Jean-Luc Godard
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Güeros
It’s a literal confrontation of his metaphorical fear, a visual take on Rilke’s words: to view Güeros is to see a “thing poem” on the screen, to witness something like “The Panther” materialize.
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All Aboard
My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm. Not only was I seasick, I saw the population on board as…
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Godard’s Breathless
You can watch the entirety of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless here and experience early nouvelle vague in all of its glory:
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Pauline Kael’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The winner of the The Rumpus College Book Review Contest, a review of Pauline Kael’s seminal Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, by Matthew Weinstock.