tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post115576800778694154..comments2023-11-05T04:31:48.615-05:00Comments on Elusive Lucidity: Godard at SchoolZChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-62997733471509820122010-10-12T07:50:15.853-04:002010-10-12T07:50:15.853-04:00A person has a greater success in learning if he/s...A person has a greater success in learning if he/she participates in the process.Winstrolhttp://rxheads.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-1155820472210235152006-08-17T09:14:00.000-04:002006-08-17T09:14:00.000-04:00Zach, I've really enjoyed your posts over the last...Zach, I've really enjoyed your posts over the last few weeks. I'm planning to spend the fall and probably most of the winter studying Godard. I've seen ten or fifteen of his films over the years but have no real sense yet of his evolution, politically or aesthetically. I'm jotting down and bookmarking your reading suggestions; any others would be much appreciated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-1155808357502501022006-08-17T05:52:00.000-04:002006-08-17T05:52:00.000-04:00Great post Zach. Today Godard continues to share i...Great post Zach. Today Godard continues to share ignorance and "start over" - he says that only when he's not sure know why an image seizes him does he put it in. This is obviously somewhat of an exaggeration however it is linked to his objection to the contemporary media that oversaturates images with commentary, disallowing images to speak for themselves as grounds for discovery (which goes back to Bazin), and with the possibility of locating hidden relationships of radical power.<BR/>I think its interesting that JLG's criticisms of Steven Speilberg roughly coincide with JLG's confrontation of the Holocaust. It's a challenge, comparably, to find references to the camps in any of his pre-1988 films. In almost every film he has made since 1988 (Le dernier mot) he has referenced the camps and/or the war in either images or anecdotes. And of course there is the similar earlier commitment to Vietnam across pre-DVG, DVG, and post DVG films. I'm wondering now if his outright disdain for Speilberg and Schindler's List can go back even further than the Maoist period, because what is Schindler's List but a film in the "Tradition of Quality" that so riled the Young Turks?Andy Rectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15870363285627741234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-1155808178466207212006-08-17T05:49:00.000-04:002006-08-17T05:49:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Andy Rectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15870363285627741234noreply@blogger.com