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...young Elvis "a terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song?s mood, to Bing Crosby than to any singer of the past 30 years. In that trap, as this set proves, he found triumph." CINEMA: "After 40 years," writes Corliss, "Jean-Luc Godard can still astonish and amuse in the cinematic shorthand he virtually created. Now two of his films, both about moviemaking, are on view: the 1995 'For Ever Mozart' and 'Contempt,' his 1963 meditation on sex, lies and celluloid." Both newly restored after long being out of theatrical circulation, ' the releases...
...early modern ages and cinema. Here I have taught Rabelais with a few good Pantagruelists, am on the verge of teaching film with a larger student body, and things cartographic and Baroque with a scattered few. If the students of film become what Susan Sontag and Jean-Luc Godard call passionate cinephiles, they will be no less stalwart, no less engaged, and no less given over to the endless pleasure and thrill of what, at Boylston Hall, is now extending outward, in new directions and about all continents, through the practice and invention of Romance Studies...
...tendency to define characters not necessarily by their histories or heartaches or small triumphs but, more economically, as a sum of their pop-cultural tastes. Want to show that someone is vacuous? Put him in Gucci loafers. Want to convey sophistication? Mention a character's love of Godard. Want to suggest that a person has developed unrealistic notions of familial closeness? Have her reminisce about watching The Brady Bunch...
...Godard consciously complicates the narration of the Donnadieus' story. The director has a history of experimenting with traditional narrative conventions. In his classic New Wave film, "Breathless," for instance, he mixed elements from the detective, comedy, and suspense genres. But "Helas Pour Moi" is far less straightforward than "Breathless." Godard plays with chronology and with point of view, shifting from the Donnadieus to the townspeople to the publisher and back in forth in time. The already fragmented narrative is further broken by repeated chapter titles and words on the screen. While a straightforward plot is by no means a requirement...
...Helas Pour Moi" has been called Godard's most contemplative and spiritual film to date. This may be so, but it is also highly inaccessible and abstract. After sitting through all 84 minutes, the film's title never seemed apter...