Godard, you peees of sheeet
Godard and Truffaut, originally uploaded by 160507.
It’s not an either/or proposition. You love him And you hate him. You yell at the screen And you clap at the end of the movie.
Reviewing Richard Brody’s new biography of Jean-Luc Godard, Everything is Cinema, Chris Petit ends with a question. “We know he was great, but was he any good?”
“Cinema comes down to something shown. Godard said as much in 1965: “The important thing is to be aware that one exists. For three-quarters of the time during the day one forgets this truth, which surges up again as you look at houses or a red light, and you have the sensation of existing in that moment.” He repeated the point years later with reference to Hitchcock: “We forget why Janet Leigh stops at the Bates motel . . . what Henry Fonda was not entirely guilty of and exactly why the American government hired Ingrid Bergman. But we remember a glass of milk, the blades of a windmill, a hairbrush.””
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