Word: godard
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...that resembles the director and shares as his defense against the world the same vast resignation and distancing. Bergman devises his own special "alienation effect," with the actors speaking to the camera about what sort of person each character "is," as if they are universal givens. Whereas Brecht and Godard use the technique of actors speaking as themselves to remind the audience that it witnesses art as distinguished from life, Bergman attempts the opposite effect-to minimize the consideration of his stereotypes as isolated individuals, and to imply a higher reality, that the spectacle goes beyond mere portrayal, that...
POLITICS, like everything else, begin at home. Bellocchio's China is Near proposes that politics never leave home either. A transitional political film, somewhere short of where Godard cinemarxism makes its break, it is an anti-allegory, a catalogue of Bellocchio's ideological...
...questions, asked of Godard and one of his co-workers, reflected that the American student movement must be at least ten years behind the new French revolution. We had thought of ourselves as revolutionaries because we could apply some of Marx and a little Lenin to the world situation as reported to us by the White Corporate Press, because we weren't afraid to throw bricks anymore, because we were tired of individualism and exploitation on some levels, because the gullibility gap between our parents and ourselves had reached its illogical extreme...
...years Godard has been redefining, re-evaluating, re-applying Marxist-Leninism-Maoism, black liberation, women's liberation as have many other French "progressives" (Sartre, Genet, Fanon, De Bouvier, Marcuse). Godard himself always try to ask the most relevant questions at that stage of the movement which he is recording. He obscures the line between information and propaganda, between content and form...
...Godard would point his finger at the "Academy Awards" and re-em-phasize Vertov's disgust. A former French individualist, Godard is now a member of a film collective "where we are all directors, actors, actresses, cameraman or camera-women." The collective is named for Vertov. It decides spontaneously what to shoot and devotes itself to experimentation and self-criticism. It acts on Godard's off quoted assumption that "In order to become an intellectual revolutionary, it is necessary to give up being an intellectual." The collective members have not become scholars of ancient revolutions but rather what Stokeley Carmichael...