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Everything Is Cinema and Criticism Is Nothing: Stephanie Zacharek, G   Message List  
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I've written a response to Stephanie Zacharek's New York Times review of
Richard Brody's Godard book, in which she mostly took the opportunity to
dismiss Godard's late films out of hand, take swipes at his credibility, and
parrot Brody's most questionable assertions about the filmmaker's politics
and beliefs. My response is here:


http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2008/08/everything-is-cinema-and-criticism-is\
.html



--
Ed Howard

Only The Cinema: http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com

Fargone Records/The Seven Arts: http://www.fargonerecords.com/


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I've written a response to Stephanie Zacharek's New York Times review of Richard Brody's Godard book, in which she mostly took the opportunity to dismiss...
Edward Howard
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Aug 2, 2008
2:54 pm

... credibility, and ... politics and beliefs.> It is a good response but sadly wasted on a reviewer combining the worst attributes of Pauline Kael, David...
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Aug 2, 2008
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... "I've written a response to Stephanie Zacharek's New York Times review of Richard Brody's Godard book..." Thanks for the great job you did of...
Richard Modiano
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Aug 3, 2008
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... Thanks Richard. I'll admit I'm not entirely sure about the timeline myself, and I don't have any of my Godard bios at hand to check. But it seems obvious...
Edward Howard
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Aug 3, 2008
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Thank you for your wonderful contribution, Ed. This is a very thoughtful and well-developed essay. So very respectfully, I don't perfectly agree with...
peterhenne
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Aug 3, 2008
2:50 am

Since I don't follow the Times Book Review as I should, I'm wondering if it has now become a predictable source of philistine writing on film (e.g. Clive James...
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Aug 3, 2008
2:33 pm

Since I'm currently reading Ellen Schrecker's anthology COLD WAR TRIUMPHALISM (2004), I'm struck by the fact that this review is a cultural example of the...
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Aug 3, 2008
5:46 pm

... "...the review that Ed criticizes reeks very much of the pompous attitude, 'Communism is dead. Left wing politics are moribund' so people like Godard were...
Richard Modiano
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Aug 3, 2008
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... I recently rediscovered Miklos Jancso's RED PSALM for the first time in about twenty years, and while I'm sure Jancso himself would freely admit that its...
Michael Brooke
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Aug 4, 2008
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It's been a long time since I've seen "Red Psalm," not 20 years but around 15. Just on my recollection, I hesitate to say that film obeys an ideology. Yes,...
peterhenne
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Aug 4, 2008
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... By my reckoning, fourteen Jancsos are available on DVD with English subtitles, plus two more in their native Hungarian ('The Confrontation') and Italian...
Michael Brooke
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Aug 5, 2008
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Michael, Thanks for this helpful information. I read recently that all of a trilogy beginning in 1999, which I think is "Lord's Lantern in Budapest," "Last...
peterhenne
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Aug 5, 2008
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... Those aren't out on DVD to my knowledge. The fourteen titles I was referring to are 'Cantata' (1963), 'My Way Home' (1964), 'The Round-Up' (1965), 'The Red...
Michael Brooke
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Aug 6, 2008
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... Hey Peter, thanks for the very considered and thought-provoking response. I don't entirely disagree with what you say. There's a lot of complexity to every...
Edward Howard
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Aug 3, 2008
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Ed, I have a lot of agreement with what you're saying. I wouldn't quite say that all of the first 15 features are ultimately answerable to the concerns and...
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