Frau im Mond

[Ebiri1 at aol.com]

<< On Fritz Lang, though not, I think, on TRP: we in London are at this
 very moment able to wax epic with a spanking new print of Godard's Le
 Mepris, courtesy of the National Film Theatre. >>


Oh, you lucky bastards.  I have a question for you: What IS the correct
aspect ratio of that film?  It's one of my favorites, seen it a million
times, but have never seen it in a proper version (i.e. on a screen).  Gag...

Don't know if this has been discussed before, but Godard, especially in the
Sixties, was probably the closest thing the cinema had to a TRP, imo.  The
man could turn a gangster melodrama into screwball comedy, a musical, a
romantic tragedy, or a documentary -- all in the same movie...  Equally at
ease with different styles, and able to weave disparate strands together into
a unifiied work of art (unified, if anything, by its very disunity) --
anti-climactic and pastiche-climactic at the same time...  Good stuff.

Any thoughts?  Or am I beating a long dead horse here?

--Bilge Ebiri