Jean-Luc Godard
Godard: Details
The Godard series at Film Forum continues on May 5 with Le Petit Soldat (1960), starring Anna Karina and Michel Subor, at 7:30 and 9:40; the presentation will include the short Charlotte et son Jules (1958). read more »
Get Your Godard
Also recommended, this time for people nostalgic for the hippie disorders and fractured politics of 1968, Jean-Luc Godard’s eerily prophetic and spectacularly stylized avant-garde dialectic La Chinoise (1967) with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Wiazemsky, Michael Semeniako, Juliet Berto and Lex de Bruijn (as Sergei Kirilov). The infinite variety of dissent and revisionism around the world is batted around here by Godard in his multifaceted Mao period. I once asked Mr. Léaud on one of his visits to New York to tell me point-blank who was his best and favorite director. read more »
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