“Contempt” remains as peculiar, sullen and gorgeous a film today as when Jean-Luc Godard had the profoundly conflicted experience of making it 60 years ago. The new 4k digital restoration, courtesy of ...
“Contempt” is based on Alberto Moravia’s 1954 novel about a man whose wife begins to despise him, but it echoes with allusions, quotations and references to its own making. It opens with Godard’s ...
When the French filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard died last year at the age of 91, the encomiums came in fast and furious. Directors Clair Denis, Edgar Wright, and Martin Scorcese, as well as President Macron ...