By Martin Scorsese
December 13, 2022
"On January 31, TCM is doing a five-film tribute to Jean-Luc Godard. As someone who was coming of age as Godard was emerging, it feels a little difficult to get used to the idea that he’s gone. It’s just as difficult to come to terms with the fact that the five films programmed—Breathless, Le Petit soldat, Vivre sa vie, Contempt and Masculine Feminine—are now over half a century old. Of all the filmmakers of the French New Wave, Godard always seemed like the “newest.” They were united in their love of cinema but in their deep connections with other art forms as well. For Rohmer and Truffaut, it was literature. For Rivette, the theatre. For Varda, photography. Godard was constantly quoting from and evoking cinema, music, theatre, literature and philosophy, and he composed his frames with the eye of a painter—a modern painter....."
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