Jean-Luc Godard was a renowned auteur who rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s. His work revolutionized the motion picture form through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork. His contribution to the cinematic world is indeed commendable, as it has impacted many in the industry. The Film Stage’s Nick Newman has curated a series of rare and remarkable films called AMNESIASCOPE, presented by The Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research. In the next screening of the event, French and Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard’s masterwork will be showcased at Amnesiascope.
According to Newman,
“It was only a matter of time until I showed a film by Jean-Luc Godard, and if it’s so early into the programming cycle we can consider the work itself––to my mind his greatest feature (whatever its status as a rare object) and one that well embodies the creative spirit of the theater space that’s given Amnesiascope a home. This will mark its first New York screening since 2017.”
The event will take place on Tuesday, May 28, at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research. Though Newman didn’t reveal the movies that will be screening at the event, he explained, “I’ll say it’s a summit of Godard’s ’80s corpus, yet another self-reflecting vision of a director’s rise and fall, and makes for an essential study of Jean-Pierre Léaud as auteurism embodied.”
Newman also mentioned that playwright Matthew Gasda, a co-founder of the Center, will be mixing cocktails for attendees. As per the official description of the event,
“The Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research is proud to present AMNESIASCOPE, a series of rare and remarkable films curated by Nick Newman. Our next screening is a Jean-Luc Godard masterwork in which his ‘80s oeuvre––leagues wilder, more aggressive, and more outlandish than the exhausted 1960s canon––reached its apotheosis. Starring the iconic Jean-Pierre Léaud as a director at wits’ end, this perpetually underseen film (playing in New York for the first time since 2017) shows Godard at his most formally assured and altogether playful, bolstered by needle drops from Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Janis Joplin.”
Jean-Luc Godard‘s most notable work includes Breathless (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), Band of Outsiders (1964), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Masculin Féminin (1966), Weekend (1967) and Goodbye to Language (2014).
Filmmaker Richard Linklater is currently working on Nouvelle Vague, a film that follows the production of Jean-Luc Godards’s Breathless.
