
by Allan Fish
this begins an infrequent series of films about childhood criminally neglected in the US to coincide with Sam’s childhood poll
(France-TV 1977 312m) not on DVD
Girl, boy, girl, boy…
p Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville d/w Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville ph Pierre Binggeli, William Lubtchansky, Dominique Chapuis, Philippe Rony
Albert Dray, Betty Berr, Camille Virolleaud, Arnaud Martin,
If one was to ask a selection of serious film buffs, critics and writers to name the single-most influential director in late 20th century culture, I’d be surprised if Jean-Luc Godard didn’t top the poll. He’s come to be seen as much as personification of the zeitgeist as a director, indeed often setting the tempo for what would become the daily zeitgeist. One would think then that his work was easily accessible, preserved on DVD and now Blu Ray in the way that the work of, say, Hitchcock, Scorsese or Bergman is. Yet this is only partly true; the canonical Godard has always existed, but it generally covers his work up to 1967-68; the experimental films that followed in the subsequent decades have always been somewhat harder to track down. There are still a few I have been unable to see, and until recently one of them was France/Tour/Detour/Deux/Enfants. It only became so when an old Channel 4 TV recording surfaced. (more…)
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