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Tag: Anna Karina

  • Quickies, Vol. XII

    Unfaithfully Yours (dir. Preston Sturges, 1948) – Another Stanford Theatre gem. Sturges tops the  So-Embarrassed-I-Don’t-Know-Their-Stuff List. This was a fortuitous screening, since after viewing The Hudsucker Proxy, with all its Capra influences, I was reminded that Capra is dwarfed in the Coens’ oeuvre by the influence of Sturges, who is far more grotesque, straight-up morbid.…

  • Alphaville

    Alphaville appears to be the apex of Godard’s imagination and ideology, if not its synthesis. It is, along with so many of his 60s films, a cinematic excuse to spout various pensées that cohesively tie with the theme of the film and even the form, but appear to be little more than spontaneous bullet points…

  • Bande à part

    Jean-Luc Godard created Bande à part in the middle of his most well-documented period of filmmaking, which is the period when he was most self-conscious about filmmaking in his films. These days Bande à part has become its own caricature, a snippet of the French New Wave that is relatively easy to access while still…