Jean-Luc Godard: Expect Everything From Cinema
Letter to Jane: An Investigation of a Still (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin; France, 1972)
- When
- Sun Sep 21, 2014
- Where
- PFA Theater
- Time
- 7:00pm
- Cost
- $5.50 - $9.50
- Tags
- Movies, Foreign, Film Screenings
Description
This extraordinary little movie emerged from the then recently formed French Dziga Vertov film collective, led by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin . . . united in a dream of a new revolutionary cinema . . . The entire premise of Letter to Jane is a deconstruction of a notorious news photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi and surrounded by Vietnamese communists. The best parts of the film function as a withering critique of the iconography of Hollywood and the (fashionably unfashionable) Hollywood star system. Jonathan Dawson, Senses of Cinema—Jonathan Dawson, Senses of Cinema
• (52 mins, In English, Color, From the Reserve Film and Video Collection of the The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, permission Janus Films)
Followed by:
Godard in America (Ralph Thanhauser, US, 1970)
Godard and J.P. Gorin travel across the United States visiting colleges and meeting with politically engaged young people. (44 mins, B&W, 16mm, BAM/PFA Collection)
Total running time: 96 mins
More Info
- Link
- http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN20820
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- (510) 642-1412
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- 510.642.5249 (Box Office)
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