Word: gorin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NORMAN W. GORIN...
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...
...traditional aesthetic criteria, Tout Va Bien probably fails. But indicting Godard on traditional grounds is rather like accusing Lenin of disturbing the peace. If traditional criteria are the only ones, then of course he fails, he intends to fail. There is nothing more to be said. But Godard and Gorin have lavished much ingenuity in puzzling out a new set of criteria, and here the presiding figure is neither Marx nor Mao but Bertolt Brecht...
Godard dates his political conversion quite specifically: the rebellion in the streets of Paris, May 1968, and his films before that date now qualify as bourgeois garbage. In the aftermath of May, Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin formed the Dziga-Vertov group, a revolutionary film collective (that for a long time had just those two members). Their early work consisted of a series of quasi-documentary polemics (Pravda, See You at Mao, Struggles in Italy) that managed to alienate most of the critics who had made Godard's reputation in the middle sixties...
...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...