French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic Jean-Luc Godard turns the respectable age of 84 years old today!!!!!!!!! He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave. Like his New Wave contemporaries, Godard criticized mainstream French cinemas Tradition of Quality, which emphasized craft over innovation, privileged established directors over new directors, and preferred the great works of the past to experimentation. To challenge this tradition, he and like-minded critics started to make their own films. Many of Godards films challenge the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. He is often considered the most radical French filmmaker of the 1960s and 1970s. Several of his films expressed his political views. His films also expressed his knowledge of film history through their references to earlier films. In addition, Godards films often cite existentialism, as he was an avid reader of existential and Marxist philosophy. His radical approach in film conventions, politics and philosophies made him an influential filmmaker of the French New Wave. Since the New Wave, his politics have been much less radical and his recent films are about representation and human conflict from a humanist, and a Marxist perspective. In a 2002 Sight & Sound poll, Godard ranked third in the critics top-ten directors of all time (which was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films for which the critics voted). He is said to have created one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century.He and his work have been central to narrative theory and have challenged both commercial narrative cinema norms and film criticisms vocabulary. In 2010, Godard was awarded an Academy Honorary Award, but did not attend the award ceremony. Godards films have inspired many directors including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, D. A. Pennebaker, Robert Altman, Jim Jarmusch, Wong Kar-wai, Wim Wenders, Bernardo Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:16:13 +0000
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