Ahead of BAMcinématek’s new restoration of A Married Woman we offer a primer on the new wave auteur’s essential work Related: Close up: Jean-Luc Godard pronounces film dead Godard is as revolutionary and influential a hinge-figure in cinema as Joyce was to literature and the cubists were to portray. He saw a rule and broke it. Every day,in every film. Incorporating what professionals thought of as mistakes (jump-cuts were only the most renowned instance), mixing high culture and low without snobbish distinctions, or demolishing the fourth wall between viewing himself as a maker of fictional documentaries,essay movies, and viewing his movies as an inseparable extension of his pioneering work as a film critic for Cahiers du Cinema in the 1950s. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com