My Jean-Luc Godard movie marathon: How I watched his collected works, in chronological order
I am one of the Godard-obsessed.
There are many of us around, whose deep interest in the films of Jean-Luc Godard inspired such a love. Perhaps nothing illustrates my condition so much as when I once watched all of Godard's movies, except for an elusive few, in chronological order, over a few months.
At the time of my project some 20 years ago, Godard had made about a hundred works (131 at the time of his death Tuesday, by IMDb's tally), counting features, shorts, TV programs and ads, and other oddities. Video copies of most were rare or rarer, so finding them entailed a devoted campaign of internet searching.
The reward of those labors was an exquisite immersion in Godard's oeuvre. It was a fascinating study of a filmmaking revolutionary whose relentless — even ruthless — drive for invention I found to be endlessly absorbing. If Akira Kurosawa was cinema's Shakespeare, as Steven Spielberg has
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