headtax (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

godard remains one of the best of all time. and this is among the best of his works - in my opinion - beyond lovely

elisavictoria (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

anna karina so pretttyyyy

erixoff (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Anna KARINE looks like Ash in Avalon (from Mamaoru Ooshi) ;-)Thanx for the vid, Alphaville is one of my favourite movies ever.

goback3spaces (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What about Ingmar Bergman? I first saw PERSONA in 1982, age 15, and I feel that this experience changed my life more than any other single film viewing.

Boudosaved (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Mizoguchi, Ozu, Kurosawa and several others are excellent. Sansho the Bailiff is one of my favorites but so is Ugetsu by Mizoguchi.

DonFarshido (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

and btw, when we're talking about the greatest directors of all time (this is of course subjective and our knowledge differs, so this can go on and on), and you mentioned Teshigahara (who afaik was also a favourite of Tarkovsky's), what about the great japanese directors in general? If one would ask me about the greatest, I would tend to say Mizoguchi, and if I would have to pick the one film which I believe is able to turn the world upside down, it would be "Sansho Dayu".

DonFarshido (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I tend to agree as well. But I would also say that cinematic poetry is not something which is necessarily achieved by cinematic extravaganza - Chaplin and Keaton are great poets and offer us a deep understanding of the world through a language which is distinctly their own and a world created by it which as well is distinctly their own. Avantgarde-filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub called Chaplin the greatest editor of all time (!), and Bresson himself felt more close to him than to anybody else.

flowersforcaligula (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Is there anywhere I can get the transcript of this scene in French? Thanks.

laoula (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It is a pirate bay full of sharks and people like to copy everthing overthere from the finest perfumes to the repertoire movies. There is a Taipan who rules everything overthere. You could maybe read James Clavell's trilogy about this place. Very page turning books.I thought it was the place you mentioned where I could find a copy of Alphaville - that I could find nowhere else...

cuddlyable3 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Where on earth is Taipanville?