Adieu au langage - Goodbye to Language
A Works Cited
Introduction
From its bluntly political opening (Alfredo Bandelli's 'La caccia alle streghe': "Always united we win, long live the revolution!") to its hilarious fecal humor and word play—with 3D staging that happily puts to shame James Cameron and every other hack who's tried their hand at it these past several years—Adieu au langage overwhelms us with a deluge of recited texts, music and images, hardly ever bothering to slow down to let us catch our breath. Exhilarating and certainly not surprising—this is the guy who made Puissance de la parole after all!
The release of a new Godard film or video means a new encounter with texts, films and music often familiar from the filmmaker's earlier work—reworked and re-contextualized—as well as new discoveries to be sorted through and identified. This life-long interest in quotation...
A Works Cited
Introduction
From its bluntly political opening (Alfredo Bandelli's 'La caccia alle streghe': "Always united we win, long live the revolution!") to its hilarious fecal humor and word play—with 3D staging that happily puts to shame James Cameron and every other hack who's tried their hand at it these past several years—Adieu au langage overwhelms us with a deluge of recited texts, music and images, hardly ever bothering to slow down to let us catch our breath. Exhilarating and certainly not surprising—this is the guy who made Puissance de la parole after all!
The release of a new Godard film or video means a new encounter with texts, films and music often familiar from the filmmaker's earlier work—reworked and re-contextualized—as well as new discoveries to be sorted through and identified. This life-long interest in quotation...
- 10/16/2014
- by Ted Fendt
- MUBI
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Welcome to the Total Weather Apocalypse
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Climate change is too mild a term to describe the terrifying changes the earth will experience as it heats, says reviewer Nathaniel Rich. We need artists and filmmakers to awaken America to the disaster ahead.
The green movement, like the nuclear movement before it, is in the awkward position of having to forecast events that no one on earth has experienced before: namely, the extinction of human beings. The anti-nukies were fond of quoting from eschatology-Revelation primarily-to summon the apocalyptic scenarios that a nuclear war would unleash. J. Robert Oppenheimer, after watching the explosion of the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico,...
Welcome to the Total Weather Apocalypse
Related story on The Daily Beast: Fresh Picks by François Payard
Climate change is too mild a term to describe the terrifying changes the earth will experience as it heats, says reviewer Nathaniel Rich. We need artists and filmmakers to awaken America to the disaster ahead.
The green movement, like the nuclear movement before it, is in the awkward position of having to forecast events that no one on earth has experienced before: namely, the extinction of human beings. The anti-nukies were fond of quoting from eschatology-Revelation primarily-to summon the apocalyptic scenarios that a nuclear war would unleash. J. Robert Oppenheimer, after watching the explosion of the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico,...
- 2/13/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
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