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...closing scenes of Jean-Luc Godard??s “Le Mépris,” Camille—played by the iconic sixties starlet Brigitte Bardot—abandons her husband for the narcissistic, almost ghoulish American film producer Jeremy Prokosch, played by Jack Palance. Bardot, in a wide-brimmed hat and large black sunglasses that recall Jackie Kennedy, displays a cold yet alluring ambivalence toward her piggish new lover. They exchange brief words, casual affections, but barely understand one another—Bardot’s character speaks no English, Palance’s hardly...
...part of “In the Near Future” by Sharon Hayes, one of six works in a Carpenter Center exhibition entitled “Two or Three Things I Know About Her.” The show, up through April 6, was inspired by Jean-Luc Godard??s influential 1966 film, “Two or Three Things I Know About Her.” Each of the featured artists—Moyra Davey, Sharon Hayes, K8 Hardy, Wynne Greenwood, and Ulrike Muller—take a contemporary feminist approach to exploring...
...entertainment but also thinking.” “Film can think in a way: it lets us think and it brings us to thinking,” he continued. He also paid homage to his predecessors in the French New Wave. “When I saw Godard??s first film, I understand that films were not only stories or dreams,” he said. “Films help us to think, to understand the world, to discover the rest of the world, to hear other languages to travel to other cultures, societies...
...jours,” places French cinematic masterworks in their cultural and historical context. The to-die-for syllabus includes Jean Renoir’s brilliant and hilarious class comedy “The Rules of the Game,” Bunuel’s surrealist shorts, Godard??s flawless “Breathless,” and Truffaut’s classic “The 400 Blows.” We hear the class is relatively painless, though it is taught in French. Parlez-vous anglais? Non! A new offering, FC 85, “Japan...
...several White Stripes album liner notes, and his intractable commitment to analog recording technology has proven the bane of many a record producer. Jarmusch plays into Jack’s atavistic tendencies by shooting the video in Super 8 stock, giving it the look and feel of one of Godard??s “Nouvelle Vague” films of 1960’s. Like the French New Wave films that it emulates, Jarmusch’s video also lacks discernible plot and strong characterization—it consists of scenes of The Raconteurs rocking...