Word: godards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...COUNTER cutting-edges of creative forces defining film essence, Stan Brakhage and Jean-Luc Godard have catalyzed complementary film movements. While Godard has brought to bear the history of abstract intellection in vivisecting the codes and conventions of bourgeois narrative film-making, Stan Brakhage has trans substantiated the history of abstract expressionism in creating an answer to the basic question "What is cinema?" Although academic film communities have identified with the analytical "specular text" -- the examining, form-destroying discourses -- of Godard and sentimentally embraced the "naive texts" of nostalgic cultural mythology, for example formula movies of unrestricted genres, Brakhage...
...Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 7:30, Agnes Varda, Le Bonheur, 9:30. May 14: Eric Rohmer, La Collectionneuse, 7:30, My Night at Maud's, 9:30. May 15: Phillipe De Broca, Cartouche, with Claudia Cardinale and Jean-Paul Belmondo, 7:30, Love Game, 9:30. May 16: Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless, 7:30, Contempt, 9:30. $2 per night, $1 per film, series ticket $10 for 10 events at Holyoke Center Ticket Office...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, The Elusive Corporal by Jean Renoir (1962) May 3, 8 p.m., $1. I Am Somebody, by Madeline Anderson. Red Squad, by the Pacific Street Cooperative, Letter to Jane, by Godard and Gorin, May 6, 8 p.m., free (sponsored by Institute of Politics...
...Godard has been playing out the same little drama recently. Once, the more he damned the bourgeoisie, the more bourgeois intellectuals adored him. Now, he has at last earned the antagonism of bourgeois critics, and proudly he points to the general condemnation of Tout Va Bien. But the politics of self-flagellation can go only so far. If you will use the bourgeois's guns, why not use his critics? And why not a plot convention...
...Godard has grown vulnerable recently. He is no longer an object of fashion. In fact, he is now the victim of a new fashion of critical hard-boiledness that fears being put-on more than anything else. It may be that he will soon redescend into private political fantasies and pass out of our attention altogether. In any case, it is more than likely that his present experiments won't succeed; most experiments don't. But I suppose that's what is finally most to admire in Godard: not his path-breaking successes, but his willingness to fail...