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Film Socialisme

Film Socialisme

Jean-Luc Godard tells story of Europe in decline

(4 stars)29 Jul 2011

(PG) 101min Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme is about as difficult a film as you’ll see this or any other year, but if some will conclude the film is unwatchable, it might be useful to say why that is so, why it may even be partly intentional on…

Paris Va Par

Paris Va Par

(4 stars)4 Dec 2009

(15) 95min (Artificial Eye) Long overdue reissue of above average 1964 portmanteau film featuring the youthful efforts of some of the French New Wave’s finest. The idea was to invite six directors to contribute a short film named after and set in a…

Pierrot Le Fou

Pierrot Le Fou

(5 stars)14 May 2009

Jean Luc Godard’s delightful 1965 lovers on the run pastiche is reissued on a new digital print. This politically astute homage to American genre cinema marked Godard’s departure from the new wave to more political forms of filmmaking. If you haven’t…

Histoire(s) du cinéma

Histoire(s) du cinéma

(4 stars)30 Oct 2008

At one moment in this four and a half hour documentary on the history of cinema, Jean-Luc Godard muses over why what we remember of Hitchcock’s films, for example, isn’t the motivation of the characters, but the specific images, like the glass of milk…

Shine a Light

Shine a Light

(2 stars)10 Apr 2008

DOCUMENTARY/CONCERT (12A) 122min It was customary in early Greek and Roman books to have the portrait of the author on the opening page. Martin Scorsese brings this tradition to his Rolling Stones concert movie. The opening exchanges depict the…

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