Full name: Godard on Godard: Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard

Author: Jean-Luc Godard Year: 1985 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Movies, Non Fiction, Art, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780306802591 0306802597

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, and 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. Similar books: The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex by Mark Kermode Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskind How to Read a Film by James Monaco Understanding Movies by Louis Giannetti Sleazoid Express by Bill Landis The American Cinema: Directors And Directions 1929-1968 by Andrew Sarris Theory of Film by Siegfried Kracauer The Cinema Book by Pam Cook The Films in My Life by Francois Truffaut Spike, Mike, Slackers, & Dykes by John Pierson Hatchet Job by Mark Kermode Jean Renoir by Andre Bazin Cult Movies by Danny Peary Film History by Kristin Thompson Negative Space by Manny Farber The Great Movies by Roger Ebert In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch Awake in the Dark by Roger Ebert Film Directing Shot by Shot by Steven D. Katz