Man, it’s going to be a good summer for movies if you live in New York and Film Forum is having a banner year, especially for rock docs (“Lou Reed’s Berlin” and “Patti Smith: Dream Of Life” debut at the repertory theater later this summer).
Moreover, the FF house is doing 5 weeks of a maverick French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard during his ’60s heyday starting May 2-through June 5.
It’s going to be a madhouse for these screenings. You won’t see us at a lot of these cause we’ve seen most on the big screen over the years (and crowds suck), but we’ll likely be there for “Two Or Three Things I Know About Her” as that’s one we’ve missed (our hunch is it hits Criterion later this year if the Rialto/Criterion trends follow suit).
All the big ones are there, “À Bout De Souffle,” “Weekend,” “Bande à Part,” etc. etc. and if you’re a budding cinephile or a dogged one, you should not miss.
We recommend you catch the eye-popping color of “Pierrot Le Fou,” and skip the didactic snoozefest that is, “Les Chinoise” (it is colorful though, we’ll give it that).
“Movies should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.” – Jean-Luc Godard.
Yes, we’re unfortunately NYC-entric because we live here, but if you have info on a good film festival upcoming in your North American city, lets us know. Hell, we’d totally report it. Everyone should know about their cinematic options aside from the predictable mega-theaters. Presumably this retrospective will tour around major North American cities (one would hope).
This Michael Showalter Showalter clip with David Wain that digresses into a conversation about Godard around the 3:30 mark says it all and cracks us the fuck up.
