Word: godards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being cofeatured at the Brattle starting tomorrow; both are wonderful, though sometimes brutal, works, highly recommended for the artsy crowd. Persona, directed by Ingmar Bergman and staring Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson, is a complex psychological drama that's somewhat of a modern classic. Pierrot Le Fou, directed by Godard and starring Belmondo, is another heady film about psychic anguish, and as always, Belmondo is a joy to watch...
...usual explanation is that audiences won't support the old sort of programming any more. Box-office failures over the past couple of years seem to lend some support to this theory. It's hard to show Bresson, or even Godard, these days, according to St. George (who occasionally sneaks a good film that he thinks won't sell onto a double bill at the Brattle). But there's been a change in the attitude of the schedulers, too. Larry Jackson, manager of the Orson Welles, thinks the old schedules at the Welles were "academic," and over the last three...
...Godard. The chic attitude nowadays is to be down on Godard. He wasn't actually as important, self-appointed arbiters declare, as we thought he was during the '60s. A stylish innovator, perhaps, but without content. That's probably true for an early, exuberant fool-around film like Breathless, a quick-paced sort of Bogart parody. Pierrot Le Fou is more ambitious and more complex, however, and so the revisionists had better look twice before they go about their revising...
...Jean-Luc Godard's Masculine/Feminine Friday and Saturday, March...
...kind of an equivalent to what classical music types call warhorses--including Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, a great movie that critics have built up too much; The Hustler, which seems better and better ("This is Ames, Mister"..."Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool."...); a classic Godard. Everybody knows these films, you can hardly go wrong no matter what you see this week, and the real attraction of the week is Cagney on T.V., so I'll leave space for Farmer Briney. A few oddities worth checking: Bogart (with a taste for cheesecake, the source of which...