Godard on Godard Culture & Society ’ Through time

’ Through time

like a spectre in the smog

Dennis Lim is a film curator

Faithful to a radical understanding of the profession

Selected from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s extensive collection

Godard on Godard Culture & Society ’ Through timeJean Luc Godard, like many of his European contemporaries, came to filmmaking through film criticism. This collection of essays and interviews, ranging from his early efforts for La Gazette du Cinma to his later writings for Cahiers du Cinma, reflects his dazzling intelligence, biting wit, maddening judgments, and complete unpredictability. In writing about Hitchcock, Welles, Bergman, Truffaut, Bresson, and Renoir, Godard is also writing about