As the new year and decade begins with a fresh horror show promising war, famine, and all manner of destruction, we can take really the most trifling degree of solace that the arts are reflecting our shared disillusionment and hopelessness....
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...