French critic cum filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard famously said that all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun, but he could have done it with less. As an artist, Godard vacillated back and forth between incendiary … Continue reading BAND OF OUTSIDERS (BANDE À PART)
There is no greater film festival for classic movie lovers than the TCM Classic Film Fest in Hollywood, California. Every spring, throngs of moviegoers descend on the honorary capital of moviemaking for a feverish, bleary-eyed three-day celebration of the moving … Continue reading TCM Classic Film Festival — 2016
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
I don’t think you should FEEL about a movie. You should feel about a woman. You can’t kiss a movie. There is no point in having sharp images when you’ve fuzzy ideas. Tracking shots are a question of morality. You … Continue reading Born On This Day — December 3, 1930
The only great problem of cinema seems to be more and more, with each film, when and why to start a shot and when and why to end it. I make film to make time pass. —Jean-Luc Godard Continue reading Born On This Day — December 3
Actually making films has taught us a lot:It is as much trouble to make a bad films as a good one.Our most sincere film can seem phony.The films we do with our left hands may become worldwide hits.A perfectly ordinary … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, August 9, 2013
If it were all in the script, why make the film? —Nicholas Ray Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. —Jean-Luc Godard Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, July 29, 2013
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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