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...final work of the concert, and thus the final work of the entire Monday night series, was Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire Op 21, (1912). Set to rather morbid poetry by Albert Giraud, the work exerted a curious kind of fascination on the audience--except those Philistines who apparently could not take it and left in the middle. The work's success owes in no small part to the performers, particularly conductor Jacques-Louis Monod, who made eminent sense out of music that is all too easily incomprehensible, and "narrator" Bethany Beardslee whose negotiation of all the weirdities of Schoenberg...
...excellent Godard films shown, "Masculine Feminine," a violent and genuinely witty film about young people in Paris, was most popular, and "Pierrot Le Fou" was the best -- one of Godard's greatest achievements. On the surface, "Pierrot Le Fou," the 1965 film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, is a color and cinema-scope re-make of "The Maltese Falcon." But thematically, Godard's film is much blacker and more terrifying than its melodramatic plot line would imply...
...Pierrot," a would-be writer, Ferdinand, abruptly walks out on the life he has been leading, one where his friends speak in advertising slogans, and travels cross-country trying to write and live by the standards he considers important. But the girl with whom he has run away turns out to be corrupt, and finally his love for her destroys him. Ferdinand has journeyed from one trap to another, and the realization of this is deeply disturbing. "Pierrot Le Fou" is an extension of Godard's preoccupation with the importance of human values in a world of emotional and intellectual...
...prints and linear Greek vase painting, created an amalgam that also included serpentine art nouveau and traditional English silhouette figures. His subject matter was never innocent. Wrote Beardsley of a series of book cuts: "The subjects were quite mad and a little indecent. Strange hermaphroditic creatures wandering about in Pierrot costumes or modern dress; quite a new world of my own creation...
...incapable of doing so. Godard insist on exploring every tiny aspect of the art of film; even the use of black and white film, normally taken for granted, is done with a purpose. Godard continues to make two or three films a year, and his latest efforts, Alphaville and Pierrot le Fou, while not quite up to his standards of 1964, are still superb cinema...