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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godardby Richard Brody
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A landmark biography explores the crucial resonances among the life, the work, and the times of this most influential filmmaker When Jean-Luc Godard, exemplary director of the French New Wave, wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Among the greatest cinematic innovations, Godard’s films straddle the line between fiction and documentary, criticism and art. Similarly, his persona projects the shifting images of cultural hero, impassioned loner, and shrewd businessman. Indeed, Godard has entered the modern canon, a figure as mythologized as he is influential. In Everything Is Cinema, critic Richard Brody draws on hundreds of interviews with Godard’s friends, family, and collaborators as well as on unseen footage to paint the fullest picture yet of the elusive director. Paying meticulous attention to intellectual and political currents, Brody traces an arc from Godard’s early critical writing, through his popular success with Breathless and Contempt, to the grand vision of his later years. Throughout this original interpretation, Brody argues that Godard’s work, life, and the zeitgeist are inseparable, and that the films are the product of a single obsessive quest to unify biography, creativity, and history. Review:"Comprehensive and fascinating, this critical biography of one of the leading filmmakers of the French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard, by New Yorker editor and film critic Brody offers the significant events and achievements of the cinematic innovator who combined an eye-opening concoction of art, politics, music, personal values and social mores. The author reveals an isolated yet driven creative genius who rises from writing articles for the pioneering Cahiers du Cinma magazine with Truffaut, Rivette and Rohmer to soaring early successes with his films Breathless, Contempt, Masculine Feminine, A Married Woman to the later controversial gems, First Name: Carmen, Hail Mary and Detective. Godard, according to Brody, compares in critical importance to Picasso in his artistry, as the director's puzzling complexity is revealed through scores of interviews with family, colleagues and crew. Throughout the book, the key personal elements of Godard's chaotic love life provide added spark. This is a completely enjoyable and revealing account of an enigmatic director whose singular creativity will not allow him to make commercial compromises." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Synopsis:A landmark biography explores the crucial resonances among the life, work, and times of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Unlike any earlier films, Godard’s work shifts fluidly from fiction to documentary, from criticism to art. The man himself also projects shifting images—cultural hero, fierce loner, shrewd businessman. Hailed by filmmakers as a—if not the—key influence on cinema, Godard has entered the modern canon, a figure as mysterious as he is indispensable. In Everything Is Cinema, critic Richard Brody has amassed hundreds of interviews to demystify the elusive director and his work. Paying as much attention to Godard’s technical inventions as to the political forces of the postwar world, Brody traces an arc from the director’s early critical writing, through his popular success with Breathless, to the grand vision of his later years. He vividly depicts Godard’s wealthy conservative family, his fluid politics, and his tumultuous dealings with women and fellow New Wave filmmakers. Everything Is Cinema confirms Godard’s greatness and shows decisively that his films have left their mark on screens everywhere. Synopsis:A monumental work of biographical excavation that examines the life, art, and political and intellectual engagement of one of the most influential forces in modern cinema. Jean-Luc Godard, exemplary filmmaker of the French New Wave movement, brought the ideals of filmmaking and the realities of autobiography into a new iteration of the most comprehensive art form: cinema. A filmmaker who straddles the line between fiction and documentary, criticism and art, his persona divided between the ideals of cultural hero and impassioned loner, Godard has entered the modern canon as an artistic force to be reckoned with. In Everything is Cinema, Richard Brody weaves together Godard's work, life, and the intellectual and political history that surrounds him, melding the three into a meticulous critical biography. Godard's films are supremely autobiographical, his work the product of a single obsessive quest to unify his life and work. Brody delves into the mind of the isolated Godard, supplementing interviews with the filmmaker with over a hundred others, while at the same time exploring both published and unpublished film from American and European archivists and filmmakers. A thoughtful study in artistic psychology, Everything is Cinema is a window into the work and mind of one of the most complex and intriguing artists of our time. About the AuthorRichard Brody, a film critic and editor at The New Yorker, is also an independent filmmaker who lives in New York City. Everything Is Cinema is his first book. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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