Godard on Godard

by Jean-Luc Godard

Book Overview

Jean-Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cin ma to his later writings for Cahiers du Cin ma, reflects his dazzling intelligence, biting wit, maddening judgments, and complete unpredictability. In writing about Hitchcock, Welles, Bergman, Truffaut, Bresson, and Renoir, Godard is also writing about himself-his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306802597
• ISBN13: 9780306802591
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Interesting and arresting articles !

Godard displays all his unimaginable masterful in this set of reviews originally written for Les Cahiers du Cinema in the far Fifties . The charm , of this enfant terrible is present all alnog the text . The reviews about Orosn Welles , Ingmar Bergman , Francois Truffaut , Mizoguchi and his favorite western Seven men from now of Budd Boeticher (I have not watched it) are specially revealing . Acquire this book , because despite the fact you may argue these reviews are dated , constitute - and who denies? - a crucial period in the cinema story .

Godard and Films

I've just read the book and though it dragged at some points because I wasn't familiar with a couple of the films he was talking about it, the overall experience was uplifting. If you have the slightest interest in Godard and the New Wave read the book and get inside a New Wave director's head and see how he looks at films. The book contains a number of his Cahiers du Cinema reviews and articles, and some interviews he gave later in life. By the end of the book you finally begin to understand a little of how this genius thinks.

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