The results of Roger Koza’s annual LA INTERNACIONAL CINÉFILA film poll have been published.
It’s always interesting to see how film programmers, curators and historians rate the year’s best films. Some of the films that made the top ten include Albert Serra’s “Pacifiction,” David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” and Jordan Peele’s “Nope.”
The individual ballots are quite fascinating as well. Eclectic French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie believes “Don’t Worry Darling” is one of the best movies of the year.
However I’d like to more specifically zero in on Cinémathèque Française curator Nicole Brenez‘s top ten which includes Jean-Luc Godard‘s “Drôles de Guerres” (Funny Wars). Take note, Brenda was a close friend of the late French filmmaker.
We know that prior to his death in early fall, Godard was working on two films: “Scénario” and “Funny Wars.” In October, during her MoMA installation, Artist Mitra Farahani was slyly credited as the producer of “Scénario.”
All the details that we know about these final two JLG films come from Godard’s closest collaborator, cinematographer Fabrice Aragno.
According to Aragno, “Funny Wars” was shot on 35mm, 16mm, and Super 8—35mm shot black-and-white, the other two color—while “Scénario” appears “more in a classic video style with some Super-8 images, not with 35mm.”
Aragno additionally stated that Godard specifically wanted to go back to his origins. “He said you know this Chris Marker film “La Jetée”? Maybe we can do something like that”.
Is Jean-Luc Godard going to have two posthumous films premiering at Cannes this coming May?
The short version: "Woman Unknown" was a compromise. The jury deadlocked over "Possible Love" and "NAZA," not able to com to terms, fell back on their #3, May el-Toukhy's film.