Pierre Bourdieu: “[Jean-Luc Godard] a du talent… Je comprend rien…” (by nicolasholzheu)
Jean-Luc Godard on François Truffaut (by awgreene8)
“Tu es menteur.”
Salaam America: What is Salaam America?
Salaam America was created by Fatima (whom no longer has a personal tumblr, so if you would like to contact her, please contact the project tumblr) and Nissa.
Mission: Getting rid of Islamophobia, we strive to reach this goal by meeting, interviewing and showing you, the…
This project is impressive.
Petit’s Mobile Station, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
photo by George Tice, 1974
This photograph captures an essence.
Breathless (1960)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Cinematographer: Raoul Coutard
I just watched Two in the Wave, a wonderful documentary about the friendship and the eventual disregard between Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut. I highly recommend the film if you are interested in how these cinéastes approached cinema. Jean-Pierre Léaud also figures prominently in the documentary. In some sense, he was the son to both directors, and now reflecting on it, it is a testament to his incredible acting that he could work with Truffaut and Godard.
Jean-Luc Godard, French New Wave film director: b. Dec. 3, 1930…
Photo of Godard directing Brigitte Bardot in Contempt (adapted from a novel by Alberto Moravia), 1963…
All hail Godard.
An Interview with Robert Bresson. Cannes. 1983
“It irritates me when people describe my films as works. That word simply doesn’t describe my films. What they are, I know Godard said this, but I said it long before him: my films are attempts, strivings. They are striving towards something that I know to be the final truth of the cinematograph. I’m following a path that I can see quite clearly, and I’m still traveling it, without yet having reached perfection. But I think I’ll get there.”
really want to start using “strivings” as a synonym for a director’s films. “akira kurosawa’s humanist ethos, as evident in his previous strivings, blah blah blah.” people would love that, i’m sure. although, while it’s a titanic filmmaker who coined the term, it seems most applicable when writing about the contemporary likes of Brett Ratner, whose efforts are only movies so far as the dictionary is concerned.
(VIA a-bittersweet-life)
Michelangelo Antonioni, L’eclisse (from Antonioni’s Environments)
The end of L’eclisse is one of the most brilliant and haunting film endings ever produced.
MON ONCLE Artwork By The Silver Screen Society
woooowwwws.
so it would seem as if Brandon Schaefer — of whom i’ve been a fan for quite a while — has joined forces with the likes of Trevor Bassetand Adam Hanson (of whom I’ve been a fan since i learned they joined forces with Brandon Schaefer) to form The Silver Screen Society. Their mission: to design insanely lovely and spirited tributes to their favorite films, one month at a time. Their website: ridiculous.
i really want to give them money in exchange for the privilege of owning physical versions of these things. in a related story, i really want to have the money to give them in exchange for the privilege of owning physical versions of these things. Oh well, let’s hopeo they make more Criterion-related stuff soon!
