Forms That Think: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard (Introduction) Daniel Fairfax January 2022 Forms That Think: Jean-Luc Godard On June 9, 1971, Jean-Luc Godard suffered from a sickening traffic accident, with the motorcycle that he used to zip around Paris colliding with a van. He was immediately taken to an intensive care unit, and wi...
“Slightly Out of Focus”: The Early Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Gerhard Richter Sally Shafto January 2022 Forms That Think: Jean-Luc Godard Is an indistinct photograph a picture of a person at all? Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn’t the indistinct one often exactly what we need? – Ludwig Wittge...
Jean-Luc Godard: Making Cinema on the Page Dork Zabunyan January 2022 Forms That Think: Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard began to write for film magazines at a very young age. He was twenty years old when he published his first articles in La Gazette du cinéma, the newsletter of the Ciné-Club du Quartier Latin in ...
Not the animal is blind, but the human being, blinded by consciousness and incapable of seeing the world. A Note on Roxy Miéville, Star of Jean-Luc Godard’s First Animal Picture, Adieu au Langage Vinzenz Hediger January 2022 Forms That Think: Jean-Luc Godard “With all of their eyes, animals behold openness.” – Rainer Maria Rilke, The Eight Duino Elegy (trans. Alfred Corn) “The meaning of the dog is the dog.” – Andrei Tarkovski In the general excitement over...
Unearthing a Forgotten Television Work by Jean-Luc Godard Michael Witt July 2020 Feature Articles In 2016 I was conducting research for an article about a forgotten experimental montage film that Jean-Luc Godard had created and screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival in February 1981, where he had combined ...
Recollections of Coproducing Two Videos by Jean-Luc Godard for Prime-Time on Télévision Suisse Romande: Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie)) (1981) and Scénario du film Passion (1982) Raymond Vouillamoz July 2020 Feature Articles Spécial Cinéma Spécial Cinéma was a weekly programme on Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR, public broadcaster in French-speaking Switzerland). First broadcast on September 25, 1974 it came to an end in the spring...
Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) Daniel Fairfax March 2017 Love Letters: 1967 End of Story, End of Cinema: Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend was released in Paris on December 29, 1967, capping a calendar year in which he premiered no less than three features and ...
All the Histories: A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard by Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline (eds) Adrian Danks September 2015 Book Reviews In the opening paragraph of their introduction to A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard, Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline situate a particular cinephilic response to the great Swiss filmmaker’s work in terms of where...
“…what I was seeking in my history of cinema was to be less alone”: Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television by Jean-Luc Godard (trans. and ed. Timothy Barnard) Michael Cramer June 2015 Book Reviews Caboose Books’ edition of Jean-Luc Godard’s Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television, translated and edited by Timothy Barnard, collects the lectures that Godard delivered between April and Octob...
“The Image Will Come at the Time of the Resurrection”: Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema Historian by Michael Witt Daniel Fairfax July 2014 Book Reviews On the concluding page of his study of Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998), Michael Witt tells us of the publication of a collection of cinema-related tales titled Quelques histoires de cinéma i...
“Mange ta soupe”: Introduction to the Bourseillers on Jean-Luc Godard Sally Shafto August 2008 Before the Revolution Published here for the first time in English, translator Sally Shafto provides a brief context for the two pieces that follow by Antoine and Christophe Bourseiller on their encounters with Godard.
The American Friend: Tom Luddy on Jean-Luc Godard Brad Stevens August 2007 Feature Articles Tom Luddy was the principal conduit for almost all of Godard’s forays into the North American film scene. From Godard’s ‘Dziga Vertov’ tours to his association with Francis Coppola’s Zoetrope, Luddy played a crucial role.
6 or 7 DVDs: Jean-Luc Godard in Region 4 Matthew Clayfield February 2007 DVD Reviews Six years ago, in the pages of this journal, former director of the Melbourne International Film Festival Geoff Gardner described the DVD distribution of Jean-Luc Godard’s films as both “spotty and, really, rat...
Jean-Luc Godard Exhibition: Travel(s) in Utopia, Jean-Luc Godard 1946-2006, In Search of a Lost Theorem Alex Munt July 2006 Special Dossiers, The Godard Museum Insightful reflections on the major Godard exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Before and After: Origins and Death in the Work of Jean-Luc Godard André Habib September 2001 French Cinema Present and Past Habib illuminates the Godardian motifs of beginnings and endings, crucifixions and resurrections, origins and destinations from biographical, historical and poetic angles.
The Man with the Magnétoscope – Jean-Luc Godard’s Monumental Histoire(s) du cinéma as SoundImageTextBook Alexander Horwath July 2001 Garrel & Godard (Pt 2) With passion and insight, Horwath discusses the "baroque" logic of the Histoire(s).
Der Mann mit dem Magnetoskop – Jean-Luc Godards monumentale “Geschichte(n) des Kinos” als TonBildTextBuch Alexander Horwath July 2001 Garrel & Godard (Pt 2) Der folgende Text wurde im Dezember 1998 verfaßt und veröffentlicht in: TAZ (Berlin), Basler Zeitung (Basel), Die Presse (Wien). * * * "Die Erlebnisse unserer Sinne sind nämlich beinahe ebenso konservativ...
When Godard’s Characters Leave Civilisation Behind Mariam Razmadze January 2022 Forms That Think: Jean-Luc Godard “True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.” - Arthur Rimbaud No other director of the French New Wave has explored the theme of what we could call “elsewhereness” better than Jean-Luc Godard. While t...
