Word: godard
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...this, The Godson's elegiac mood and spacious sense of style reveal undeniably adept direction. Except for his Doulous - The Finger Man, an atmospheric thriller that appeared in 1964, Jean-Pierre Melville's work has been little seen in this country. He himself popped up in Godard's Breathless, where he played a celebrated film maker giving an interview to Jean Seberg. In France, in deed, he is celebrated for melancholy Gallic exercises in gangsterism, American style...
...library shelf, have been sparked into conflict. What has most heightened the level of debate in that arena is the appearance of the Philip Rahv-edited Modern Occasions. Formed when Rahv split with much of the rest of the staff of Partisan Review (who had begun to take to Godard, Warhol, and analysis of literature from a pop viewpoint) it is "radical in orientation"--it looks to root issues--yet pledges allegiance neither to the New Left nor the Old. It does not advance the idea that a successful political revolution can take place without an enunciation of means...
...early Soviet Union silent classics, the American, "Why We Fight" series during World War II. But films which have dealt with social process in a direct attempt to instruct or instigate change are few and mostly foreign. Think of Battle of Algiers The Confession If the films of Godard...
...that is both socially accurate and respectful of human dignity. So it's no wonder that American audiences have come to expect superficial cynicism as the acceptable tone of "progressive" American filmmaking efforts; leave Tolstoy to the comp lit classroom, leave the values of foreign filmmakers as diverse as Godard, Pontecorvo, or Costa-Gavras to their one-shot or arthouse audiences...
Contempt...or Godard, the master of pretension, with a big budget to play around with and a Moravia short story to demolish. With Pierrot le Fou, a self-serving and clumsy Godard comic-book romance, with a naive artist-gangster as the hero, and topical references sprinkled throughout to no great purpose. ORSON WELLES CINEMA TWO. Call...