With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum (Sophie Bassaler)
When one conjures iconic memories from cinema history, they might be of your favorite shot or sequence, but my mind often travels to behind-the-scenes photos featuring director, cast, crew, and beyond. These photographs often have a unifying connection: they come from Magnum Photos. Since 1947, the photographic cooperative — founded by such iconic names as Robert Capa amd Henri Cartier-Bresson — has been responsible...
Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum (Sophie Bassaler)
When one conjures iconic memories from cinema history, they might be of your favorite shot or sequence, but my mind often travels to behind-the-scenes photos featuring director, cast, crew, and beyond. These photographs often have a unifying connection: they come from Magnum Photos. Since 1947, the photographic cooperative — founded by such iconic names as Robert Capa amd Henri Cartier-Bresson — has been responsible...
- 10/20/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
In the midst of the summer movie season, it might feel like your brain is beginning to atrophy after a blitzkrieg of blockbusters. However, if you’re looking to exercise your intellect, Jean Luc-Godard‘s “Le Gai Savoir” should do the trick.
Given a beautiful, 2K restoration, the film stars Jean-Pierre Leaud and Juliet Berto, and follows two young militants as they deconstruct the language of revolution, politics, culture, and more.
Continue reading Exclusive: Clip From Jean-Luc Godard’s Newly Restored ‘Le Gai Savoir’ Dissolves Image & Sound at The Playlist.
Given a beautiful, 2K restoration, the film stars Jean-Pierre Leaud and Juliet Berto, and follows two young militants as they deconstruct the language of revolution, politics, culture, and more.
Continue reading Exclusive: Clip From Jean-Luc Godard’s Newly Restored ‘Le Gai Savoir’ Dissolves Image & Sound at The Playlist.
- 7/28/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
“It’s the Little Red Book / That makes it all move”
On the tail end of his lauded New Wave period, seminal filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard began to move towards a new realm of cinema, best exemplified by his 1967 political feature, “La Chinioise,” a woozy and modern take on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1872 novel “The Possessed” that married some of the auteur’s signature obsessions — from tracking shots to a star turn from Jean-Pierre Léaud — with a new bent towards political motivations.
Godard continued to traffic in such films for the next decade, spurned by his infamous desire to spend his time “making political films politically,” and “La Chinoise” was followed by offerings like “Le Gai Savoir” and “Tout Va Bien,” which continued to share Godard’s constantly evolving vision of both the world and his films with an enthralled audience.
Read More‘Redoubtable’: Michel Hazanavicius’ Free-Wheeling Jean-Luc Godard Biopic Goes...
On the tail end of his lauded New Wave period, seminal filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard began to move towards a new realm of cinema, best exemplified by his 1967 political feature, “La Chinioise,” a woozy and modern take on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1872 novel “The Possessed” that married some of the auteur’s signature obsessions — from tracking shots to a star turn from Jean-Pierre Léaud — with a new bent towards political motivations.
Godard continued to traffic in such films for the next decade, spurned by his infamous desire to spend his time “making political films politically,” and “La Chinoise” was followed by offerings like “Le Gai Savoir” and “Tout Va Bien,” which continued to share Godard’s constantly evolving vision of both the world and his films with an enthralled audience.
Read More‘Redoubtable’: Michel Hazanavicius’ Free-Wheeling Jean-Luc Godard Biopic Goes...
- 7/12/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Starting this week, the Film Society of Lincoln Center hosts a retrospective of the 57-year career of one of the most iconic figures of modern cinema: Jean-Pierre Léaud. The child who grew up and grew old before our eyes, Léaud will forever be associated with one film above all, François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, made when he was only 14, and its character, Antoine Doinel, who he, in many ways, created. In a letter to his friend Helen Scott in 1962 Truffaut wrote, “I would prefer a film to change its meaning along the way rather than have an actor ill at ease. Jean-Pierre wasn’t the character I had intended for The 400 Blows.” When the Film Society first fêted Léaud, in 1994, in the series “Growing Up with Jean-Pierre Léaud: Nouvelle Vague’s Wild Child” (programmed by my future wife no less), the actor had only just turned 50. Léaud...
- 3/31/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Jean-Luc Godard's La gai savoir (1969) is showing from January 18 - February 17, 2017 in many countries around the world as part of the retrospective For Ever Godard.Le gai savoir (Joy of Learning, 1969) is a film by Jean-Luc Godard which, unlike classics such as Breathless (1960) or Contempt (1963) is hardly a household name. Godard’s Weekend (1967) gives us an inkling of what is to come in its postscript production credit: What translates to mean “End of story” and then “End of cinema” flashes in blue lettering on a black backdrop; a moment later, we see that this word game has been created using a statement of the film’s visa control number. Of course, Godard had already been engaging in this kind of word play for years in his credits and intertitles. Although these statements could also be taken as being typical,...
- 2/6/2017
- MUBI
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