Word: bendit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FRENCH NEW WAVE lost its steam in the mid-sixties, when the experiments of the early part of the decade began to turn into repetition on the one hand and polemic on the other. Chabrol churned out Chabrols and Truffaut, Truffauts. Daniel Cohn-Bendit gave Godard politics. No one gave Resnais money. This same vacuum which so facilitated the ascension of Eric Rohmer seems likely to do similarly for Alain Tanner. But like Rohmer. Tanner at his moment of success is no fresh young talent. He is a middle-aged Swiss with a varied career behind him that includes apprenticeship...
...Wind from the East, co-written by Godard and Danny Cohn-Bendit, has three sections. The first is a kind of Third World Western in which we are presented with seven episodes in class war: strike, choosing of a delegate, the militating of active minorities, an assembly in which the composing of the rest of the film is discussed, repression, an active strike followed by the introduction of a police state. The second part is an extension of the ongoing criticisms of the first; the narrator says: "Okay, from a real movement you made a film...
...Samantha. The films themselves ranged from underground polemics to sleek Hollywood productions. Jean-Luc Godard, in the epicenter of the revolution as always, offered West Wind, written in part by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. The film has its practical side: there are detailed descriptions of how to make gasoline bombs, fuses and timers. From the other side of the Atlantic came M.A.S.H., Woodstock, and a film still unreleased in the U.S., The Strawberry Statement...
THOUGH Cohn-Bendit's enrage's left few professors unscathed, they often fired their heaviest artillery at Crozier, who found himself to the right of everybody in the "reddest" department at Nanterre and probably all of France. Taking Crozier's reserved admiration for the American bureaucratic system as evidence of his pro-establishment and technocratic bias, the revolutionary students denounced him and taunted: "Mr. Crozier, is the American style of bureaucratic organization useful in Vietnam? Is it efficacious for liquidating the Vietnamese...