Taking the three films Made in USA, La Chinoise and Tout va bien as a focus, Drew Morton looks at how Jean-Luc Godard (and Jean-Pierre Gorin in the latter case) engaged with the art of the comic strip.
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Published here for the first time in English, translator Sally Shafto provides a brief context for the two pieces that follow by Antoine and Christophe Bourseiller on their encounters with Godard.
A chapter from Bourseiller’s memoir Sans relâche: Histoires d’une vie which offers a rich and moving account of his friendship with Godard.
Some salient passages from Christophe Bourseiller’s memoirs on growing up in the 1960s. Christophe is one-time child actor for Godard, Maoist and Situationist.
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998 France/Switzerland 265 Mins) Program 1a: “Toutes les historie(s)” (“All the [Hi]stories”) 51 mins; Program 1b: “Une histoire seule” (“A Lone [Hi]story”) 42 mins; Program 2a: “Seule le cinema” (“Cinema Alone”) 26 mins; Program 2b: “Fatale beauté” (“Deadly Beauty”) 28 mins; Program 3a: “La monnaie de l’absolu” (“Coinage of the Absolute”) 27 [...]
Tom Luddy was the principal conduit for almost all of Godard’s forays into the North American film scene. From Godard’s ‘Dziga Vertov’ tours to his association with Francis Coppola’s Zoetrope, Luddy played a crucial role.
Reflections on Jean-Luc Godard’s 1969 essay-film and his avowed “return to zero” as a filmmaker.
Insightful reflections on the major Godard exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
“What are all these paintings doing in a history of cinema?” The author gives an answer in her analysis of Godard’s monumental video work, which approximates André Malraux’s concept of the imaginary museum.
“In painting, I know of no one who went further than Nicolas de Staël.” – Jean-Luc Godard. An insightful discussion of the profound affinities between the great painter and the equally great filmmaker who held his work in such high esteem.
British Sounds (1969 UK/France 54 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Kestrel Productions for LWT Prod: Irving Teitelbaum Dir, Scr: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger Phot: Charles Stewart Editor: Elizabeth Kozmian (actually edited by Christine Aya) Sound: Fred Sharp Jean-Luc Godard’s wildly polemical piece of political cinema, British Sounds, offers clear evidence at the end of the [...]
La Chinoise, ou plutôt à la chinoise (1967 France 90 mins) Source: ACMI Collections/FE Prod Co: Productions de la Guéville/Parc Films/Athos-Films/Simar Films/Anouchka Films Dir, Scr: Jean-Luc Godard Phot: Raoul Coutard Ed: Agnès Guillemot, Delphine Desfons Mus: Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, Franz Schubert, Michel Legrand Sound: René Levert Cast: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Michel Sémeniako, Lex de Bruijn, [...]
Appropriately, Jean-Luc Godard's cinema remains an endless source of fascination for film criticism. Another account of Godard's æsthetics from a passionate admirer.
