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A sumptuously filmed tale of imagination and ingenuity in rural India as a young boy falls in love with cinema. Highly recommended and viewable on All 4.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/last-film-show

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhello_Show

I shall be breaking out the Jean-Luc Godard DVDs over the next few nights, now that the great man has chosen to exit:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/13/jean-luc-godard-chose-to-end-l...

There aren't many film-makers who could match Godard's incredibly intense run of masterpiece after masterpiece through the 1960s: Breathless, Contempt, Alphaville, Pierrot le Fou and Weekend are among the best movies ever made, for me .

Yes definitely going for a film night when the nights draw in and raise a glass of vin rouge

I struggled with the lengthy forcefulness of making his points in Weekend at times (especially the  traffic jam section), although I admired the intent...Stewart Lee gets me in the same way at times in some of his stand-up. The very short plot summary in the Wikipedia link says it all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_(1967_film)

If you spot any tribute showings of his best films give us a heads up.

I just watched Promising Young Woman, a film I'd never heard of, algorithmic recommendation.

Completely blew my mind. It's astonishing! Now one of my favourite films of all time.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620292/?ref_=tt_urv

Yes, great films* - those are probably my JLG favourites

A special JLG edition of the BFI’s magazine, Sight and Sound is scheduled for 3 October

R4’s Last Word to include a tribute - available online after today’s broadcast, beginning at 4pm:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001c6x9 Jean-Luc Godard, Barbara Ehrenreich, [...]
Jean-Luc Godard
Born 3 December 1930; died 13 September 2022 aged 91.
Last Word spoke to film historian, curator and broadcaster Ian Christie and to Professor of Modern French Literature and Film James Williams.

* Breathless, Contempt (Le Mépris) & Pierrot le fou are included in critics' polls of the 100 greatest films:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time (13, =21, & =42)
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20181029-the-100-greatest-foreign-langu...

I hope there’ll be some on C4 / BBC, although I thought there might’ve been screenings last year, after Jean-Paul Belmondo (the lead in several) died ...

It looks as though quite a few can be rented cheaply from the BFI*, who recommend Breathless as a good starting point for the earlier ones:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/where-begin-jean-luc-godard-early-stuff

* https://player.bfi.org.uk/search/rentals?q=Godard&availability=1