Word: bourgeoise
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JEAN-LUC GODARD'S recent tour was a showpiece for America's critical and political intelligence. Look, he thinks he's a revolutionary yet no worker understands his films, the national magazines said. Look, he thinks he's a revolutionary yet he can't reach the masses, the leftist newspapers...
WIND FROM THE EAST is an incredibly rich and suggestive work, both for those enamored of Godard's explorations and those generally hostile to his films, and I can only hope to touch on one or two ideas here. Stylistically the most striking features of East are its few shots...
From this, one can see why the recent films of the Dziga Vertoy Group are so dependent on text, text unexplained (hence unconstrained) by the visuals-unseen narrators. Images alone, or images whose sound source is identified (synchronous sound) are potentially, or in Godard's eyes, invariably, reactionary. They are...
An aesthetics too ashamed to show its face in discussions of the novel has long held sway in theories of the cinema. Writers like Kracauer and Bazin have elaborated value systems whose central equation comes whole from the nineteenth-century bourgeois novel tradition. Godard fights alone the arts' last battle...
BOURGEOIS morality is certainly not a hot commercial item these days-at least not when it's treated explicitly. For all the miles of moralizing in recent commercial films, I can't recall a single foot attempting to explore the subject of morality itself. And this is, of course, understandable...