Posts tagged Jean-Luc Godard

Movie Trailer of the Day: Bed and Board by Francois Truffaut

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2 years ago
by Jeff the Zombie in

The third film in the Antoine Doinel series is also my favorite, dealing with Antoine’s marriage and fatherhood (and infidelities). I kind of wish the series had ended here, but no — there’s one more left. And it’s terrible. One of my favorite running gags in this film, though, is a friend of Antoine’s — obviously meant to be Jean-Luc Godard — bumming money off of him.

Movie Trailer of the Day: Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculin Féminin

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2 years ago
by Jeff the Zombie in

I first saw Masculin Féminin at the University of Maryland in 1994 in a comparative literature class called “Film, Form and Culture.” Wow, what a revelation. Godard’s study of French twentysomethings in the late 1960′s had an incredible impact on my twentysomething self. The French New Wave changed cinema and brought about the American New Wave of the 1970′s — Truffaut may be Tina’s favorite New Wave director, but I’ll always prefer the daring Godard (though admittedly, Godard hasn’t made a good film since Weekend). There are elements of Masculin Féminin in many subsequent films, including the French cafe scenes in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, which is a clear homage.

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