(Join Jeffrey Overstreet and Michael Leary as they discuss the Top Ten films from the recent Sight & Sound Greatest Films poll. Visit the “Sight & Sounds Greatest Films Conversation” tag for previous installments.) ML: This was an interesting biographical experience. I haven’t seen this film for many years, long enough that I think I […]
David Dark (author of recently reviewed Sacredness of Questioning Everything) slapped up a clip from Vivre sa vie over at his blog Peer Pressure Is Forever. And it compelled me to do the same here: There is a very fine line between Godard the ad hoc blowhard intellectualese grammarian, and Godard the conjuror of incisively […]
(Ed. Note: This was originally published at Image Facts.) For most who watch this film for the first time, the most memorable moment will probably be when Nana cries in the theatre with Dreyer’s Joan of Arc during a screening of The Passion of Joan of Arc. David Bordwell said somewhere that “the real problem” with the […]