In a roundup on new books, we point to an excerpt from Michael Koresky's Terence Davies, gather reviews of Paul Cronin's collection of interviews with Werner Herzog, cite Jonathan Rosenbaum's recommendation of Michael Witt’s book on Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma (no other book on late Godard "seems quite as durable, both as a beautiful object and as a user-friendly intellectual guide"), make note of strong reviews for a volume on Paul Thomas Anderson and consider the origins of British noir. » - David Hudson...
- 9/7/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
In a roundup on new books, we point to an excerpt from Michael Koresky's Terence Davies, gather reviews of Paul Cronin's collection of interviews with Werner Herzog, cite Jonathan Rosenbaum's recommendation of Michael Witt’s book on Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma (no other book on late Godard "seems quite as durable, both as a beautiful object and as a user-friendly intellectual guide"), make note of strong reviews for a volume on Paul Thomas Anderson and consider the origins of British noir. » - David Hudson...
- 9/7/2014
- Keyframe
With Issue 71, Senses of Cinema revamps its site to offer, as administrator Stuart Richards puts it, "an enhanced navigational experience and a responsive design." And it's looking good. New book reviews editor Daniel Fairfax is all over this new issue. He interviews Sergio Caballero (Finisterrae, La Distancia), writes about Jean-Pierre Léaud's performance in Jacques Rivette's Out 1 (1971), files a report on Cannes 2014, and reviews Michael Witt's new book, Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema Historian, a study of Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998). Also in today's roundup: Jonathan Rosenbaum on the working class in American cinema, Michael Pattison on Oscar Micheaux, Peter Bogdanovich on Orson Welles and more. » - David Hudson...
- 7/14/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
With Issue 71, Senses of Cinema revamps its site to offer, as administrator Stuart Richards puts it, "an enhanced navigational experience and a responsive design." And it's looking good. New book reviews editor Daniel Fairfax is all over this new issue. He interviews Sergio Caballero (Finisterrae, La Distancia), writes about Jean-Pierre Léaud's performance in Jacques Rivette's Out 1 (1971), files a report on Cannes 2014, and reviews Michael Witt's new book, Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema Historian, a study of Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998). Also in today's roundup: Jonathan Rosenbaum on the working class in American cinema, Michael Pattison on Oscar Micheaux, Peter Bogdanovich on Orson Welles and more. » - David Hudson...
- 7/14/2014
- Keyframe
Introduction
In Laissez-passer [Safe Conduct], the film that the French director Bertrand Tavernier made in 2002, we see the French film industry of the Occupation years as a ruined and almost shut-down institution that is highly dependent on the factor of chance. In his story, Tavernier exculpates one of the key figures of the occupation cinema, Henri-Georges Clouzot, from the accusation of collaborating with the Nazis. He pictures Clouzot as a man whose Jewish wife has been held hostage by the Nazis and, and against all odds, he finishes Le corbeau about the vicious and nasty people of a small town in France, where someone is sending poison pen letters to its "honourable" citizens. Le corbeau became a very popular box-office hit during the Occupation, and, at the same time, the underground press attacked it for showing France as a land of the degenerate and perverted people, a view that, according to accusers,...
In Laissez-passer [Safe Conduct], the film that the French director Bertrand Tavernier made in 2002, we see the French film industry of the Occupation years as a ruined and almost shut-down institution that is highly dependent on the factor of chance. In his story, Tavernier exculpates one of the key figures of the occupation cinema, Henri-Georges Clouzot, from the accusation of collaborating with the Nazis. He pictures Clouzot as a man whose Jewish wife has been held hostage by the Nazis and, and against all odds, he finishes Le corbeau about the vicious and nasty people of a small town in France, where someone is sending poison pen letters to its "honourable" citizens. Le corbeau became a very popular box-office hit during the Occupation, and, at the same time, the underground press attacked it for showing France as a land of the degenerate and perverted people, a view that, according to accusers,...
- 7/16/2012
- MUBI
The Montreal-based independent publisher caboose has been working for five years on a volume that'll finally be out in September, Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television by Jean-Luc Godard. "In 1978, just before returning to the international stage for the second phase of his career," Godard "improvised a series of 14 one-hour talks at Concordia University in Montreal as part of a projected video history of cinema. These talks, published in French in 1980 and long out of print, have never before been translated into English. For this edition, the faulty and incomplete French transcription has been entirely revised and corrected, working from the sole videotape copies of the lectures, housed in the Concordia University archives. For this project, Godard screened for a dozen or so students his own famous films of the 1960s — watching them himself for the first time since their production — alongside single reels of some of...
- 4/5/2012
- MUBI
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