Word: godards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Savior. Jean-Luc Godard considers the film the beginning of his deep political involvement in issues of production and class struggle. Whatever concrete ideas he may hold, however, are lost in the groping opacity of the experimental style that controls the film...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH. "The Girl and Her Trust" and "A, Temporary Truce" by D.W. Griffith and "Western History" by Stan Brakhage, "Nostalgia" by Hollis Frampton and "Running Shadow" by Robert Fulton. Feb. 8, 7:30, $1. Vladimir and Rosa by the Dziga Vertov Group (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin) Feb. 11, 7:30, free (sponsored by the Institute of Politics...
Like such otherwise di verse works as Godard's Contempt and Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, The Spider's Stratagem concerns the workings of myth, the complicity of fancy and legend in history. The screenplay is an extrapolation from a short fiction by Jorge Borges, Theme of the Traitor and Hero, in which a historical researcher, investigating the death of his great-grandfather, a political martyr, discovers that the man actually traduced his confederates...
Simon: Are there any young film-makers that you particularly like? I hope you don't like Godard...
...beyond Sontag. He is much clearer than she, to begin with, in his framework of a meditation on the numbers one and two. He explores the film as a perfectly realized experiment, the Ulysses of the cinema, and, putting scholarship before pleasure, even admits that there are influences from Godard. In the Persona essay, even more than in the other three, Simon's presentation is helped along by his editors' useful choice of stills, many in sequences, which clarify important scenes and give a feeling for the marvelous texture of Sven Nykvist's cinematography...