Histoire Du Cinema

Jean-Luc Godard

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Cat No: 4651512

Release Date: 19 December 2008

Label: ECM Records

Packaging Type: Box Set

No of Units: 5

Barcode: 028946515129

Genres: Soundtracks Film Soundtrack

Description
This 5-CD set includes the complete soundtrack of the video series "Histoire(s) du cinema" (1988-1989), with Jean-Luc Godard's narration, the participation of Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, Anne-Marie MiÃ©ville and the voices of AndrÃ© Malraux, Ezra Pound, Paul Celan, and Alfred Hitchcock. Godard's montage also incorporates the music of Paul Hindemith, Arvo PÃ¤rt, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giya Kancheli, BÃ©la BartÃ³k, Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Coltrane, Leonard Cohen, Otis Redding, Dmitri Shostakovich, Anton Webern, Dino Saluzzi, David Darling, Ketil BjÃ¸rnstad and many more. Four extensive 3-language text books, with the entire transcript of the, an interview with Jean-Luc Godard by Jonathan Rosenbaum and more than 300 stills from "Histoire(s) du cinema" complete this edition.

The choice of music incorporated by Jean-Luc Godard is a reflection of his continuing association with Manfred Eicher, ECM's founder and producer. "Manfred began our relationship", the filmmaker has noted, "by sending me music. And after listening, I wrote to him and asked him to send me more records. I had the feeling that we were more or less in the same territory: he with sounds, me with images. The music he was sending made us feel like making a film, and I began to imagine things due to that kind of music. In fact, some of the records brought me to a picture called Nouvelle Vague and later other ones â€¦ Often the sounds gave us the feeling of being orphaned from images, or exiled from a land of images â€¦ it was like hearing music from films which didn't exist."
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