Le chinoise.Most serious writing about Jean-Luc Godard tends to be both high-flown and forbidding, rather like the films it’s discussing. Translations from French to English or vice versa can make things even dicier. But according to the literary scholar Fredric Jameson, who contributes an enthusiastic preface and afterword, Reading with Jean-Luc Godard—a compendium of 109 three-page essays by 50 writers from a dozen countries, announced as the first in a series—launches “a new form” and “a new genre.”The brevity of each entry tends to confirm Jameson’s claim. The book can be described as an audience-friendly volume designed to occupy the same space between academia and journalism staked out by Notebook while proposing routes into Godard’s work provided by his eclectic reading—a batch of writers ranged alphabetically and intellectually from Louis Aragon, Robert Ardrey, Hannah Arendt, and Honoré de Balzac to François Truffaut, Paul Valéry,...
- 1/30/2024
- MUBI
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. Gkids releases the film in theaters on Friday, December 8.
How does someone follow one of the greatest and most profoundly summative farewells the movies have ever seen? By definition, they don’t. They retire, or they die. Or they retire and then they die. In some rare cases, it even seems like they die because they retired.
And then there’s 82-year-old filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, always in a category of his own, who’s formally or informally quit the business no fewer than seven times of the course of his illustrious career, most recently after the 2013 release of his magnum opus “The Wind Rises.” A fictionalized biopic about aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose most visionary designs were built with forced Korean labor and deployed at the wasteful mercy of Japan’s World War II campaign,...
How does someone follow one of the greatest and most profoundly summative farewells the movies have ever seen? By definition, they don’t. They retire, or they die. Or they retire and then they die. In some rare cases, it even seems like they die because they retired.
And then there’s 82-year-old filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, always in a category of his own, who’s formally or informally quit the business no fewer than seven times of the course of his illustrious career, most recently after the 2013 release of his magnum opus “The Wind Rises.” A fictionalized biopic about aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose most visionary designs were built with forced Korean labor and deployed at the wasteful mercy of Japan’s World War II campaign,...
- 9/8/2023
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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Jean-Luc Godard, the brilliant and polemical Franco-Swiss filmmaker whose work revolutionized cinema, has died. He was 91.
Godard’s death was reported by French newspaper Liberation, which didn’t immediately detail a cause of death.
A former film critic who wrote for the legendary Cahiers du Cinéma during its heyday of the 1950s, Godard emerged onto the scene in 1960 with his seminal debut feature, Breathless, which won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
The Paris-set crime caper, which starred Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo, forever changed the course of movies and heralded the arrival of cinematic modernism. Using jump cuts, nods to the camera and other meta-fictional devices, Breathless constantly interrupted and commented on the story as it was happening.
Indeed, Godard’s major contribution to cinema was his idea that a movie was both the story it was telling and the...
Jean-Luc Godard, the brilliant and polemical Franco-Swiss filmmaker whose work revolutionized cinema, has died. He was 91.
Godard’s death was reported by French newspaper Liberation, which didn’t immediately detail a cause of death.
A former film critic who wrote for the legendary Cahiers du Cinéma during its heyday of the 1950s, Godard emerged onto the scene in 1960 with his seminal debut feature, Breathless, which won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
The Paris-set crime caper, which starred Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo, forever changed the course of movies and heralded the arrival of cinematic modernism. Using jump cuts, nods to the camera and other meta-fictional devices, Breathless constantly interrupted and commented on the story as it was happening.
Indeed, Godard’s major contribution to cinema was his idea that a movie was both the story it was telling and the...
- 9/13/2022
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Yet the death of this friend inexplicably relieves something, like the threat of his death.”—Jean Louis Schefer, in his eulogy for Roland Barthes1For Jean Louis Schefer, the distinctive writer and nonpareil theorist of art who died in early June of this year, the interaction between oneself and the image is a fraught site of self-definition. Perhaps no other thinker was as dedicated to exploring the interlocking of interior self-consciousness and external perception that the experience of images provides. It is an event that occurs across cultures, across eras.The singularity of his thought stems in part from the uncommonness of his childhood. He was born in 1938 into an aristocratic and well-connected family. And like something out of Proust, his childhood was filled with the household visits of famous artists and writers. The most memorable for Schefer, and the person who would exhibit great influence on his thinking, was...
