Friday, August 12 2011
‘French Cinema’ Is a Tangled, Rumpled Jumble of a History
French Cinema is a popular history that makes its own eccentric claims on what that history should be.
Thursday, June 16 2011
ReFramed No. 3: Jean-Luc Godard - The Lost Later Years (1990-2011)
In this final installment in ReFramed's dissection of Godard, Cronk and Marsh consider age, attitude, and the angst of misplaced elitism.
Friday, May 13 2011
Godard’s Invisible Cinema: The Neglected Genius of Late-Period Godard
By ignoring or outright dismissing Jean-Luc Godard's post-New Wave work, we’re denying the cinema the opportunity for advancement that he alone can provide.
Monday, August 30 2010
Why Godard Leaves Me Breathless (In a Good Way)
Godard’s inaugural masterpiece, in spite of its canonical status, is still as vibrant on the screen today as it was fifty years ago
Wednesday, June 30 2010
Imitating Intimacy in Video Games
Sex is very often (and very unfortunately) just a game.
Thursday, May 22 2008
La Chinoise
A group of Mao-influenced French students struggle with ideology, the divide between theory and praxis, and the other myriad conflicts of starry-eyed revolutionaries.
Wednesday, May 14 2008
Le Gai savoir
This is the ne plus ultra of intellectual torture tests, dripping with intertextuality and esoteric post-structural philosophy.
Friday, April 25 2008
Pierrot le Fou
This film illustrates the genius and brilliance of Godard, who always was a step or two ahead of most critics, academics, and viewers.
Friday, March 21 2008
Jean-Luc Godard: 3-Disc Collector’s Edition
For all of pretense surrounding these films and their attempts to grapple with "big ideas", they are, ultimately, experiences that one must live through; they demand viewing and listening.
Friday, January 4 2008
Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
On censorship he says: "It tended to be assumed in European films that human beings were born with sexual organs and at a certain point in their lives began to use them, not always in socially approved ways."
