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None of that. I'm not into protests but Mother is a saint. If Jean-Luc Godard ever does to Mother what HAIL MARY (Orson Welles) has done to the Virgin Mary, I'll be there at every showing...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Clues to Dewitt | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

Alfred Guzzetti, co-director of Living at Risk, quotes a Jean-Luc Godard saying that aptly sums up his new documentary film. "One should never aim to be a political filmmaker," Godard remarked, "but instead one should make films politically...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Guzzetti's Risk | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...Subway, Luc Besson's retarded new film about crime and punishment in the Parisian underground, is everything you'd expect from the post-Diva school of French, filmmaking: lettuce-crisp photography, a plot no less difficult to follow than the average Jacobean tragedy, plenty of MTV ear-and-eye candy, a handsome hero, a tongue-in-chic heroine, and beaucoup world-weary supporting characters who walk around with Arc de Triomphe-sized chips on their shoulders...

Author: By Jonathan S. Steuer, | Title: Sub-Intelligent | 11/23/1985 | See Source »

Looking ahead to future productions, Golan announced the signing, on a Carlton Hotel napkin, of aging Enfant Terrible Jean-Luc Godard to direct a modern version of King Lear in Hollywood, perhaps with Marlon Brando as Lear and Woody Allen as the fool. (No, Golan admitted, the two stars had not even been approached to appear in the film -- but then again, they hadn't said no.) In any case, Godard by now should be accustomed to negative responses. His new film, a handsome, typically perverse antidrama called Detective, was booed at ; its gala screening, and as he was about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Haggling, Honors and Hype | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

DIED. Jeanne Deckers, fiftyish, former Dominican Sister Luc-Gabrielle who, as Belgium's "Singing Nun," became an unlikely international pop star of the 1960s with her 1963 No. 1 hit Dominique, a 2 million seller, as well as other songs whose treacly lyrics were redeemed by her catchy melodies and high, pure voice; by her own hand (she and her female roommate took an overdose of barbiturates); in Wavre, Belgium. Deckers left her order in 1966 to pursue success in the secular world, but it had already passed her by; the home she set up for autistic children recently closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 15, 1985 | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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