Archive for: Jean-Luc Godard

Reverse Projections: Jean-Luc Godard’s Made in U. S. A.

Made in U. S. A. embodies the meaning of the term “Godardian” when used as an insult.

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“Band” “of” “Outsiders”

I need less winking in my whimsy.

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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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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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A Bout de Souffle (Breathless)

An illustrated shot-by-shot remake of Breathless.

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Contempt: A Visual Reading and Other Loose Ends

Contempt is about the impossibility of loving in a world where The Odyssey can’t be filmed.

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Betatown

A poem for Alphaville.

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