Tag: Jean-Luc Godard
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Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars’ Finds North American Distribution With Kino Lorber (Exclusive)
Kino Lorber has bought all North American distribution rights to Jean-Luc Godard’s final short film “Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars.” The 20-minute short played at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will next screen at Toronto and New York film festivals.Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical roll out for the…
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Camera ready: how Agnès Varda turned her photographs into film
Before she picked up a film camera, the revered director was a photographer. The seeds of her groundbreaking cinema lie in her earliest still images, says her daughter, RosalieAgnès Varda, at least in her later years, didn’t make a big deal about being taken seriously. For decades, the film-maker and artist was much respected as…
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All the French New Wave Directors Are Dead — Long Live Their Legacy
Kohn’s Corner is a weekly column about the challenges and opportunities of sustaining American film culture.Chances are that if you care about international cinema, you care about the French New Wave. A loose collective of young directors who came to define their country’s cinema as the 1950s gave way to the ’60s, the French New…
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‘Final Cut’ Trailer: Michel Hazanavicius’ Zombie Remake Screens At Tribeca Next Week, Hits Theaters On July 14
What’s there to say about French director Michel Hazanavicius? His two “Oss 117” films with Jean Dujardin are foreign cult comedies. And then the duo struck gold stateside with “The Artist,” which won Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor at the 2012 Oscars. But Hazanavicius hasn’t caught on with US audiences since then: not…