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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Sept 13, 2022 7:58:18 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/13/jean-luc-godard-giant-of-the-french-new-wave-dies-at-91I must shamefully admit for a film buff I've really neglected the French new wave films. But Godard's Breathless is absolutely incredible. If you've never watched it I can't recommend it enough. It is available on HBO Max. It is probably also available on Kanopy I'd imagine, though I can't confirm that at the moment. (Kanopy is a free streaming service available through many libraries, specializing in classic and world cinema)
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Post by Fake Jesus on Sept 13, 2022 8:59:01 GMT -5
Godard is absolutely the most important filmmaker since WW2. His films aren't for everyone, and some of them might not be for anyone, but it's hard not to respect what he did first as a film critic and then as a director. Cinema would literally not look as it does today without him and Truffaut, whether that's something as easy and popular as a montage of the protagonist in a romcom doing things with a pop song playing, or anything as aggressively stylized as Wong Kar Wei, Tarantino, or Edgar Wright. He was probably the last major director of the midcentury European arthouse scene and, definitely, the last of the modernists - he was the James Joyce of movies
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 13, 2022 9:06:56 GMT -5
But Godard's Breathless is absolutely incredible. If you've never watched it I can't recommend it enough. It was one of the movies I studied in film class at college, and I couldn't agree more.
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