La Nuit américaine
Anyone who has ever worked on a film (underground, independent or otherwise) will appreciate La Nuit américaine (1973) all the more. Working on a film is living in an insular… Read more »
Tag: Jean-Pierre Léaud
Le Gai savoir
Le Gai savoir (1969) finds Jean-Luc Godard in a period of transition. At the time Godard was becoming progressively more radically Marxist while, as an artist, he was attempting to… Read more »
Irma Vep
Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep (1996) is something of a contemporary classic. I love the idea that a French filmmaker would watch The Heroic Trio (1993) on LaserDisc and cast Maggie… Read more »
A Girl Is A Gun
“In art there is only artifice“-Luc Moullet When one thinks of the American West one may recall the vistas of John Ford, prints by Mort Künstler, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood,… Read more »
