Posted on 09/13/2022 3:42:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Godard came to prominence in the early 1960s as part of the French New Wave, the most important national film movement of the 20th century.
Godard’s first feature, the formally inventive and effortlessly hip À Bout de Souffle (Breathless, 1960)...a raw statement of artistic freedom, and it set Godard on course to become the most individual and influential film-maker of his generation, known for axioms such as “cinema is truth 24 times a second” and “it’s not a just image, it’s just an image”.
Godard seemed unstoppable. With his mercurial intelligence and humour, his restless energy and curiosity, he proceeded by trial and error, criss-crossing different artistic fields and plugging into new intellectual and cultural currents with astonishing ease. Each film was conceived as a pseudo-scientific inquiry and as part of an evolving, all-encompassing project. What made Godard so special was his extraordinary sensitivity to beauty, form and gesture. He had a unique ability to alight on an object and, through framing, dramatise its material existence and plasticity. The multiple textures and ellipses of his work achieved with his regular editor, Agnès Guillemot, produced sudden flashes of often breathtaking simplicity and grace, and his ingenious use of signs, texts, and photomontages illustrated his exceptional skills as a graphic artist. He continually experimented with mutating credit sequences and intertitles and even designed his own trailers.
He did not turn up to collect an honorary Oscar in 2010.
Jean-Luc Godard, film director, born 3 December 1930; died 13 September 2022
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I guess Commander Ryker takes over now.
“ I guess Commander Ryker takes over now.”
As long as it is not Deanna Troi
Not Picard. He’s still in command, even though his show was (thankfully) cancelled.
My name is Patrick, as I’m sure yours is too. N’est-ce pas?
Every French director of that era did so well in getting that little bit better exposure of the form fatal. How many ‘art house’ cinemas did they support over here with those prurient (but now tame) moments?
In this case, I refer to that double ‘B’, Brigit Bardot, sex kitten extraordinaire in “Le Mepris” (1963) [with Jack Palance]. Ah, the dreams of my youth!
Godard est mort. Quel domage.
Perhaps I will think of him this weekend while sitting in traffic.
I’ll be damn
Anyone tell Hollywood Borges?
I’ll be damn
Anyone tell Hollywood Borges?
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I was thinking Borges posted it. Pinging him.
I really like French New Wave cinema. Goddard and the others may not have been to everyone’s taste, but I went through a big phase of European cinema.
I rate it a bit more highly than you. Leftist critics say modern cinema began with Breathless so to them Godard is a god because of it. They will praise and give the highest tributes for sure.
Did he Commit suicide?
His first film, a short, 20 minutes, is on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lHsXi3-5oSE
Before Marxist crap kept increasing in his work.
Nothing political about that observation. I like his pre 1968 films. AFter that the stuff I saw bordered on unwatchable.
Yeah.
I would have said, Rest in Peace Jean-Luc Godard, but that doesn't seem possible or likely.
Godard died on 13 September 2022 at his home in Rolle, Switzerland, following an assisted suicide procedure./sigh
If you can, try to find the late, great critic John Simon’s reviews of his films. They brilliantly summarized everything wrong in his films. He saw right thru them, and him.
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