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THE POLITICAL FILMS OF JEAN-LUC GODARD: 1968 TO 1973 POCKET MOVIE GUIDE By Jeremy Mark Robinson There's no one else quite like Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most significant and inspiring filmmakers of recent times. Where the flood of movies globally now runs into many thousands, Godard's works stand out as original, acerbic, romantic, ironic, controversial, humorous and explorative. 1967-1973 was the period when Jean-Luc Godard developed a series of political films, some of which were produced by the Dziga Vertov Group with Jean-Pierre Gorin and others (during this period, he was married to Anne Wiazemsky, who appears in several of the films). The political pictures of the period tend now to be seen as Dziga Vertov Group works, but actually the Dziga Vertov Group - and Gorin - only worked on a proportion of them. According to Gorin, the group only really coalesced around the time of Struggle In Italy (by which time Godard had already produced several political pieces. Also, towards the end, it was really only Godard and Gorin. The name Dziga Vertov was made up by Russian filmmaker Denis Kaufman. It means 'spinning top'). The political film period of 1968 to 1973 and the Dziga Vertov Group produced movies that included: Wind From the East, Lutte In Italia, British Sounds, A Film Like the Others, Until Victory (Palestine Will Win), Vladimir and Rosa, Pravda, Tout Va Bien and Letter To Jane. Some were unfinished, and some were not broadcast as planned, or released. The Dziga Vertov Group and the 1968-1973 political films were shot on Eastmancolor 16mm, with apparently everything being decided by the group, and everyone being paid equally. The money came from TV channels in Europe, with Jean-Luc Godard typically being commissioned to direct a documentary about a political topic. Fully illustrated. Bibliography, filmography, Godardisms and notes.

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JEREMY ROBINSON has published poetry, fiction, and studies of J.R.R. Tolkien, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Hardy, André Gide and D.H. Lawrence. Robinson has edited poetry books by Novalis, Ursula Le Guin, Friedrich Hölderlin, Francesco Petrarch, Dante Alighieri, Arseny Tarkovsky, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Books on film and animation include: The Akira Book - The Art of Katsuhiro Otomo - The Art of Masamune Shirow - The Ghost In the Shell Book - Fullmetal Alchemist - Cowboy Bebop: The Anime and Movie - The Cinema of Hayao Miyazaki - Hayao Miyazaki: Pocket Guide - Princess Mononoke: Pocket Movie Guide - Spirited Away: Pocket Movie Guide - Blade Runner and the Cinema of Philip K. Dick - Blade Runner: Pocket Movie Guide - The Cinema of Donald Cammell - Performance: Donald Cammell: Nic Roeg: Pocket Movie Guide - Pasolini: Il Cinema di Poesia/ The Cinema of Poetry - Salo: Pocket Movie Guide - The Trilogy of Life Movies: Pocket Movie Guide - The Gospel According To Matthew: Pocket Movie Guide - The Ecstatic Cinema of Tony Ching Siu-tung - Tsui Hark: The Dragon Master of Chinese Cinema - The Swordsman: Pocket Movie Guide - A Chinese Ghost Story: Pocket Movie Guide - Ken Russell: England's Great Visionary Film Director and Music Lover - Tommy: Ken Russell: The Who: Pocket Movie Guide - Women In Love: Ken Russell: D.H. Lawrence: Pocket Movie Guide - The Devils: Ken Russell: Pocket Movie Guide - Walerian Borowczyk: Cinema of Erotic Dreams - The Beast: Pocket Movie Guide - The Lord of the Rings Movies - The Fellowship of the Ring: Pocket Movie Guide - The Two Towers: Pocket Movie Guide - The Return of the King: Pocket Movie Guide - Jean-Luc Godard: The Passion of Cinema - The Sacred Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky - Andrei Tarkovsky: Pocket Guide.

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