August 15, 2008 – 8:55 am
Tropic Thunder and its fiasco retardo. The Clone Wars assaults weary Star Wars fans, but Karina’s watch list saves the day.
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August 13, 2008 – 1:44 pm
Meetin’ WA (1986)
by Tomsutpen
Thanks to Matt Prigge, I’ve spent the past 26 minutes watching Meetin’ WA, a 26-minute film about Woody Allen, shot in New York by Jean-Luc Godard. A good portion of the short is dedicated to a fairly formal, almost junket-style interview, with Godard asking the questions, sometimes with the help of a [...]
August 11, 2008 – 3:00 pm
Another list of films within films, only this one is a more serious calling for non-existent films I wish existed.
The American icon comes out to his retrospective at BAM to talk about Godard, global catastrophe, and the lasting prescience of LITTLE MURDERS.
Why has the NY Times published two, not wildly discordant reviews of the latest Godard bio?
In more than a century of cinema, tons of films have upset different religious groups. Here are 15 of the worst offenders in alphabetical order.
What if Godard’s Rolling Stones film isn’t just a novel artifact of its era, but a flailing confession from a filmmaker on the brink of losing it, and stab at using the personal to ameliorate the loss of political control?
The Titanic filmmaker is out to show us that 3D is not all gimmick and spectacle.
February 26, 2008 – 4:02 pm
The gorgeous Criterion version of Jean Luc-Godard’s Pierrot le Fou hits stores today. Because I’m date dyslexic, I accidentally posted my review of the film and the set a week early, but you can read it here. To get in the mood, watch the film’s original trailer above.
February 19, 2008 – 9:00 am
Jean-Luc Godard’s autobiographical masterpiece about the death of romance gets the Criterion treatment today.
