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...Jean-Luc Godard has said that he would have been a writer had the medium of film not been available to him, but that film is simply the best way of expressing himself. Like Orson Welles, he is a prime exponent of the auteur theory of filmmaking, i.e., that the director is responsible for all aspects of his film...
Watching Pierrot Le Fou, a film that should be seen at least twice, is the best way of getting to know Godard's highly personal style: his revolutionary jump cuts, blue and red filters, characters set against a blank wall, references to his other films, and heavy use of literature. Above all, Godard makes the viewer acutely aware of the film-making process. His point here is to make the viewer acutely aware of the film-making process. His point here is to make the viewer realize that his is not an "art film," divorced from life, but is rather...
...meets the girl he had been in love with five years before (Anna Karina, Godard's former wife). She joins him in his desperate adventure and they return to her apartment to murder the guy she was staying with...
...very hip perspective on both; unlike so many films today that speak to the student, Greetings speak for them. It was made by anonymous young group, shot on location in New York City, with much of the dialogue improvised. In these respects it is like some of Godard's films, though it lacks 2Godard's ideological commitment...
...fiery young radical who last year led fellow students into the streets of Paris, is prancing around Rome engaging in more conventional pastimes. Now he makes the nightclub scene with a dazzling French blonde in tow, is rumored to be spending his days scripting a film for Jean-Luc Godard and working on a second book to complement his recently published Obsolete Communism. It's all so middle-class that he was recently boycotted at Rome University, where students accused him of "being out of touch." As the independent daily La Stampa put it: 'The problems...