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Tag Archives: French New Wave
Shoot the Piano Player
Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) (1960) dir. François Truffaut Shoot the Piano Player was Truffaut’s second feature film, after The 400 Blows. Godard’s Breathless, which Truffaut wrote an initial treatment for, was released the same year. The two helped … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, film, François Truffaut, France, French New Wave, movies, Shoot the Piano Player, Tirez sur le pianiste, TSPDT
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Cléo de 5 à 7
Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961) dir. Agnès Varda Varda’s Cléo is part of the ‘Left Bank’ of the French New Wave. The Left Bank, including Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad) and Chris Marker (La Jetée) was … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnès Varda, cinema, Cléo de 5 à 7, Corinne Marchand, film, French New Wave, Left Bank, movies, TSPDT
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Godard’s Musical Comedy
Une femme est une femme (A Woman Is a Woman) (1961) – Jean-Luc Godard A Woman Is a Woman was Godard’s second released film, from 1961. This is back with young, playful, happy Godard; decades before the grumpy, mean, ole crotchety Godard … Continue reading
In Praise of Love (2001)
Éloge de l’Amour – In Praise of Love (2001) dir. Jean-Luc Godard When I last saw Jean-Luc Godard, he was a young French hipster freely blending Brecht, Marx, postmodernism, existentialism, and whatever else was en vogue, and re-inventing film as … Continue reading
Alphaville: Je vous aime vs. sola Ratio
Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965) dir. Jean-Luc Godard With the coming of the Enlightenment, we see a sort of secularization of the Protestant principle: sola Scriptura becomes sola Ratio. - Julián Carrón One of the central battles between … Continue reading
