Archive for: film

Audio: Pauline Kael on the Auteur Theory

A reading of the great film critic’s classic rebuttal.

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Reverse Projections: Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville

If there was ever a story that needed to be transformed by the filmmaking process, the banal science-fiction pulp of Alphaville is it.

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Dick, Empowered

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Power to the Penis!

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Reverse Projections: Jean-Luc Godard’s Une Femme mariée (A Married Woman)

Godard renders the title character’s anomie as dispassionately as one might write out a math problem.

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Feel Good Muppets

Wouldn’t it have been kinder to have just shot the frog?

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A Dance to the Music of Youth: A Review of Godard’s Band of Outsiders

Adolescent bliss has never been captured better on film.

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N’est-ce pas dégueulasse?: A Reading of Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend

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.

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