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For Ever Godard #17
Le Vent D’est (Wind From The East) 1970 Wind from the East is arguably the most difficult-to-watch Godard film ever. About 5 times talkier than the average 90 minute movie, Godard fills the runtime...
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For Ever Godard #18
British Sounds (See You At Mao) 1970 Though Godard has made longer and more significant films in the same period, I chose British Sounds because it is here that we see Godard’s masterful use of...
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For Ever Godard #19
Lettre À Jane (Letter To Jane: An Investigation About A Still) 1972 Letter to Jane may be seen as a companion piece to the intriguing Tout Va Bien (1972), for the idea of the film sprouted during the...
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Four Faces Of King Lear
Four Faces of King Lear Shakespeare’s plays have become an endless pool of resource for the filmmakers of the world. Their universality of themes and emotions has intrigued a range of directors and...
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Flashback #60
Il Conformista (1972) (aka The Conformist) Bernardo Bertolucci Italian “That’s why a normal man is a true brother, a true citizen, a true patriot… A true fascist.” Bernardo Bertolucci’s The...
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Flashback #62
Khesht Va Ayeneh (1965) (aka Brick And Mirror) Ebrahim Golestan Persian “Do you see those panes, those windows? Behind each, there is an evil eye, a wicked tongue, a jealous black heart, each detesting...
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Inglourious Basterds: Afterthoughts
After watching Inglourious Basterds last week, I skimmed through a few films I was referring to in my review and felt that Tarantino’s movie, its last chapter in particular, refers to them in a manner...
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Europa, Europa!
Persistence Of Vision (Image Courtesy: Cannes Festival Site) A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of its own past. So seems to suggest Jean Luc-Godard’s golden jubilee work Film Socialism (2010),...
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Favorite Films Of 2010
Allow me to begin with a cliché: 2010 has been an insipid year at the movies. I really struggled to come up with this list because it just didn’t feel like there were many contenders for it. The tail...
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Men In Love With Images
“To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want...
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Favorite Films Of 2014
While my writing on this blog came to a grinding halt in 2014, watching and reading hit an all-time high, with the year practically spent in the eight feet between my bookshelf and computer screen. The...
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The Image Book (2018)
“Before the talkies, silent films had a materialist starting point. The actor said: I am (filmed) therefore I think (at least I think of the fact that I am being filmed), it’s because I exist that I...
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A Letter from Luc Moullet
Cahiers du cinéma no. 304; October 1979. I’d said that my film Origins of a Meal was equivalent to a cow’s neutral gaze. But not everyone had the same opinion about this gaze. — Dear...
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Ardent Hope: Interview with Jean-Luc Godard
[The following is a translation I did with Andy Rector of the 14-page interview with Jean-Luc Godard that appears in the October issue of Cahiers du Cinéma] — That is what is beautiful about The Image...
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Jean-Luc Godard on Fritz Lang
[The following is a translation of a program note that Godard wrote on Fritz Lang’s The Return of Frank James (1940). The note, originally written in 1956 on behalf of UFOLEIS (Union française des...
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Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022)
Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard chose to end his life on 13 September at the age of 91 in his home in Rolle, Switzerland. Many of the tributes from around the world have likened his passing to no less than...
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