Jean-Luc Godard lives for contradictions – his best-known work from the 1960s was at once a zippy, deeply cool play on old Hollywood tropes and a recognition of their limitations, and the hopeless lives of those who try too hard...
Breathless is a kind of a crime film. And A Woman Is a Woman is a kind of a musical. But by the time we get to the new The Image Book, almost 60 years after Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg smoked cigarettes and hid...
On Monday, grieving from the news in Las Vegas and the sheer hopelessness of genuinely trying to prevent another such tragedy from happening here, I went to see Agnès Varda’s new film, Faces Places. And for just under 90 minutes...
I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. I studied the French New...
Title: La Chinoise Year: 1967 Director: Jean-Luc Godard Cast: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Michel Semeniako, Lex De Bruijn, Omar Diop Synopsis: A group of leftist students gathers and discusses their Marxist/Socialist ideals, applying them to the recently established...
UCLA concludes their spectacular series pairing silent and early sound Japanese and American films. On Friday they have Yasujiro Shimazu’s First Steps Ashore (1932, 35mm) alongside Josef von Sternberg’s life-changing The Docks of New York (1928, 35mm). Then on Sunday,...
