FILM THEORY Ricciotto Canudo (1879–1923)
Two pdfs – no cut and paste:
The Birth of the Sixth Art
Reflections of the Seventh Art
wiki: Ricciotto Canudo
FILM SOUND Lucrecia Martel — “a decidedly polyphonic cinema”
Lucrecia Martel — “a decidedly polyphonic cinema”
Dominique Russell in Jump Cut
5 pages including plenty of pics / stills including references/notes
FILM WRITING – Shot and Counter-shot: Presence, Obscurity, and the breakdown of discourse in Godard’s Notre Musique
Shot and Counter-shot: Presence, Obscurity, and the breakdown of discourse in Godard’s Notre Musique
Burlin Barr, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Vol, 18 No. 2, 2010
ART FILM WRITING ~ Art, Politics, Cuts and Cracks and Innumerable Patches
Art, Politics, Cuts and Cracks and Innumerable Patches
Donal Foreman at donalforeman.com,
August 2010
FILM ~ En Attendant Godard, a review
En Attendant Godard, A Review
Mathew HoltMeier at Cinema Without Organs, 21 October 2009
FILM YOUTUBE The Colour of Pomegranates / Sayat Nova [1968]
The Colour of Pomegranates
Director Sergei Parajanov (English subtitles)
Deep Red: Joanne Nucho on The Color of Pomegranates
FILM E-BOOK How to Read a Film by James Monaco [in chapter sections]
How to Read a Film
By James Monaco (First published 1977)
Chapter 1. Film as Art
Chapter 2. Technology: Imagine and Sound
Chapter 3. The Language of Films: Signs and Syntax
Chapter 4. The Shape of Film History
Chapter 5. Film Theory: Form and Function
Chapter 6. Media: In the Middle of Things
Chapter 7. Multimedia: The Digital Revolution
FILM GODARD/TRUFFAUT ~ Reviews of Richard Brody’s Everything is cinema
Reviews of Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody [2008]
Kinbrody and the Ceejays: Richard Brody’s Everything Is Cinema
By Bill Krohn in cinemascope
Contempt:
A Review of Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008
by Adrian Martin
A Girl and a Gun
By Stephanie Zacharek, NYT, 13 July 2008
Everything Is Cinema and Criticism Is Nothing
Ed Howard, blog : Only the Cinema, 2 August 2008
Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard
Andrew Schenker, blog : The Cine File, 16 June 2009
Several notes on Brody’s Godard biography…
which works from Martin’s article
FILM Godard/Truffaut: reviews of documentary film Two in the Wave
Godard and Truffaut: Their spiky, complex friendship is its own great story in ‘Two in the Wave’
by Owen Gleiberman, 27 May 2010
Review of new documentary Two in the Wave
By Tobias Grey, FT, 21 January 2011
FILM GODARD INTERVIEW Jean-Luc Godard Speaks with Daniel Cohn-Bendit: A Smile That Dismisses the Universe
Jean-Luc Godard Speaks with Daniel Cohn-Bendit: A Smile That Dismisses the Universe
Translation into English by Craig Keller of interview/chat in French first published in Telerama August 2010
FILM GODARD ~ Godard’s Women- Feminism vs Marxism
Godard’s Women- Feminism vs Marxism
– A review on Godard’s women characters and his idea of feminism
By nom-de-plume Plath-ish (aaargh!)
This version has a different layout
FILM GODARD ~ Godard for Beginners
Godard for Beginners
From Dave Harris and Colleagues.
The files button at the bottom of the page has a whole lot of links on all sorts of subjects, some of which are film related.
FILM THEORY Francois Truffaut & Auteur Theory
Francois Truffaut & Auteur Theory
from Notes on Short film , which has done a set on auteur theory.
There is a link at the bottom to :
Truffaut’s manifesto: La Politique des Auteurs by Harry Tuttle
and the whole manifesto first published in Cahiers du Cinema in January 1954 translated into English:
A Certain Tendency of French Cinema
at My Gleanings.
The author of My Gleanings has created a bespoke blog that deals with A Certain Tendency, titled:
“The Bernanos Letter”: an inquiry into Francois Truffaut’s writing of A Certain Tendency
FILM Revise Cinematography
Cinematography
Pdf of 47 ppt slides also from Lisa Cook’s Website
FILM SHORT RIDLEY SCOTT Boy and Bicycle [1965]
Boy and Bicycle [1965] part 1/2
Boy and Bicycle part 2/2
Ridley Scott’s first film in two parts on YouTube. Stars his brother Tony Scott. 27 mins.
wiki: Boy and Bicycle
BFI Screenonline: Boy and Bicycle [1965]
FILM Revise Auteur Theory
The Auteur Theory
A pdf of 31 ppt slides from Lisa Cook’s Website covering the basics of auteur theory, including references.
FILM-MAKER SCREENWRITER Suzanne Schiffman
Godard, Schiffman, Truffaut on set of Farenheit 451 [1966]. She is credited as assistant to the director.
Obits: Guardian and Independent
Les Archives de script de Suzanne Schiffman : Godard au travail dans Pierrot le Fou
By Núria Aidelman
Facsimiles of typed and handwritten scripts and notes.
The French new wave: an artistic school By Michel Marie, Richard John Neupert [GoogleBook]
p. 77
Double Vision: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Careful Classic
Double Vision: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Careful Classic
Short review/essay of Criterion Blu-Ray, with a few well chosen words. Says Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu [Babel, Biutiful ] is Kieslowski’s direct descendant.
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