The Film Comment Podcast: Remembering Godard
Everything is cinema: Richard Brody and Blair McClendon join to discuss the extraordinary life, work, and influence of the late Jean-Luc Godard
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Everything is cinema: Richard Brody and Blair McClendon join to discuss the extraordinary life, work, and influence of the late Jean-Luc Godard
Godard’s body of work is peculiar in that, at the time of his death, it could be argued that he had not directed a genuinely significant work in half a century.
THIS YEAR’S DENSELY PACKED New York Film Festival, its sixtieth anniversary edition, just added a special event in honor of the late Jean-Luc Godard. The US landing point for most of the feature films the director made between 1963 and 2018 and the site of an extensive retrospective of his work in 2013, the festival will screen, during its first week, Godard’s final film, The Image Book, on a continuous loop in the amphitheater of the Elinor Bunin Center. Admission is free, but the quality of projection, and particularly the audio—which is crucial to the film—is, as I write, yet unknow...
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