I guess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards. No, the “slap heard ’round the world” wasn’t it—though that cast a pall over the proceedings, didn’t it?—but the … Continue reading Cinema 101
No one face embodied the French New Wave more than that of Anna Karina. Born Hanne Karin Bayer in Denmark in 1940, Karina made her way to Paris as a model when she was 17, starring in advertisements for Coca-Cola, … Continue reading LE PETIT SOLDAT
In 1960, Jean-Luc Godard revolutionized cinema. Breathless wasn’t just a break from the old ways of filmmaking, it was as if cinema had cracked off and begun again. Seven years later, Godard concluded Weekend with the title card, “Fin… de cinema.” It was … Continue reading GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE / ADIEU AU LANGAGE
People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore, I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me. —Jean-Luc Godard Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, July 15, 2013
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