Jean-Luc Godard - Histoire du Cinema (5CD)

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 Mi�ville and the voices of Andr� Malraux, Ezra Pound, Paul Celan, and Alfred Hitchcock. Godard's montage also incorporates the music of Paul Hindemith, Arvo P�rt, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giya Kancheli, B�la Bart�k, Franz Schubert, Igor Stravinsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Coltrane, Leonard Cohen, Otis Redding, Dmitri Shostakovich, Anton Webern, Dino Saluzzi, David Darling, Ketil Bj�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 � Often the sounds gave us the feeling of being orphaned from images, or exiled from a land of images � it was like hearing music from films which didn't exist.