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...turned out 47 Charlie Chan features and serials. There were also such spin-offs as a comic strip, a radio show and a short-lived TV series. Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which is more accustomed to honoring film giants such as Jean-Luc Godard, Eisenstein and Billy Wilder, opened a Charlie Chan festival that will exhume 23 of his movies, most of which are familiar to late-show devotees...
...Germany's Hans Richter, 79, and his mastery of the motion-picture medium has long been acknowledged by directors from Fellini to Jean-Luc Godard. In recent years, Richter's unmoving pictures have also been gaining new attention, and they are featured in an exhibit of more than 80 Richter drawings, paintings, collages and films at Manhattan's Finch College Museum. Coupled with a smaller display at the Byron Gallery, the show provides a unique opportunity to see how, as the artist puts it, "film and painting overlap with modern art. Modern art gets its ultimate meaning...
...actors were Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, the director was Jean-Luc Godard, and the movie was Breathless, which in the eight years since its release has been generally accepted by critics as a landmark in movie history. It remains a typical example of France's nouvelle vague, with its theme of alienation, its air of improvisation, its lexicon of once-bizarre techniques-fast dissolves, ricocheting cuts, grainy camera work-that are now an accepted part of the moviemakers' craft...
...lisp). A vision of 1984, it evoked in 15 minutes a future world in which man is enslaved by computers and TV monitors. Although portentous in theme, THX impressed the judges with its technical virtuosity: Lucas shot his future-oriented film entirely in present-day Los Angeles-much as Jean-Luc Godard, one of his cinematic heroes, shot the nightmare-future Alphaville, entirely in contemporary Paris...
...script next went to Jean-Luc Godard. "He came over and said, 'Great, let's do it now,'" recalls Newman. "He wanted to leave right away for Texas and do the movie in two weeks." But the producers-two friends of Benton and Newman who had never done a movie before-procrastinated. The film was supposed to take place in summer, they argued, and this was winter. Godard abruptly cooled on the subject. "All they can think of is meteorology," he complained, and flew back to Paris. Exit Godard...