I didn't know Seán McLoughlin was an Icelandic name, you learn something every day.

Yes, a couple of "the hype from Cannes was positive" in the article isn't quite the reports I remember.

The TV license strictly speaking is just for the BBC, but effectively gives you access to the freeview channels, and you have to pay it if you own a TV.
Cable (or more commonly satellite) is anything from 20 a month to a lot more if you add all the extras and premium channels.
But you can get a subscription covering TV,…

I thought there would no longer be home video reviews, is this an exception because of the cinema release or will there still be one now and then for important releases?

Maybe check out Pravda or Keep Your Right Up, but his post-Weekend stuff is definitely not for everyone (for the record, I didn't care much for 2 Or 3 Things I Know About Her when I saw it but love movies from all parts of his career).

I thought so to. But every writing by or about him indicates he was completely sincere. He presented the film to the Chinese embassy and was devastated when they thought the film was a piss-take.
One of the screenings I saw was accompanied by news footage and interviews from the time, there is nothing in what he said…

Yes, Truffaut replied to Godard's small note with a pages long letter with grievances going back to almost ten years back.
Without context it looks way out of proportion.

That's interesting. I never investigated Truffaut properly (neither have I read the book), when I do I'll try to keep that in mind.

I even love his full-on Maoist period. His revolutionary spirit led him to create a truly revolutionary form (he criticised Chinese films for being politically correct but formally reactionary and wanted to create a cinema that combined the two). It looks a lot like wankery and is clearly not for everyone, but made…

It was probably similar enough then.
The first time I saw it was on an IMAX sat far too much on the side, the combination of his 3D experimentation with non-optimal seating, far too big screen and 3D glasses on top of my regular glasses gave me a splitting headache.

You probably already know, but not having seen it in 3D is not so different from not having seen it.

No one would attack his early stuff, but in France you hear the line that he ended making the same type of films he made his name attacking every so often

I thought it was great and deserving of a cinema visit, it didn't quite make my top ten last year, but I still had it above The Assassin, The Witch, Mad Max Fury Road, or Cosmos. If it was a 2016 film for me it would currently be at number 2 for the year.
It was amazingly moving, if you liked The Son's Room (which I…

Thank you. Digging a bit deeper, the libraries in the next borough have them. I haven't been there in a long time but should still have a card.

What's on my phone only

Thank you.
The books aren't at my library apparently (I'm in the UK), I'll still try starting with the fourth one at some point.

A couple of film related books.
La Cinéphilie by Antoine de Baecque which advertises itself as a history of cinephilia but is not quite as comprehensive. Effectively a series of articles repurposed from academic papers, chapters were devoted to specific critics, George Sadoul, Roger Tailleur, Serge Daney, or events,…

I somehow ended with the fourth volume on my shelves, is it essential to have read the first three beforehand?

If you want to see one of the resulting films: https://m.youtube.com/watch…
It's the communist version of Godzillla.

She had moved to France for a couple of years and spent a lot of time with her family. However they left Paris at the beginning of the year and she'll likely act in more stuff now.