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...Montmartre printing plant once each fortnight. There they seize and confiscate every issue of La Cause they can find. But the sly old iconoclast long ago found a secret printing press to publish about 5,000 copies. On publication day, Sartre and a few friends (including Film Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Louis Malle, and his longtime companion, Simone de Beauvoir) pick up the papers, transport them to a side street near St.-Germain-des-Prés, and begin to peddle them. Then the police arrest everyone giving away, selling or reading the paper. Everyone, that is, except prominent...
...JEAN-LUC GODARD'S recent tour was a showpiece for America's critical and political intelligence. Look, he thinks he's a revolutionary yet no worker understands his films, the national magazines said. Look, he thinks he's a revolutionary yet he can't reach the masses, the leftist newspapers said. Aw, he's just another French intellectual. Aww, he's bourgeois. Carl Oglesby summed it all up. He walked out of Lowell Lecture Hall while Godard was speaking. "He's escapist," Carl said...
...JUST A FEW months ago Jean-Luc Godard leaned into the future to answer a criticism of his past...
...Samantha. The films themselves ranged from underground polemics to sleek Hollywood productions. Jean-Luc Godard, in the epicenter of the revolution as always, offered West Wind, written in part by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. The film has its practical side: there are detailed descriptions of how to make gasoline bombs, fuses and timers. From the other side of the Atlantic came M.A.S.H., Woodstock, and a film still unreleased in the U.S., The Strawberry Statement...
...Jean-Luc Godard faces off with rock, drugs and the black revolution in Sympathy for the Devil; the result is pretty much a stalemate. The film is fragmented, delirious and didactic, sometimes to the point of stupor. But it displays the incontestable energy and stylistic daring that have made Godard the cinema's foremost pop essayist...