Chapter Twenty-One Jean- Luc Godard: Breathless and Band of Outsiders

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. CURTAIN RAISERS
5. Chapter One On Changing One’s Mind About a Movie 7
6. Chapter Two How I Look at Movies 15
7. FEATURE FILMS
8. Chapter Three Maren Ade: The Forest for the Trees 23
9. Chapter Four Chantal Akerman: No Home Movie 27
10. Chapter Five Antonioni’s Le Amiche: Another Look 30
11. Chapter Six Ingmar Bergman: Scenes from a Marriage and Saraband 35
12. Chapter Seven Raymond Bernard: Wooden Crosses and Les Misérables 43
13. Chapter Eight Robert Bresson: Mouchette 47
14. Chapter Nine Lino Brocka: Insiang 52
15. Chapter Ten John Cassavetes: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 56
16. Chapter Eleven Claude Chabrol: The Swindle 61
17. Chapter Twelve George Clooney: Good Night, and Good Luck 64
18. Chapter Thirteen David Cronenberg: eXistenZ 72
19. Chapter Fourteen Jean- Pierre and Luc Dardenne 75
20. Chapter Fifteen Arnaud Desplechin: A Christmas Tale 83
21. Chapter Sixteen Carl Dreyer: Gertrud 88
22. Chapter Seventeen Lena Dunham: Tiny Furniture 91
23. Chapter Eighteen Paul Fejos: Lonesome 96
24. Chapter Nineteen Emmanuel Finkiel: Voyages 102
25. Chapter Twenty John Ford: The Sun Shines Bright 107
26. Chapter Twenty-One Jean- Luc Godard: Breathless and Band of Outsiders 112
27. Chapter Twenty-Two Hong Sang-soo 121
28. Chapter Twenty-Three Hou Hsiao-hsien 130
29. Chapter Twenty-Four Otar Iosseliani 136
30. Chapter Twenty-Five Elia Kazan 147
31. Chapter Twenty-Six Abbas Kiarostami: Through the Olive Trees and Taste of Cherry 151
32. Chapter Twenty-Seven Hirokazu Kore-eda 154
33. Chapter Twenty-Eight Akira Kurosawa: Rashomon 163
34. Chapter Twenty-Nine Alberto Lattuada: Mafioso 167
35. Chapter Thirty Richard Linklater: Before Midnight 172
36. Chapter Thirty-One Harold Lloyd: Speedy 177
37. Chapter Thirty-Two Ernst Lubitsch 182
38. Chapter Thirty-Three Sidney Lumet: Long Day’s Journey Into Night 191
39. Chapter Thirty-Four David Lynch: Mulholland Drive 196
40. Chapter Thirty-Five Dušan Makavejev: The Wolf and the Teddy Bear 203
41. Chapter Thirty-Six Kenji Mizoguchi: Ugetsu and Utamaro and His Five Women 216
42. Chapter Thirty-Seven Mikio Naruse: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 224
43. Chapter Thirty-Eight Yasujirō Ozu: Late Spring 228
44. Chapter Thirty-Nine Christian Petzold: Barbara 231
45. Chapter Forty Maurice Pialat: Naked Childhood, Van Gogh, and Le Garçu 233
46. Chapter Forty-One Alain Resnais: Middle and Late Resnais 242
47. Chapter Forty-Two Dino Risi: Il Sorpasso 247
48. Chapter Forty-Three Éric Rohmer: La Collectionneuse, The Marquise of O, and Le Rayon Vert 253
49. Chapter Forty-Four Raúl Ruiz: Time Regained 266
50. Chapter Forty-Five Alexander Sokurov 273
51. Chapter Forty-Six Paolo Sorrentino: The Great Beauty 275
52. Chapter Forty-Seven Jean- Marie Straub: Not Reconciled 281
53. Chapter Forty-Eight Andrei Tarkovsky: Solaris 283
54. Chapter Forty-Nine François Truffaut 287
55. INTERMISSION: DOCUMENTARIES AND ESSAY FILMS
56. Chapter Fifty Frederick Wiseman: Composing an American Epic 293
57. Chapter Fifty-One Alain Resnais: Night and Fog 298
58. Chapter Fifty-Two Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin: Chronicle of a Summer 301
59. Chapter Fifty-Three Alan Berliner 305
60. Chapter Fifty-Four Robert Gardner: Dead Birds 310
61. Chapter Fifty-Five Sam Green and Bill Spiegel: The Weather Underground 319
62. Chapter Fifty-Six Jafar Panahi: This Is Not a Film 325
63. Chapter Fifty-Seven Documentary Splendors and Errors 328
64. Chapter Fifty-Eight Ross McElwee: Bright Leaves 332
65. Chapter Fifty-Nine Mark Rappaport’s Essay Films 335
66. Chapter Sixty Marcel Ophuls 342
67. Chapter Sixty-One City Essay Films 344
68. FILM CRITICS
69. Chapter Sixty-Two The Making of Manny Farber 361
70. Chapter Sixty-Three Roger Ebert: Life Itself 364
71. Chapter Sixty-Four Stanley Kauffmann 368
72. Chapter Sixty-Five Pauline Kael: A Biography 370
73. Chapter Sixty-Six Stanley Cavell 374
74. Chapter Sixty-Seven James Harvey 377
75. Chapter Sixty-Eight Jonathan Rosenbaum 381
76. Chapter Sixty-Nine Jonathan Baumbach 384
77. EXIT MUSIC: A FEW LAST THOUGHTS
78. Chapter Seventy Repertory Movie Theaters, Ravishing Revivals 391
79. Conclusion: The Faith of a Cineaste 397
80. NOTES 401