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click on image to enlargeIn 1950, when he was only nineteen years old, Jean-Luc Godard, one day to become one the great filmmakers, wrote a piece for the French publication Gazette du Cinema called Towards A Political Cinema. Even at this young age, Godard was aware of cinema’s power to communicate ideas.
Jean-Luc Godard examines a strip of film
click on image to enlargeFilm history describes a wide range of film movements that have each had an often-short lifespan that’s been quite specific but the legacies of which have endured.
A movement in film, or indeed...
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