Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World review – giddy Romanian experiment Freewheeling essay-movie-slash-black-comedy collage takes swipes from all angles at modern life The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2023
Jane Birkin: a tremendous screen presence with a gift for creative collaboration Birkin made a sensational impact in Blow-Up, and went on to become a classy performer for a number of major French directors – notably Godard and Agnès Varda The Guardian - UK · Jul 16, 2023
Wes Anderson has an obsessive, systematic repetition of stylistic choices. He’s perfect for this TikTok meme Iconoclastic film director Wes Anderson says of his films: The Conversation · May 11, 2023
The full credit list featured at the beginning of Tár is a nod to the hidden hierarchies of labour in screen production In a recent interview on her portrayal of a renowned (fictional) female conductor, the autocratic maestro Lydia Tár, Cate Blanchett noted ways in which orchestral music-making is not a democratic enterprise. Neither is film-making. The Conversation · Mar 14, 2023
‘I’m a film-maker because of him’: Herzog, Swinton, Rushdie and more on Tom Luddy, cinema’s quiet titan Friends and film-makers including Errol Morris, Laurie Anderson and Adam Curtis on the brilliance of Telluride’s Tom Luddy, who has died aged 79 The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2023
Telluride Film Festival co-founder Tom Luddy dies at 79 Tom Luddy, who co-founded the Telluride Film Festival as part of a long and varied career in the film industry, has died at age 79. Los Angeles Times · Feb 14, 2023
Jean-Luc Godard remembered by Caroline Champetier The cinematographer recalls working with the radical French director, a man who transformed cinema and survived on omelettes and beer The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2022
‘The fear of a bad death’: France to begin citizens' debate on end-of-life care A French citizens' council of 150 members of the public will meet Friday to begin discussions on end-of-life care, including whether assisted suicide should be legalised. As French laws have evolved over the last two decades, calls have increased to allow medically assisted deaths for terminally ill patients. France 24 · Dec 7, 2022
What links The White Lotus to Tom Wolfe and the Sicilian good life? The second series of the scathing social satire ignites a chain of terrible rich people swanning about in Italy The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2022
New York Film Festival fetes 60 years with eye to the future Like a pair of moviegoers huddled in debate outside a movie theater, the past and future of film converge in conversation at the New York Film Festival, which on Friday launches its 60th edition with the premiere of Noah Baumbach’s Don DeLillo adaptation, “White Noise.” The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2022
Letter: Jean-Luc Godard obituary Clyde Jeavons writes: director was once ejected from the National Film Theatre for attacking a producer The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022
Nicholas Goldberg: Should our aid-in-dying laws be expanded, or are we moving too far too fast? To take advantage of California's narrowly drawn assisted suicide law one must be terminally ill, with only six months to live, as certified by not one but two doctors. Los Angeles Times · Sep 20, 2022
Jean-Luc Godard: Master of French cinema who pushed boundaries At his best, the Franco-Swiss film director and Young Turk of the New Wave was responsible for some of the most sublime moments of 1960s screen time The Independent UK · Sep 17, 2022
My Jean-Luc Godard movie marathon: How I watched his collected works, in chronological order I am one of the Godard-obsessed. Los Angeles Times · Sep 15, 2022
The Conversation · Sep 15, 2022 Jean-Luc Godard: how his prickly fragmented filmmaking asked all the right questions Jean-Luc Godard, who has died at the age of 91, was the last survivor of the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague), the immensely influential movement of rebellious young filmmakers and critics who ensured that French cinema was the focus of film goers’ attention at the start of the 1960s.
The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2022 Jean-Luc Godard’s films teach us to demand more from the lives we’re given The work of the French-Swiss director, who died this week, is playful – but deadly serious about what life is for, says author Lynsey Hanley
The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2022 Thursday briefing: What’s behind Sweden’s lurch to the right In today’s newsletter: A country that once favoured open borders and internationalism has embraced anti-immigration rhetoric – and now a political party with extremist roots has come to power
Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 15, 2022 French Cinema Giant Jean-Luc Godard Dies Aged 91 Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century and the father of the French New Wave, died "peacefully at home" on Tuesday aged 91, his family said. His legal counsel later confirmed he died by assisted suicide.
France 24 · Sep 14, 2022 Final cut: Looking back at Jean-Luc Godard's cinematic genius The kinetic, experimental style of films like "Breathless" and "Pierrot le Fou" saw Jean-Luc Godard crowned among the leading lights of the French New Wave. Following the Franco-Swiss filmmaker's death at 91, Lisa Nesselson tells us how Godard's formal innovations revolutionised European cinema, bringing Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Anna Karina…
Los Angeles Times · Sep 14, 2022 Appreciation: Jean-Luc Godard, a master of cinema who changed the medium forever Of all the endlessly quotable maxims and aphorisms that have poured from the mouth and the movies of Jean-Luc Godard — "All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun," "The cinema is truth at 24 frames per second," "A story should have a beginning, a…
The Guardian - UK · Sep 14, 2022 ‘Godard shattered cinema’: Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute He was the explosively talented film-maker who changed cinema for all time. But what did other directing giants make of this movie legend – and did they find his latter films unwatchable?
Evening Standard · Sep 14, 2022 Cinema pioneer Jean-Luc Godard died of assisted suicide, says lawyer Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland if offered without ‘selfish motive’
The Conversation · Sep 14, 2022 Jean-Luc Godard has died. He redefined what film is, and leaves a staggering legacy So, adieu Jean-Luc Godard. The titan of French cinema has died, aged 91, leaving behind a staggering legacy.
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Chicago Tribune · Sep 13, 2022 Jean-Luc Godard appreciation: ‘I want to know the future. Don’t you?’ “At the cinema, we do not think, we are thought,” wrote the 19-year-old critic and future filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard in 1950. This is how strongly Godard responded to the screen, his future canvas. And our eternal wonder.