Nathan Lee of the
New York Times pays homage to the great Jean-Luc Godard’s ego in his Sunday article on the filmmaker’s current self-tribute at the
Georges Pompidou Center in Paris. The exhibit is a collage of art forms, highlighting Godard’s essential works and those of his various muses and influences – Delacroix, Goya, and the Lumiere Brothers to name a few. Lee comments on Godard’s surrealist installation: “The entire exhibition functions as a kind of conceptual filmstrip for which the viewer is the light source and the cinema is entirely inside the mind.” While the exhibit has opened with controversy surrounding Godard’s hard-to-handle attitude, Lee brings up a crucial selling point, “As cinema undergoes its digital sea change and is displaced from the center of popular culture by a proliferation of new media, the time is right to reckon with a filmmaker who has thought longer and harder about motion pictures than anyone else.”
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posted by Laura Davies @ 6/29/2006 01:02:00 PM
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