Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Band of Outsiders originally ran as a home video review. I feel bad for all those other films that don’t get to be Band of Outsiders. Now,...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Band of Outsiders originally ran as part of Aaron’s A Series of Crimes series. Jean-Luc Godard, like his French New Wave contemporaries, was fascinated by Hollywood...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Le Petit Soldat originally ran as a home video review. Jean-Luc Godard’s early ambition was in fact to be a novelist, and he took that same...
Jean-Luc Godard’s early ambition was in fact to be a novelist, and he took that same working method and applied it to cinema. As lead actor Michel Subor notes in the supplements on this disc, Godard uses the camera like...
It may be difficult for most of us to imagine any reason to become a nun other than religious devotion and the belief in a higher calling. But in Jacques Rivette’s 1966 film La Religieuse (based on a novel by...
