Showing posts with label Uncle Jean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uncle Jean. Show all posts
Monday, December 5, 2016

"Not a just image, but just an image...": Deceased Artiste Raoul Coutard

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Although his obits emphasized the fact that Raoul Coutard, who died in early November at age 92, pretty much stumbled into being a cinema...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Birthday trib 2: Godard at 80

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As my second birthday honoree, I want to salute once more Funhouse deity Jean-Luc Godard, aka “Uncle Jean” (from his indelibly eccentric cha...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Godard defends an mp3 downloader

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“There are no copyrights, only copy-duties.” So said Uncle Jean on the subjects of of intellectual property and copyright law. For those who...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Does God Really Need an Oscar, numero deux

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Two articles appeared this week relating to Uncle Jean getting the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oscars. The first confirmed that God...
Friday, August 27, 2010

Does "God" really need an Oscar?

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Every self-respecting film fan knows that the Oscars are a game that Hollywood plays with the world (and itself). Mainstream multiplex fare ...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

“No rights, only duties”: new interviews with Uncle Jean

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Since I wrote the blog post below, there has been more new Godard-info on the Net. The New York Times has published a review of Film Social...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Why I will continue to love Uncle Jean

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News about Godard's latest, Film Socialisme , upon its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Followers of his work, and readers of this ...
Thursday, April 8, 2010

Godard's latest provocation, and a tribute to his "brother" in cinema

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This week on the Funhouse I’m paying tribute to filmmakers whose work I love: the Kuchar brothers, Nicholas Ray, and Marco Ferreri. Thus, I ...
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Silence is Golden: Gerard Courant’s “Cinématon” portraits

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Yeah, go ahead and blame Andy Warhol again. Warhol’s various conceptual practices have lived on in a number of different ways, and his ...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Hidden in Plain Sight: Godard rarities on Daily Motion

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Though nowhere near the insane rabbit-hole that YouTube is, Daily Motion contains many clips that are not on YT: primarily things that have ...
Friday, August 7, 2009

Voices of the New Wave: translated vintage Cahiers

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As the world mourns the passing of a guy (that Hughes dude) whose career started with fairly decent articles in National Lampoon , proceeded...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

We welcome Socialisme: a new missive from Uncle Jean

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At this point when the cinema seems bankrupt of ideas and, more importantly, of reflection, it is a true joy to announce that one of the gre...
Friday, February 27, 2009

New Yorker Films unspools its last

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Arthouse film fans with long memories were depressed this week by the announcement of the closing of New Yorker Films, a firm that has been...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Godard's latest short available online

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Our hero Uncle Jean has once again produced a short film, weaving a "trailer" from old film, poetry, and classical music. I can’t ...
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