Iconic director Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) returns with a new envelope-pushing experience in The Image Book trailer, essentially a filmed collage.
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Fourgrounds Media has released The Auteurs of Christmas which reimagining the magic of Christmas morning through the eyes of 20 famous filmmakers.
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Jean-Luc Godard releases his thirty-ninth film this year, and his first in 3D. The film, Goodbye to Language, is an experimental effort that takes an approach to 3D that has been called radical and even game-changing. (Though we probably won't see anyone using 3D in this manner for a conventional film any time soon.) The…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This…
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Who doesn't love the inexplicable, transportative moviegoing experience? I remember seeing Wim Wenders' documentary about Cuban music, Buena Vista Social Club, and floating on that one for days. I thought I was going to see a concert film, but it took me to a place I'd never been before and did it in a unique…
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Slate has put together a video which shows us what it might be like if filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, and Jean-Luc Godard directed the Super Bowl. Sadly, they didn't include versions by Michael Bay or Steven Spielberg. Also, am I the only one who thinks they get the Tarantino one all…
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The list of filmmakers who will be awarded honorary Oscars this year has been released, and it's a good one. Francis Ford Coppola will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, given to "a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production." Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach and film…
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