{"id":1137,"date":"2008-05-06T16:01:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T21:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2008-05-06T16:52:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T21:52:52","slug":"bordwell-on-godard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/bordwell-on-godard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordwell on Godard"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Bordwell has a whole chapter on Jean-Luc Godard in Narration in the Fiction Film<\/i>; I almost returned the book to the library without reading it, but I’m so glad I didn’t. It’s great. And this quote is so right:<\/p>\n

Those who dislike Godard’s films may well find the works’ resistance to large-scale coherence incredibly frustrating; those who admire the films have probably learned to savor a movie as a string of vivid, somewhat isolated effects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I find myself more and more savoring films that are a string of vivid, somewhat isolated effects rather than devoted to large-scale coherence. Perhaps something to keep in mind when you decide whether to take or leave my recommendations. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Bordwell has a whole chapter on Jean-Luc Godard in Narration in the Fiction Film; I almost returned the book to the library without reading it, but I’m so glad I didn’t. It’s great. And this quote is so right: Those who dislike Godard’s films may well find the works’ resistance to large-scale coherence incredibly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[917,111],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1210,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/great-directors-catch-up-post\/","url_meta":{"origin":1137,"position":0},"title":"Great Directors: Catch-Up Post","author":"Jandy","date":"July 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I admit to choosing who gets to be a \"great director\" with some level of arbitrariness. 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