Godard On Godard (A Da Capo paperback)
Jean-Luc Godard
Language: English
Pages: 292
ISBN: 0306802597
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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the cinema. He is the French cinema, as Dostoievsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music. Listen to him : 'A good craftsman loves the board he planes . . . . There is a sublime awkwardness which remains indifferent to virtuosity - it is from this defect that emotion is born in the spectator, an emotion similar to that which guides us when we do something our skill condemns . . . . My craft is an apprenticeship ; which does not mean something which can be taught. . . . The film is a
contempt are not without a touch of Ingrid Bergman. But one has to have seen Birger Malmsten as the dreamy boy in Summer Interlude, and again, unrecognizably, as the respectable bourgeois in Thirst ; one has to have seen Gunnar Bjorn strand and Harriet Andersson in the first episode of Journey into Autumn, and again, with different eyes, different mannerisms, different body rhythms, in Smiles of a Summer Night, to realize the extent of Bergman's amazing ability to mould these cattle, as
Jury desperate need to dig one 's heels in : not to mention the prizewinners, that is, or the sixty-odd other films, . but to concentrate. exclusively on A.gnes Varda, Jacques Demy , Alain Res nals and Jacques Rozier - the French cmema of the future. As a matter of fact this is the only critical advantage afforded by the inter nationalization of the Tours Festival. All things considered, France emerges as a brilliant victor in the light of this Franco-foreign confrontation. Worth less as it
what direction ? Towards a Western style which will remind some of Conrad, others of Simenon, but reminds me of nothing wh atsoever, for I have seen nothing so completely new since - why not ? Griffith. Just as the director of Bir th of a Nation gave one the impression that he was inventing the cinema with every shot, each shot of Man of the West gives one the impression that Anthony Mann is reinventing the Western, exactly as Matisse's portraits reinvent the features of Piero della Francesca.
film in the series Cineastes de Notre Temps, directed by Hubert Knapp and produced by Janine Bazin and A . S. Labarthe, as well as of a Pout Notre Plaisir programme, directed by Jacques Doniol- Valcroze. As for .. 1 62 Godard's televi#Q!u�pp�q.!�-'!'l!!§ - ang. the scandals they aroused - they are as innumerable as his interviews. It remains-merely for us to assure "the reader that this last chapter, 'Marginal Notes While Filming ', is central to Godard's work and, like it, far from finished.