Audio: Pauline Kael on the Auteur Theory
A reading of the great film critic’s classic rebuttal.
If there was ever a story that needed to be transformed by the filmmaking process, the banal science-fiction pulp of Alphaville is it.
Godard renders the title character’s anomie as dispassionately as one might write out a math problem.
Adolescent bliss has never been captured better on film.
Godard has never aimed higher or lower; Weekend is his most visionary flight of imagination, as well as the most sordid thing he’s committed to film.