Sat January 31, 2015
Histoire(s) du cinéma (Chapters 1 and 2) (Jean-Luc Godard; France, 1988–98)
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at PFA Theater
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Continues on Sunday / 2.1.15
“Perhaps the greatest capstone of (Godard's) career . . . sure to be one of his most enduring legacies.”—David Sterritt
((Hi)story(ies) of Cinema)
Godard mourns the death of cinema and chronicles its vitality in the dazzling video series Histoire(s) du cinéma. Histoire(s) du cinema emphasizes the influence film exercises on viewers—the impact of an image, the different realities that it provides, and the various frames of mind it engenders. Godard's purpose in these elliptical, epigrammatic montage essays is, he says, "to show that the history of film is, first of all, not history but consisting of histories. And then show that all histories are intertwined with the history of the twentieth century....Not showing a chronological order, names or dates, but a gust of wind, starting from the basic idea that the entire twentieth century was the stage for a merciless fight between image and sound (the newborn) and word (the grown–up, the government)."
Chapter 1(a), Toutes les histoires (All the (Hi)stories) (51 mins).
Chapter 1(b), Une histoire seule (One Single (Hi)story) (42 mins).
Chapter 2(a), Seul le cinéma (Only Cinema) (27 mins).
Chapter 2(b), Fatale beauté (Deadly Beauty) (28 mins).
• Written by Godard. (148 mins, plus intermission, In French with English subtitles, B&W/Color, Beta SP, From Gaumont, permission Olive Films)
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“Perhaps the greatest capstone of (Godard's) career . . . sure to be one of his most enduring legacies.”—David Sterritt
((Hi)story(ies) of Cinema)
Godard mourns the death of cinema and chronicles its vitality in the dazzling video series Histoire(s) du cinéma. Histoire(s) du cinema emphasizes the influence film exercises on viewers—the impact of an image, the different realities that it provides, and the various frames of mind it engenders. Godard's purpose in these elliptical, epigrammatic montage essays is, he says, "to show that the history of film is, first of all, not history but consisting of histories. And then show that all histories are intertwined with the history of the twentieth century....Not showing a chronological order, names or dates, but a gust of wind, starting from the basic idea that the entire twentieth century was the stage for a merciless fight between image and sound (the newborn) and word (the grown–up, the government)."
Chapter 1(a), Toutes les histoires (All the (Hi)stories) (51 mins).
Chapter 1(b), Une histoire seule (One Single (Hi)story) (42 mins).
Chapter 2(a), Seul le cinéma (Only Cinema) (27 mins).
Chapter 2(b), Fatale beauté (Deadly Beauty) (28 mins).
• Written by Godard. (148 mins, plus intermission, In French with English subtitles, B&W/Color, Beta SP, From Gaumont, permission Olive Films)
Continues on Sunday / 2.1.15
“Perhaps the greatest capstone of (Godard's) career . . . sure to be one of his most enduring legacies.”—David Sterritt
((Hi)story(ies) of Cinema)
Godard mourns the death of cinema and chronicles its vitality in the dazzling video series Histoire(s) du cinéma. Histoire(s) du cinema emphasizes the influence film exercises on viewers—the impact of an image, the different realities that it provides, and the various frames of mind it engenders. Godard's purpose in these elliptical, epigrammatic montage essays is, he says, "to show that the history of film is, first of all, not history but consisting of histories. And then show that all histories are intertwined with the history of the twentieth century....Not showing a chronological order, names or dates, but a gust of wind, starting from the basic idea that the entire twentieth century was the stage for a merciless fight between image and sound (the newborn) and word (the grown–up, the government)."
Chapter 1(a), Toutes les histoires (All the (Hi)stories) (51 mins).
Chapter 1(b), Une histoire seule (One Single (Hi)story) (42 mins).
Chapter 2(a), Seul le cinéma (Only Cinema) (27 mins).
Chapter 2(b), Fatale beauté (Deadly Beauty) (28 mins).
• Written by Godard. (148 mins, plus intermission, In French with English subtitles, B&W/Color, Beta SP, From Gaumont, permission Olive Films)
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“Perhaps the greatest capstone of (Godard's) career . . . sure to be one of his most enduring legacies.”—David Sterritt
((Hi)story(ies) of Cinema)
Godard mourns the death of cinema and chronicles its vitality in the dazzling video series Histoire(s) du cinéma. Histoire(s) du cinema emphasizes the influence film exercises on viewers—the impact of an image, the different realities that it provides, and the various frames of mind it engenders. Godard's purpose in these elliptical, epigrammatic montage essays is, he says, "to show that the history of film is, first of all, not history but consisting of histories. And then show that all histories are intertwined with the history of the twentieth century....Not showing a chronological order, names or dates, but a gust of wind, starting from the basic idea that the entire twentieth century was the stage for a merciless fight between image and sound (the newborn) and word (the grown–up, the government)."
Chapter 1(a), Toutes les histoires (All the (Hi)stories) (51 mins).
Chapter 1(b), Une histoire seule (One Single (Hi)story) (42 mins).
Chapter 2(a), Seul le cinéma (Only Cinema) (27 mins).
Chapter 2(b), Fatale beauté (Deadly Beauty) (28 mins).
• Written by Godard. (148 mins, plus intermission, In French with English subtitles, B&W/Color, Beta SP, From Gaumont, permission Olive Films)
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