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Jean-Luc Godard
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This book presents a varied selection of his conversations with critics, scholars, and journalists, spanning the 1960s to the 1990s and illuminating key facets of his life, work, and ideas.
Topics include the seductiveness of cinema (Films are the only things by which to look inside of people, and that's why people are so fond of movies and why they'll never die); film as a blend of truth and beauty (I mix images and sounds like a scientist, I hope. The mystery of the scientific is the same as the mystery of the artist. So is the misery); and the personal realities of aging (Maybe it's that when you get old, in one way you feel younger and younger but still being old-young oldness, if I may say so, which is very. . .comforting).
As challenging and evocative as they are quirky and unpredictable, these interviews cast light on Godard's lifelong position as a proudly unclassifiable thinker who feels, as he said in 1980, that a language is obviously made to cross borders. I'm someone whose real country is language, and whose territory is movies.
David Sterritt is an associate professor of film at Long Island University and film critic of The Christian Science Monitor.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
246
Release Date:
1998-09-15
Publication Date:
2010-12-22
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1578060818
ISBN13:
9781578060818
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Weight:
405 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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