Jean-Luc Godard
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Three Popular Films of Jean-Pierre Gorin
DVD Verdict &bull Jan 23, 2012
By 1968, Jean-Luc Godard had all but exhausted his desire to make films that looked anything like typical narrative cinema. His 1967 feature Weekend even finished with a title card reading "End of Cinema." Of course, Godard couldn't deny the lure of the medium, and he co-founded the Dziga Vertov Group with Jean-Pierre Gorin. The group's most famous creation is Tout Va Bien, but they dissolved soon after. This led Gorin to emigrate to America, where he made a series of essayistic documentaries that intersect with his outsider status as an emigrant. Because they're likely to appeal to a… Full Story »
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FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard, 2010)
Dennis Grunes &bull Jan 22, 2012
The Egyptian watch that has passed from wrist to wrist-both wearers that we see are black women-contains the universe in a grain of mechanism. And contains history. In the middle of Film Socialisme, Jean-Luc Godard's first theatrical film shot exclusively… Full Story »
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'Film Socialisme' review: Jean-Luc Godard sets sail
Los Angeles Times - Entertainment News &bull Jan 20, 2012
Combining reflections on the past, present and future of Western civilization aboard a cruise ship, 'Film Socialisme' is signature Jean-Luc Godard. Movie review: 'Red Tails' Movie review: 'Man on a Mission' Over the course of a career that stretches back more than 50… Full Story »
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Costa Concordia provided setting for a 2010 Jean-Luc Godard film ...
Zibb.com: Media/Movies & Film (Industry News & Blogs) &bull Jan 15, 2012
Sunday 15 January 2012. Anyone who sat through Film Socialisme may have suspected that the Costa Concordia was heading for trouble. The cruise liner was the setting for the first "movement" of Jean-Luc Godard's ambitious, infuriating 2010 picture, serving as… Full Story »
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Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin
DVD Talk Reviews &bull Jan 15, 2012
Highly Recommended THE FILMS: Prior to watching the three new-to-DVD discoveries excavated by Criterion for their Eclipse series box set Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin , the only work by this expat French filmmaker/professor/writer I had seen was the… Full Story »
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Histoire(s) du cin ma
DVD Talk Reviews &bull Dec 11, 2011
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Has there ever been a cinematic mind as restless and voracious as that of the great French auteur, provocateur, and aesthetically/politically radical Jean-Luc Godard? His best-known and most widely liked, New Wave-defining films of the '60s… Full Story »
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'Film Socialisme' review: Jean-Luc Godard, the eternal bomb-thrower, still angry, still obscure
Mad About Movies &bull Oct 27, 2011
The octagenarian iconoclast finds yet new ways to fracture the filmwatching experience. Full Story »
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New Release: Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard
First Run/Icarus Films &bull Oct 4, 2011
In 2009, in a small theater in Geneva, Switzerland, film directors Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard met for an unusual, surprisngly intimate and sometimes contentious dialogue. Full Story »
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Perspective: Godard's latest film goes largely unseen in L.A.
Los Angeles Times - Entertainment News &bull Sep 25, 2011
Jean-Luc Godard's difficult but poetic 'Film Socialisme' has been out for months but hasn't yet had a run in this film capital. Jean-Luc Godard, in one of his countless musings on the love of his life, once said: "The cinema… Full Story »
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'Film Socialisme' review: Godard goes gaga
San Francisco Chronicle Movies &bull Sep 1, 2011
Film Socialisme RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Artistic rant film. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. With Patti Smith, Alain Badiou. In French, with truncated English subtitles. (Not rated. 101 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "Film... Full Story »
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Second Look: 'The Complete Jean Vigo' coming Aug. 30
Los Angeles Times - Entertainment News &bull Aug 20, 2011
The ill-fated French filmmaker displayed a budding brilliance before his death at 29 in 1934. His work influenced many who followed, including Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. Minute for minute, there is almost certainly no more influential figure in all… Full Story »
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FIRST NAME: CARMEN (Jean-Luc Godard, 1983)
Dennis Grunes &bull Aug 19, 2011
For his bruising Prenom Carmen, Jean-Luc Godard's most romantic film post-Karina, Bizet's late nineteenth-century opera, based on Merimee's novel, is both a springboard and an ultimate point of return, like the sea. This version is contemporary, with the best performance-obscene, hilarious-coming from Godard himself, as Jean Godard, a once successful filmmaker currently deposited in a mental hospital where doctors and nurses want him out and he schemes to remain. Chaplin's Limelight… Full Story »
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Minority View: Rififi in Tokyo by Jacques Deray (France)
Dear Cinema &bull Aug 18, 2011
When we deal with the French New Wave, it is difficult to bear in mind that it was a movement that went far beyond a handful of directors. Being driven by cinephilia, it was a response to the possibilities of cinema and this comes home to us again and again even when we see the work of 'minor' artists like Jacques Deray who went on to make more commercially viable films like Borsalino (1970), a star vehicle for Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Deray remained an excellent craftsman in his latter films but his second feature Rififi in Tokyo (1963),… Full Story »
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Disc Spotlight: One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
FilmSchoolRejects.com &bull Aug 17, 2011
For a filmmaker who completed only seven feature films in his lifetime, Andrei Tarkovsky has made an enormous impact. In addition to his artistry, perhaps the enduring fascination with his work has to do with the story of a life cut short. After all, several European filmmakers who were born before Tarkovsky, like Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, are still around and making new films. Each of Tarkovsky's seven films are brilliant works that each possess an ambition towards perfection and cinematic transcendence, but when bringing the filmmaker's abrupt death by lung cancer into the equation it's difficult to avoid… Full Story »
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Honorary Oscars To Be Voted: Who Will Get Them?
Deadline Hollywood Daily &bull Jul 30, 2011
Tuesday night is a big one for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. They hold their annual election for President (expect current Prexy Tom Sherak to be easily re-elected for his third and final one-year term) and they… Full Story »
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Just Crowdfund the $&*# Movie!: Party Time, Part 2
MovieMaker Magazine Blog 8 &bull Jul 26, 2011
In a recent interview, legendary auteur Jean-Luc Godard declared that the Internet has taken over. "Film is over," he said. "The auteur is dead. The future is cut-and-paste movie mashups." Coming from the man who explored the intersection between consumerism… Full Story »
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A Life In The Movies
Paris Guardian.com &bull Jul 22, 2011
On 13 November last year Kevin Brownlow received an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement, alongside Francis Ford Coppola (Jean-Luc Godard didn't turn up). In his letter of ... Full Story »
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KING LEAR (Jean-Luc Godard, 1987)
Dennis Grunes &bull Jul 21, 2011
The radioactivity dispersed by the 1986 meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant plunged the world into apocalypse, ending civilization and wiping out its hallmark, art, which therefore had to be reinvented, reconstructed. William Shakespeare Jr. the Fifth (played by… Full Story »
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Locarno nods to Huppert's excellence
Variety Online &bull Jul 20, 2011
Locarno artistic director Olivier Pere praised Huppert as ''unquestionably one of the best contemporary French actresses,'' noting that she ''has built her career by picking complex and unforgettable roles, and also directors who represent the strongest personalities in modern cinema.'… Full Story »
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Rupert Murdoch attack joins the pantheon of pie throwing
Los Angeles Times - Entertainment News &bull Jul 20, 2011
The attack on Rupert Murdoch with a shaving cream pie during a British parliamentary committee hearing in London on Tuesday may have been shocking, but it was far from unprecedented. In fact, the 80-year-old Murdoch joins a long list of… Full Story »
