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OUT OF THE PAST.(Brief Article)
From 1961, Roger Angell reviews Godard's "Breathless"
The new film from Jean-Luc Godard, "In Praise of Love," is to be released on September 6th. That plan alone strikes me as bold, not to say reckless. Will audiences, caught in a gust of commemorative mourning and resolve, take kindly to a film whose appetite for things American is, let us say, on the meagre side? At one point, a character sits and intones the words "Julia Roberts" and "Hollywood" as if these were evils on which we could all agree. Americans "have no real past," Godard informs us. "They have no memory of their own; their machines do, but they have none personally, so they buy the past of ...
- In praise of Godard's in praise of love.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Film Criticism Dixon, Wheeler Winston March 22, 2003 700+ words
Jean-Luc Godard's latest film, In Praise of Love, 2001, is yet another departure...A bout de souffle (1960), Godard has been moving away from the commercial...own. A bout de souffle remains Godard's biggest commercial success...
- High 'Praise' for Godard's latest film: 'In Praise of Love' probes the...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor September 6, 2002 700+ words
...life story. This gives Godard an opening for pointed...culture. "In Praise of Love" was originally called...translated as "elegy to love." It's a sad movie...of memory and history. Godard has long believed that...cinema, much of which he loves - went straight from infancy...
- Godard revealed.(Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Hell, Richard October 1, 2008 700+ words
...Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor), falls in love with Veronica Dreyer (Anna Karina) just as Godard fell in love with Karina during the filming. Another revelation of the biography is that Godard is not actually the radical leftist that...
- Jean-Luc Godard: Son + Image. (Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Klawans, Stuart November 23, 1992 700+ words
...before a blank screen, Godard calls up images from Passion...the relationship between love and labor, the falsity...together, apart from Godard himself?. A desire to...primacy of the visible? Godard shows us a detail of hands...Tintoretto's gesture of love is linked with the laborer...
- Jean-Luc Godard and The Ill-Fated `King Lear'
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Hector Feliciano September 4, 1988 700+ words
...Mailer's script away." But Godard replies, "Everybody knew I wasn...use this script for my movie." Godard says: "Mailer then claimed people...movie. "Just a pretext," adds Godard, "Mailer loves money. Besides, he wanted Cannon...
- All you need is a girl and a gun.(Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy,...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Thomson, David (English writer) February 9, 2004 700+ words
...though there is that Godard), and think about this...In his brief cameo in Godard's Pierrot le Fou...like a battleground: Love ... Hate ... Action...recipe was the childhood Godard spent with American action...anguish at the loss of two loves: It was made as Godard...
- Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Sterritt, David December 22, 2008 700+ words
...Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody. New York...understanding of the women in Godard's life provides a key to...announce the film as a conflicted love-portrait of Anna Karina, who was then Godard's wife, or when Brigitte...
- Bard by Godard: `Lear' Not Near
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Desson Howe June 17, 1988 700+ words
...values clarity and poetry, Godard seems to go for obfuscation...aims for universality, while Godard seeks to devalue everything...he says things such as: "Love's Labors Lost. As you wish...from the real "King Lear." Godard brings into play his intellectual...