- 7/11/2022
- MUBI
Demolition screenwriter Bryan Sipe with Anne-Katrin Titze Photo: Omar Gonzales
Jean-Marc Vallée's rockin' Demolition stars Jake Gyllenhaal with Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and introduces Judah Lewis as an impressive teenage mix of Kurt Cobain, Mick Jagger and David Bowie. Paul Valéry, Michael Almereyda's take on Stanley Milgram's "Familiar Stranger" in Experimenter, a Joy Division T-shirt, costume choices by the Dallas Buyers Club and Wild director, a nail in the foot and an ache in the soul, what it means to "deserve", heightened reality in Café De Flore, starring Vanessa Paradis, plus a mini-manual of how to creatively destroy a house - all came up in my Essex House conversation with screenwriter Bryan Sipe.
Bryan Sipe on Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal): "All of a sudden, the most odd things are catching his attention."
Unlike his protagonist, investment banker Davis (Gyllenhaal), who unravels after losing his wife in a car accident,...
Jean-Marc Vallée's rockin' Demolition stars Jake Gyllenhaal with Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and introduces Judah Lewis as an impressive teenage mix of Kurt Cobain, Mick Jagger and David Bowie. Paul Valéry, Michael Almereyda's take on Stanley Milgram's "Familiar Stranger" in Experimenter, a Joy Division T-shirt, costume choices by the Dallas Buyers Club and Wild director, a nail in the foot and an ache in the soul, what it means to "deserve", heightened reality in Café De Flore, starring Vanessa Paradis, plus a mini-manual of how to creatively destroy a house - all came up in my Essex House conversation with screenwriter Bryan Sipe.
Bryan Sipe on Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal): "All of a sudden, the most odd things are catching his attention."
Unlike his protagonist, investment banker Davis (Gyllenhaal), who unravels after losing his wife in a car accident,...
- 3/23/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Danièle Delorme and Jean Gabin in 'Deadlier Than the Male.' Danièle Delorme movies (See previous post: “Danièle Delorme: 'Gigi' 1949 Actress Became Rare Woman Director's Muse.”) “Every actor would like to make a movie with Charles Chaplin or René Clair,” Danièle Delorme explains in the filmed interview (ca. 1960) embedded further below, adding that oftentimes it wasn't up to them to decide with whom they would get to work. Yet, although frequently beyond her control, Delorme managed to collaborate with a number of major (mostly French) filmmakers throughout her six-decade movie career. Aside from her Jacqueline Audry films discussed in the previous Danièle Delorme article, below are a few of her most notable efforts – usually playing naive-looking young women of modest means and deceptively inconspicuous sexuality, whose inner character may or may not match their external appearance. Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (“Open for Inventory Causes,” 1946), an unreleased, no-budget comedy notable...
- 12/18/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Marc Allégret: From André Gide lover to Simone Simon mentor (photo: Marc Allégret) (See previous post: "Simone Simon Remembered: Sex Kitten and Femme Fatale.") Simone Simon became a film star following the international critical and financial success of the 1934 romantic drama Lac aux Dames, directed by her self-appointed mentor – and alleged lover – Marc Allégret.[1] The son of an evangelical missionary, Marc Allégret (born on December 22, 1900, in Basel, Switzerland) was to have become a lawyer. At age 16, his life took a different path as a result of his romantic involvement – and elopement to London – with his mentor and later "adoptive uncle" André Gide (1947 Nobel Prize winner in Literature), more than 30 years his senior and married to Madeleine Rondeaux for more than two decades. In various forms – including a threesome with painter Théo Van Rysselberghe's daughter Elisabeth – the Allégret-Gide relationship remained steady until the late '20s and their trip to...
