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Toutes les histoires
F/CH 1998 52'
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Une histoire seule
F/CH 1998 52'
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Seul le cinéma
F/CH 1997 52'
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Fatale beauté
F/CH 1997 52'
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
La monnaie de l'absolu
F/CH 1998 52'
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Une vague nouvelle
F/CH 1998 52'
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Le contrôle de l'Univers
F/CH 1998 52'
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Les signes parmi nous
F/CH 1998 52'
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
See also:
Histoire(s) du cinéma (F)
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Jean-Luc Godard
German version
"HISTOIRE(S) seems at once deeply intuitive yet bristlingly intellectual; Godard has given free rein to his vast knowledge and imagination, resulting in a deluge of visual and aural associations, yet there is always a sense that he knows exactly where he's going. For him the contemplation of the history of the cinema, the great 20th century art form, becomes a way of commenting on the century's catastrophes and follies. HISTOIRE(S) made between 1988 and 1998 for French television, ends on a note of pessimism, more for the world than for the movies, that strikes a most timely note."
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA - as TV series/video essay - was made for Canal+, ARTE and Gaumont, from 1988 to 1998. The work subdivides into four chapters of two parts each. Of those four chapters, the first was broadcasted on five European channels simultaneously, the three others have been screened at film festivals. The series was shown as part of an installation at Documenta X, the interdisciplinary arts festival in Kassel, Germany, in 1997. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has screened each episode as it has become available. An extended essay on cinema by means of cinema. A history of the cinema, and history interpreted by the cinema. An hommage and a critique. An anecdotal autobiography, illuminated by Godard's encyclopaedic wit, extending the idiom established by Jean-Luc Godard par Jean-Luc Godard. An epic – and non-linear – poem. A freely associative essay. A vast multi-layered musical composition. Histoire(s) du cinéma is all of these. It is above all, a work made by a man who loves and is fascinated by the world of film.
For American movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, Godard's video series represents the culmination of 20th century filmmaking, and is a work ‹of enormous importance›: ‹Just as Finnegans Wake, the art work to which Histoire(s) du cinéma seems most comparable, situates itself at some theoretical stage after the end of the English language as we know it, Godard's magnum opus similarly projects itself into the future in order to ask, What was cinema?.›»
"HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA is an epic undertaking,
plural in its conception, simultaneously hugely ambitious in its scope and disarmingly
modest in its execution. Godard believes in the cinema as a privileged—perhaps the
most privileged—way of apprehending the passage of time. In undertaking to narrate
the stories and histories of cinema, he also seeks to show just how indispensable
cinema is in the preservation and narration of various critical events of the recent past.
In fact, Godard’s position could be summed up in this way: given the imperative to
historicize present experience in order to be able to make sense of it, the camera is a
more reliable instrument than the pen; and hence, cinema must offer a better record
and account than books. Godard’s constant recourse to the reading aloud of printed
sources is a sign of his respect for the written word; but it is also an affirmation of
cinema’s ability to include print media in a way that they cannot reciprocate.
Colin Nettelbeck
Jean-Luc Godard
Born in 1930 in Paris, France. Spent his childhood in Switzerland. Studied Ethnology in Paris. Critic for “Cahiers du Cinéma”. One of the founding members of “Nouvelle Vague”.
2010 FILM SOCIALISME
2004 NOTRE MUSIQUE
2000 ELOGE DE L'AMOUR
1999 THE OLD PLACE
1988-98 HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA
1996 FOR EVER MOZART
1995 2 x 50 ANS DE CINEMA FRANÇAIS
1994 JLG/JLG
1993 HELAS POUR MOI
1993 LES ENFANTS JOUENT A LA RUSSIE
1991 ALLEMAGNE NEUF ZERO
1990 NOUVELLE VAGUE
1987 KING LEAR
1987 SOIGNE TA DROITE
1986 DETECTIVE
1985 JE VOUS SALUE MARIE
1983 PRENOM CARMEN
1982 PASSION
1981 LETTRE A FREDDY BUACHE
1980 SAUVE QUI PEUT (LA VIE)
1978 FRANC-TOUR-DETOUR-DEUX ENFANTS
1976 SIX FOIS DEUX
1975 NUMERO DEUX
1975 ICI ET AILLEURS
1971 TOUT VA BIEN
1969 LE VENT D'EST
1967 WEEK-END
1967 ONE PLUS ONE / SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
1966 MASCULIN - FEMININ (D)
1966 DEUX OU TROIS CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D'ELLE (Livre)
1966 MADE IN USA
1965 ALPHAVILLE
1965 PIERROT LE FOU
1964 BANDE A PART
1964 UNE FEMME MARIEE
1963 LE PETIT SOLDAT
1963 LES CARABINIERS
1963 LE MEPRIS (DIE VERACHTUNG)
1962 VIVRE SA VIE
1961 UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME
1959 HISTOIRE D'EAU
1960 CHARLOTTE ET SON JULES
1959 TOUS LES GARÇONS S'APPELLENT PATRICK
1959 A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (AUSSER ATEM)
Internet
- Los Angeles Times Review HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA
- Ciné-club de Caen: HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA
- Colin Nettelbeck: From la nouvelle vague to HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA: History in Godard, Godard in History (pdf)
- Filmzentrale: HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA
- Freunde der deutschen Kinemathek: HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA
- die tageszeitung: Die Bilder geben keine Ruhe
- Le monde diplomatique: Das dritte Bild. Jean-Luc erklärt Godard
- Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz: Eintrag Jean-Luc Godard
- Senses of Cinema: Craig Keller on Jean-Luc Godard