Nature/Politics in Godard: Notes towards an Investigation David Fresko January 2022 Forms That Think: Jean-Luc Godard The role of nature in Godard’s films has been widely commented upon, and often with great lucidity. This is a consequence of the fact that ever since Godard “returned” to commercial filmmaking in 1979 with Sauv...
When Everything is Said: Eisenstein’s Stone Lion in Histoire(s) du cinema and Godardian Historiography Pablo Gonzalez Ramalho January 2022 Forms That Think: Jean-Luc Godard Among the many spiralling sequences that make Bronenosets Potemkin (Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein, 1926) a major example of what the Soviet director achieved in terms of montage, the stone lion sequenc...
Thinking Back, Thinking Forward: Utopian Television: Rossellini, Watkins, and Godard Beyond Cinema, by Michael Cramer Jonathan Wright March 2018 Book Reviews Michael Cramer’s new book, Utopian Television, is an impressively constructed work of scholarship that does more than display certain utopian trends in its three subjects; it traces a discursive movement of uto...
Models of the Public Intellectual: Cinema and Engagement in Sartre and Godard Daniel Fairfax September 2017 Sartre at the Movies In the last fifteen years, no less than three biographies have been dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard. Of the three, Richard Brody’s Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard from 2008 is indisputabl...
Entering the Chiastic Multimedia: Encounters with Godard: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics, by James S. Williams Jonathan Wright December 2016 Book Reviews Much of Jean-Luc Godard’s most innovative intriguing work occurred after his period of militant Marxism in the late 1960s. Although far fewer of his “late period” films garnered the societal and critical acclai...
Godard after Farocki: Questions left open and questions unasked in Volker Pantenburg’s Film as Theory Toni Hildebrandt June 2015 Book Reviews “With Godard, and with Brecht, it seems to me as if they had only proclaimed a method, without having begun to work with it. In fact, even Godard issues empty proclamations, namely: this is how film could expre...
Notre musique: Godard’s Shot/Reverse Shot Ruminations on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Christopher Weedman March 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film An admitted anti-Zionist with a history of ardent support for Palestinian opposition to Israel, Jean-Luc Godard frequently uses his films as a forum in which to ruminate on this contentious political conflict. ...
godard english cannes: The Reception of Film Socialisme‘s “Navajo English” Subtitles Samuel Bréan October 2011 Feature Articles Samuel Bréan, founding member of the French Association of Audiovisual Translators, offers some absorbing insights in to Godard’s subtitling strategies.
“The film we had imagined”, or: Anna and Jean-Luc Go To the Movies Adrian Danks July 2010 Feature Articles What is the particular dynamic at play in films featuring movie-going? Adrian Danks explores the film-within-a-film mode in range of movies, everything from Sullivan’s Travels to Vivre sa vie and more.
Godard’s Comic Strip Mise-en-Scène Drew Morton December 2009 Feature Articles Taking the three films Made in USA, La Chinoise and Tout va bien as a focus, Drew Morton looks at how Jean-Luc Godard (and Jean-Pierre Gorin in the latter case) engaged with the art of the comic strip.
“1963-1968. Paris: The Godard Years” Antoine Bourseiller August 2008 Before the Revolution A chapter from Bourseiller’s memoir Sans relâche: Histoires d’une vie which offers a rich and moving account of his friendship with Godard.
On Painting and History in Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma Sally Shafto July 2006 Special Dossiers, The Godard Museum “What are all these paintings doing in a history of cinema?” The author gives an answer in her analysis of Godard’s monumental video work, which approximates André Malraux’s concept of the imaginary museum.
Leap into the Void: Godard and the Painter Sally Shafto May 2006 Cinema and the Pictorial “In painting, I know of no one who went further than Nicolas de Staël.” – Jean-Luc Godard. An insightful discussion of the profound affinities between the great painter and the equally great filmmaker who held his work in such high esteem.
Nostalgia for the Present: The Godard Renaissance Continued Glen W. Norton April 2005 Feature Articles Appropriately, Jean-Luc Godard's cinema remains an endless source of fascination for film criticism. Another account of Godard's æsthetics from a passionate admirer.
End Game: Some thoughts provoked by recent exhibitions, and Godard’s Éloge de l’amour Jon Jost January 2003 Feature Articles Considering the work of three artists, Jost reflects thoughtfully and personally on the course of a 'creative' life and the idea of change, growth and vitality for an artist.
Between Seeing and Reading – A Report on the Reading Godard Conference Glen W. Norton May 2002 Festival Reports Reading Godard: Intertextuality And The Film And Video Work Of Jean-Luc Godard April 5 - April 7, 2002, University of Iowa Before arriving in Iowa City for the Reading Godard conference, I had only a va...
For Ever Godard Reviewed Hilary Radner July 2001 Festival Reports For Ever Godard, June 21 - 24, Tate Modern, London For Ever Godard, a conference held at the Tate Modern on June 21 through June 24, gathered together an impressive array of scholars and critics associat...
A Tale of Two Conferences: For Ever Godard and Garrel Éternel Maximilian Le Cain July 2001 Festival Reports For Ever Godard, June 21 - 24, Tate Modern, London Garrel Éternel, June 26 - 27, Irish Film Centre, Dublin "Jean-Luc Godard? Is he still working? I thought... well, I thought he was dead." It's a depres...