Word: godard
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...cites another boy-girl story as an influence: “I really like the way Godard does banter, the way it’s both romantic and cynical. But it’s boring to say you like ‘Breathless.’ Its much cooler to say you like Czech New Wave...
...nagging sense that they were cranking out movies while their European brethren were hand-crafting films, had begun to forge a distinctive adult American cinema. Few thought in terms of box office megamillions. The idea was to earn enough to entice someone into financing your next picture. (Jean-Luc Godard had done this successfully in France in the 60s; Robert Altman adopted that model for his pioneering 70s works.) Most films by the most gifted Americans were present-day dramas that picked at some social scab until, in the last reel, it burst...
...mean that Godard, Bergman, Fellini, they were stretching film form. Adult movies now are adult in content: the equivalent of the Elia Kazan movies...
...area I?m interested in now is to go do some form-experimenting-to try and figure out different ways of telling movies. I grew up in the Godard, Fellini world and all that. To me that?s where my heart is. But I realize that?s not commercial. That?s why I can say I managed to do something that everybody wants to do-all those guys wanted to do-which was to get a pile of money so I can sort of waste it, burn through it. It?s like a government subsidy, which is what (the Europeans...
...three breakout foreign-language hits of the '90s--Cinema Paradiso and Il Postino from Italy and Like Water for Chocolate from Mexico--are nice romantic dramas about love and loss. They were brilliantly promoted by Miramax. But they didn't extend film language as Fellini's or Godard's films did; instead, they gave audiences that warm-puppy feeling. Any Disney movie can do that. So can many of the American independent films that have filled the old foreign-language slots at art houses. And you don't have to read subtitles...