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...Ono’s films are presented more faithfully—and, considering that most of her other works are readily “imagined” in the comfort of your dorm-room, they constitute the best reason for visiting the show. In the age of Bergman and Godard, Ono was once again at the forefront of cinematic experimentation, taking the medium to new levels of abstraction to revolutionize the way we see. The highlight here is “Film No. 13 (Fly)” (1970), in which a woman’s naked body is transformed...
...cigarette lighter in Strangers on a Train is more memorable than the image of Cézanne's apple, French director Jean-Luc Godard wrote, it's because Hitchcock was "the greatest creator of forms of the 20th century, and it's forms that tell us finally what lies at the bottom of things." Forms were Hitchcock's fetish, and he was a master at etching an image into his audience's memory. Movie fans will immediately recognize the show's small gold lighter with the initials A.G. engraved around a tennis racket as being from Strangers, and the smashed...
...Jean-Luc Godard is a mere 70, but he has been playing the role of the crotchety hermit-sage for decades. His Elogie de l'amour (In Praise of Love) is in two parts - the first, in black-and-white, a notebook of visual and verbal provocations. ("The question isn't whether man will survive but whether he deserves to.") The second part, shot digitally in carnival colors, concerns an old couple whose distant past as members of the French Resistance a Hollywood producer wants to turn into a film. This is an expression of Godard's distrust of Steven...
...Drink Scotch and watch several Jean-Luc Godard films from his unwatchable Maoist period...
...Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless launches cinema's New Wave...