The trailer for Afterimages has been completed and is online.
The film, which was shot in March 2010 in Fife, Scotland, was made for about £1,000.
You can see the trailer here.
The trailer for Afterimages has been completed and is online.
The film, which was shot in March 2010 in Fife, Scotland, was made for about £1,000.
You can see the trailer here.
En Attendant Godard has a page on the Internet Movie Database.
The rating of the film currently is at a somewhat low 3.1 out of 10 – with only seven votes so far… Perhaps this reflects the difficulty of the film, or it might be that I clicked on 0 by mistake one time while looking at it and hoping to give it 10 stars. Maybe this will rise in time. It’s not a new version of The Room that we have made, after all.
You can see the IMDb entry here.
Bill White of the Seattle Post Globe has reviewed En Attendant Godard.
White expresses some issues that the film is not really about Samuel Beckett – but overall finds himself getting into the low budget ethos of the film and endorsing it.
Although offline now, the link to the review was/is here.
En Attendant Godard has been selected as one of the films to play on the opening weekend of the new ArtsEmerson Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
Playing alongside films by Jean-Luc Godard and Fritz Lang, the screening is a true honour for the film and its makers.
Details of the screening can be found here.
En Attendant Godard has played at the prestigious NorthWestFilmForum in Seattle.
Matthew Holtmeier introduced the screening, which took place thanks to the great help of Adam Sekuler.
Details of the screening can be found here.
Prestigious film academic Dina Iordanova has mentioned En Attendant Godard in one of her blog posts.
The full post can be seen here.
En Attendant Godard played twice at CPH PIX 2010, including a screening at the prestigious Cinemateket.
The film was well received.
Here is an interview with William Brown, actors Tom Maine and Hannah Croft, and cinematographer Tom Maine (being uncharacteristically quiet) at the Cinemateket screening:
And here is what the Festival Guidebook said about the film:
One has to pay close attention if one hopes to capture the many references to the new wave icon Jean-Luc Godard in William Brown’s humorous tribute to the French film director, who already in 1967 declared that film was dead – and who has since continued undauntedly to revolutionize its formal language from the margins. And even if some knowledge about the French director would not be a disadvantage, it is far from obligatory. Like a tour de force through the French director’s collected works, Brown has created a story, which is as hard-boiled as it is unrestrained, about the loners Alex and Annie, who set out to find Godard, and suddenly have a double homicide and a ménage à trois on their conscience. En attendant Godard is a funny tribute to one of the biggest geniuses of film history, and it also shows how one can make use film as film criticism – without in any way needing to be hyper-intellectual. ‘All you need is a girl and a gun’, Godard famously said about making films. With his impressive zero budget debut William Brown both pays tribute to and corrects his master – and subtly underlines what we perhaps already knew from the beginning, that all we really need is a girl and Godard.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, the critic whom Jean-Luc Godard described as the most important writer on film since André Bazin, has included En Attendant Godard among his Top Five Films of 2009 in Sight & Sound magazine.
Rosenbaum describes the film thus:
This nervy, brand new feature is an excellent work of Godard criticism (with glancing look-ins at Resnais, Haneke and Cassavetes) that goes beyond detailed pastiche to forge a creative application of 1960s and early ’70s Godard across a tour through portions of western Europe. An inquiry, in short, into how Godard’s example might inform and apply to contemporary film-making.
To read the full poll, click here.
Cinema without Organs has reviewed En Attendant Godard.
Read the review here.