Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70
February 20, 2004
Jean-Luc Godard’s
films and videos have revolutionized the language of the moving
image, and he remains today among the most influential of artists.
Drawing on his experiences working with Godard, the scholar and
producer Colin MacCabe has written the first biography of the reclusive
director, a portrait of a man determined to make cinema the greatest
of the arts. On February 20, the author introduces screenings of
two works by Godard drawn from MoMA’s Film and Media Archive,
Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980) and The Old Place: Small
Notes Regarding the Arts at Fall of 20th Century (1998), and
discusses and signs copies of Godard: A Portrait of the Artist
at 70 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004).
Organized by Mary Lea Bandy, Chief Curator,
Department of Film and Media.
. 1980. France. Directed
by Jean-Luc Godard. Screenplay by Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Claude
Carrière. With Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, Jacques Dutronc.
“The film is an extraordinary mix of exhilaration and despair,”
writes Colin MacCabe, “the exhilaration coming from the beauty
and force of the images, the despair from a society in which no
one is free, except the banks, and from a vision of male sexuality
as inevitably damaged and damaging.” In French, English subtitles.
87 min.
.
1998. France. Written and directed by Anne-Marie Miéville,
Jean-Luc Godard. On behalf of The Museum of Modern Art, Mary Lea
Bandy and Colin MacCabe commissioned a moving-image essay from Miéville
and Godard of their reflections on the state of the arts at the
end of the twentieth century. In French, English subtitles. 50 min.
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