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There was recently a link on a highly trafficked movie site to another site’s list of the top foreign films of all time. Nothing about the list was anything new, basic Film 101 titles like RULES OF THE GAME, BREATHLESS and 8 ½. What was of note about the story was that the writer who linked to it openly stated that he had never seen any of the films on the list. While I had to applaud the writer’s...
I was just reading about Jean Luc Godard, I hadn’t know that he studied anthropology in college. His early films definitely show the influence or sensitivity to this interest. The life on the street that is in the background of his films, it captures a moment in time , a particular point in a society’s [...]
"Films are the only things by which to look inside people, and that's why people are so fond of movies and why they'll never die." An excerpt of the infamous ten minute tracking shot (and opening) for Jean-Luc Godard's 1967...
Filmed in 1986, Meetin’ WA is a short (26 minute) film that not many have seen. What you get is Godard, one of the driving forces behind La Nouvelle Vague, in conversation with Woody Allen. The trademark Godard approach to film, the expected dose of Woody Allen neuroses - they’re all there. Hat tip to [...] ShareThis
Meetin’ WA (1986) by Tomsutpen Thanks to Matt Prigge, I’ve spent the past 26 minutes watching Meetin’ WA, a 26-minute film about Woody Allen, shot in New York by Jean-Luc Godard. A good portion of the short is dedicated to a fairly formal, almost junket-style interview, with Godard asking the questions, sometimes with the help of a [...]
The answer to the question at the end of the article is"yes". Chris Petit in the Guardian: Godard wrote his own epitaph early, in Alphaville (1965): "You will suffer a fate worse than death. You will become a legend." There...
Whether you’ve seen all of his films or none of them, if you are a fan of modern cinema, your movie viewing has almost certainly been influenced in one way or another by the work of French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, one of the key figures of the Nouvelle Vague school of filmmaking, known also as [...]
Don't get in the car! But the fateful decision of an ambitious screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) to let his young wife (Brigitte Bardot) ride in a red Alfa with a lecherous movie producer (Jack Palance) bodes poorly for their marriage. Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 classic Contempt is about many thin...
To the Editor: Related (July 13, 2008) Reading Stephanie Zacharek’s review of “Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of ”(July 13) made me feel like I was in the scene from “Annie Hall” where someone in line at a movie theater drones on about how indulgent the later Fellini films are. It’s beyond fashionable to love Godard’s ’60s work and then roll your eyes and lament the great artist’s decline into...
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Why has the NY Times published two reviews of Richard Brody’s Jean-Luc Godard bio Everything is Cinema ––less than two weeks apart, and two months after the book hit store shelves? Are film critics really so lacking in ways to fill their time that the Times has taken pity and allowed them just publish whatever at their leisure? I know, I know––too far. I retract. It just seems odd that the paper would...
