Word: godards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early Soviet Union silent classics, the American, "Why We Fight" series during World War II. But films which have dealt with social process in a direct attempt to instruct or instigate change are few and mostly foreign. Think of Battle of Algiers The Confession If the films of Godard...
...that is both socially accurate and respectful of human dignity. So it's no wonder that American audiences have come to expect superficial cynicism as the acceptable tone of "progressive" American filmmaking efforts; leave Tolstoy to the comp lit classroom, leave the values of foreign filmmakers as diverse as Godard, Pontecorvo, or Costa-Gavras to their one-shot or arthouse audiences...
Contempt...or Godard, the master of pretension, with a big budget to play around with and a Moravia short story to demolish. With Pierrot le Fou, a self-serving and clumsy Godard comic-book romance, with a naive artist-gangster as the hero, and topical references sprinkled throughout to no great purpose. ORSON WELLES CINEMA TWO. Call...
Pauline Kael, LL.D., film critic, The New Yorker. Like Godard with his guillotine lens, she writes with an often acerbic pen, cutting through the can of films that threaten to dehumanize us. William McC. Martin Jr., LL.D., former Federal Reserve Board chairman...
Breathless, by Jean-Luc Godard. Winthrop JCR. 7:30. May 11. Free. Also at Norton Hall. Fogg Museum. 9 a.m., May 12. Free...