{"id":21999,"date":"2022-09-17T19:06:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T18:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=21999"},"modified":"2022-09-17T19:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T18:06:01","slug":"weekend-links-639","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2022\/09\/17\/weekend-links-639\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 639"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Japanese poster for Alphaville (1965).<\/em><\/p>\n

Peter Bogdanovich: I think we’d better have your thoughts on Godard.<\/p>\n

Orson Welles: Well, since you’re so very firm about it. He\u2019s the definitive influence<\/em> if not really the first film artist of this last decade, and his gifts as a director are enormous. I just can\u2019t take him very seriously as a thinker<\/em>\u2014and that\u2019s where we seem to differ, because he<\/em> does. His message is what he cares about these days, and, like most movie messages, it could be written on the head of a pin. But what’s so admirable about him is his marvellous contempt for the machinery of movies and even movies themselves\u2014a kind of anarchistic, nihilistic contempt for the medium\u2014which, when he\u2019s at his best and most vigorous, is very exciting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 RIP JLG<\/a>. I was watching Alphaville<\/em> again just two weeks ago after a DVD turned up in the local charity shop. Still the only Godard film I like 100% but “liking” seems beside the point. His influence today is everywhere, so fully absorbed into the language of cinema that people barely notice it.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “The things that cause my gaze to linger are usually the portraits or landscapes that spark a feeling of unease, disquiet and discomfort. A shadow amongst the summer trees, a lurking silhouette reflected in a perfect blue iris, a vibrant flower in the early stages of decay.” S. Elizabeth<\/a> talking to Beautiful Bizarre about her new book, The Art of Darkness: A Treasury of the Morbid, Melancholic and Macabre<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Allow John Waters (again) to dictate your film viewing with a Letterboxd list<\/a> of his favourite films, based on comments in his writings and interviews. On the subject of Godard, Waters’ Crackpot<\/em> book contains a whole chapter about Hail Mary<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Astor\u2019s Electrical Future: Iwan Rhys Morus<\/a> explores a vision of the year 2000 recounted in A Journey in Other Worlds<\/em> (1894), a “scientific romance” by John Jacob Astor IV, with illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Strange Attractor has announced a Kickstarter campaign to fund the publication of an Austin Osman Spare Tarot deck<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Wormwoodiana: The Parrot, the Unicorn and the Golden Dragon: Some 17th Century Booksellers’ Signs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Bandcamp: Andy Thomas on Chris Watson<\/a>‘s post-Cabaret Voltaire career in nature recordings.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A new outlet for cinematic obscurities: Radiance Films<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Alphaville<\/em><\/a> (1978) by Klaus Schulze | Alphaville<\/em><\/a> (1979) by The Monochrome Set | Alphaville<\/em><\/a> (1999) by Scanner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japanese poster for Alphaville (1965). Peter Bogdanovich: I think we’d better have your thoughts on Godard. Orson Welles: Well, since you’re so very firm about it. He\u2019s the definitive influence if not really the first film artist of this last decade, and his gifts as a director are enormous. I just can\u2019t take him very … Continue reading “Weekend links 639”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 639","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,7,48,3,16,44,20],"tags":[11243,2469,150,1609,12445,6794,6463,12444,1812,6306,762,2868,1852,8497,98,552,2520],"class_list":["post-21999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-film","category-illustrators","category-music","category-occult","category-painting","category-science-fiction","tag-andy-thomas","tag-austin-osman-spare","tag-cabaret-voltaire","tag-chris-watson","tag-daniel-carter-beard","tag-iwan-rhys-morus","tag-jean-luc-godard","tag-john-jacob-astor-iv","tag-john-waters","tag-klaus-schulze","tag-orson-welles","tag-peter-bogdanovich","tag-s-elizabeth","tag-scanner-musician","tag-strange-attractor","tag-tarot","tag-the-monochrome-set"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5IP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}