scorese box set instead. You'll get a bit of both as well.
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Re: Goddard v Truffaut
The Modernist wrote: his iconoclasm can be terribly self-indulgent.
Indubitably.
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Re: Goddard v Truffaut
Love 'em both, of course - but Godard's truly classic period only lasted from '60 - '65 or so (opinions vary, natch), after which he crawled up his own anal canal and has never been seen since. I'm not necessarily commenting on the boxes (I never even looked at your links), just telling you my general view on the directors. Truffaut was still making great movies after that.
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Re: Goddard v Truffaut
Truffaut was OK.
Never saw a Godard movie I didn't walk out on. Bereft of wit and humanity, sterile claptrap.
At least, that's what I thought in the 1960s, when I saw them. Weekend I remember as a real piece of shit.
Never saw a Godard movie I didn't walk out on. Bereft of wit and humanity, sterile claptrap.
At least, that's what I thought in the 1960s, when I saw them. Weekend I remember as a real piece of shit.
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Re: Goddard v Truffaut
Matt Wilson wrote:Godard crawled up his own anal canal
That can be said of so many artistes, some of whose journeys are worth following.
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Re: Goddard v Truffaut
I'd rather watch a Truffaut film from the '70s than a Godard one. I won't follow his anal journey though, but you're welcome to.