Godard on Godard : critical writings by Jean-Luc Godard
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Godard on Godard : critical writings by Jean-Luc Godard
（A Da Capo paperback）
Da Capo Press, [1986] c1972
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Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard
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Translation of Jean-Luc Godard
Filmography: p. 292
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 Cinema to his later writings for Cahiers du Cinema, 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 own experiments, obsessions, discoveries. This book offers evidence that he may be even more original as a thinker about film than as a director. Covering the period of 1950-1967, the years of Breathless, A Woman Is a Woman, My Life to Live, Alphaville, La Chinoise, and Weekend, this book of writings is an important document and a fascinating study of a vital stage in Godard's career. With commentary by Tom Milne and Richard Roud, and an extensive new foreword by Annette Michelson that reassesses Godard in light of his later films, here is an outrageous self-portrait by a director who, even now, continues to amaze and bedevil, and to chart new directions for cinema and for critical thought about its history.
Table of Contents
* Introduction by Richard Roud * Early Texts: 1950-1952 * Return to Criticism and First Short Films: August 1956-January 1958 * The Year of A Bout de Souffle: January-July 1959 * Marginal Notes While Filming: August 1959-August 1967 * Commentary by Tom Milne
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