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 Every Man for Himself originally ran as a home video review. 1980’s Every Man for Himself marked Jean-Luc Godard’s return, after ten years of more video, documentary and...
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Breathless originally ran as part of our reader-voted Top 100 Movies list. Jean-Luc Godard’s most famous film, Breathless follows the brief love affair between a man on the...
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 La Chinoise originally ran as a Criterion prediction. Taking place almost entirely within an apartment, La Chinoise establishes itself with Godardian dressings from the start, with red, white...
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...
The past month has hardly been lacking in quality viewing for me – I feel like I’m still digesting Basic Instinct, which I saw for the first time two weeks ago and very much look forward to revisiting down the...
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...
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...
