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...equally popular with the honeymoon crowd and the cinq-à-sept set who want to avoid being spotted by relatives or friends in downtown hótels de passé. Such liaisons have already become part of the Gallic tradition; in Une Femme Mariée, Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 film, one love scene is filmed at an Orly hotel. For newlyweds, the nearby Orly Hilton provides free champagne; for transients, it has a special "day use" rate of $13 per room, as opposed to normal nightly rates of from $19 to $35 (obviously this is convenient...
...fixed proportions, he creates a symbiotic force between camera and car, physically drawing the car forward or in some cases impellingthe camera, depending on the shot. Given over to exercises, as in these scenes, Antonioni's tracking camera lacks moral force as one finds in Lang's films and Godard's, but refreshingly the control maintained robs the typical American highway sequence of its customary thrust and sense of car-tantamount-to-wild-per-sonal-liberation...
...nature and role of narrative strut??. G?dard's importance stems from his central role in this re? evaluation, for though his films ??? a critical allegiance to the forms and conventions of ??? wood cinema, they aspire to a free from plotlessness. Garnished in the trappings of traditional genres, Godard's works suppress ??? scenes? and their narratives lie ??? in between dramatic actions...
Donald Levy's Herostratus belongs to no such currently fashionable style as Godard's but harkens back to the furious experiment ??? of the twenties, attempting to rethink the problems of cinematic form from fresh, non-dramatic perspectives. As such it challenges our expectations of how movies should look and feel, answering certain questions in unusual ways while leaving others in abeyance. The critical yardsticks with which I am comfortable, dependent upon consistency of style and certain principles of dramatic construction, are no longer applicable, and I can't come to an evaluation with which I can feel at case...
...Godard said in an interview in 1967 that people still don't know how to hear and see a movie: Herostretus demands that consciousness at every moment. Sound is used extremely expressionistically; on a stairway we hear waves: in a studio, owls; when Max smashes his room the sound-track erupts in supra-realistic explosions. Often the developmental relation of the imagery relies on the sound track alone, as when the screen goes blank, or when a sound from a previous image returns with out its visual accompaniment (in the early morning. a close-up of Max alone...