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godard has been consistently independent and has put out enough work that you can see something of how he operates, which is in itself i think kinda brave--though it maybe looks more that way from the present context in which it is hard to imagine anyone being able to make that much work and put it out at all.
there was the phase of systematic rule violation, which generated the madison sequence in "band of outsiders" and then alphaville, which is one of my favorites ever--amongst a heap of other work. i have a particular affection for the documentary-like side of him, the way he slides everyday life into cinematic fantasy into "everyday life" in the context of a cinema-fantasy. like alot of folk, i'm ambivalent about the maoist phase (late 60=s early 70s), but sometimes i think it's because he stopped working in black and white.
i confess that i've not seen a whole lot of his more recent stuff, since "to each his own"---things here and there---some parts of the history of cinema.
and i'm not sure that making interesting work and being a human being that enjoys looking at the breasts of charlatan's friend are mutually exclusive, though i can certainly understand the disappointment that follows from it.
49 discs though---that's a lot of audio-visual wallpaper. you need big rooms and lots o time for that.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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