- 2/28/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Clichés and readymade expressions are ambushes on all sides. What can written language be when you cannot set yourself free from the heavy repertoire of images, comparisons and metaphors all languages make weigh upon you? How can one become a poet? Rémi just turned 18 and made a post-graduation decision. He wants to become a poet. In Sète, a harbour in the south west of France, famous for its cemetery where lies great French poet Paul Valéry, Rémi wanders with his notebook and a pen, looking for inspiration. "I have to write,"he says to himself. Where is inspiration to be found? Rémi tries the shopping list of the "sources of inspiration": wandering in nature, exploring nighttime, meditating upon the sea, picking words casually in vocabularies, having contacts with interesting fellow humans, and drinking. Vodka being an equally lethal substitute to Verlaine's absinthe.
In one tableau-like scene after another, Rémi...
In one tableau-like scene after another, Rémi...
- 9/2/2014
- by Marie-Pierre Duhamel
- MUBI
Hayao Miyazaki's final film about a Japanese flight pioneer is visually exquisite and emotionally charged
There is a wonderful gentleness and intelligent idealism to this animation by 73-year-old Hayao Miyazaki, understood to be his final work, now available here in subtitled and dubbed versions. It is a tribute to the aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi, who was a pioneer in aircraft design in the first half of the twentieth century. This Horikoshi bookish and bespectacled like a Japanese Harry Potter never loses his essential boyishness, never loses the distracted look of a dreamer and an artist. His planes are visions, poems in flight. The title, Kaze Tachinu, or The Wind Rises, is an allusion to lines of Paul Valéry repeatedly cited in the movie: "The wind rises, we must try to live."
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There is a wonderful gentleness and intelligent idealism to this animation by 73-year-old Hayao Miyazaki, understood to be his final work, now available here in subtitled and dubbed versions. It is a tribute to the aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi, who was a pioneer in aircraft design in the first half of the twentieth century. This Horikoshi bookish and bespectacled like a Japanese Harry Potter never loses his essential boyishness, never loses the distracted look of a dreamer and an artist. His planes are visions, poems in flight. The title, Kaze Tachinu, or The Wind Rises, is an allusion to lines of Paul Valéry repeatedly cited in the movie: "The wind rises, we must try to live."
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- 5/8/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
At Harvard University in the early 1920s, a bright but insecure science student from a German-Jewish family in New York used to wind up his chums by quoting modern French poetry. Pretentious, moi? Some of his friends certainly thought so. Among the poets this prodigy admired was Paul Valéry, who in 1920 had written his masterpiece Le Cimetiere Marin – The Seaside Graveyard. "Le vent se lève," that poem's final verse begins, "Il faut tenter de vivre."...
- 5/7/2014
- The Independent - Film
Kent Jones and Anne-Katrin Titze look towards the future of the New York Film Festival. Photo: John Wildman
New York Film Festival Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones and I spoke about his first year at the helm the week before the 51st edition kicks off on September 27. Captain Phillips, directed by Paul Greengrass with Tom Hanks will be the opening night film, Ben Stiller's The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty is its centerpiece gala, and the festival will close with Spike Jonze's Her on October 13. Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes will be feted this year with gala tributes.
In Part One of our conversation we discuss class distinctions in Like Father, Like Son and La Vie D’Adèle, getting personal with agnès b, and the pacifism of Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises as compared to Kubrick's Paths Of Glory. Thomas Mann, Paul Valéry,...
New York Film Festival Director of Programming and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones and I spoke about his first year at the helm the week before the 51st edition kicks off on September 27. Captain Phillips, directed by Paul Greengrass with Tom Hanks will be the opening night film, Ben Stiller's The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty is its centerpiece gala, and the festival will close with Spike Jonze's Her on October 13. Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes will be feted this year with gala tributes.
In Part One of our conversation we discuss class distinctions in Like Father, Like Son and La Vie D’Adèle, getting personal with agnès b, and the pacifism of Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises as compared to Kubrick's Paths Of Glory. Thomas Mann, Paul Valéry,...
- 9/23/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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