Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard

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Jean-Luc Godard is one of the most influential filmmakers of the last fifty years, Scorsese, Tarantino, Wong Kar-Wai and Lars Von Trier but a few of the directors who have fallen under the spell of Godard's free-wheeling style. In his 1960s heyday Godard - always in dark shades, cigarette in hand - epitomised European cool. But he subsequently grew into one of the most formidable artists the cinema had produced.



Writers and filmmaker Richard Brody, one of the few to have interviewed Godard in his Swiss retreat, offers an accessible account of this extraordinary and fascinating artist.

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"Richard Brody's biography of Godard--arguably the most important, enigmatic, and exciting filmmaker of the second half of the 20th century--effortlessly weaves intellectual history, a personal saga, and an authoritative reading of the films themselves into a seamless web. It virtually crackles with intelligence, and is a must read for anyone interested in cinema."--Peter Biskind, author of "Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture""Full of lucid analysis and human context, Richard Brody's book performs a heroic act in rescuing Godard and his growing shelf of works from the prison of myth and theory, from the cult of youth and the cult of the '60s, restoring him to his place as an engaged, hard-working artist."--Jonathan Lethem, author of "The Fortress of Solitude""Godard changed the movies as much as the American masters he grew up on: Welles, Hawks, Hitchcock, and the rest. He is as original as Picasso--but unlike Picasso, he has been denied the bio

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Richard Brody has written about film and filmmakers for the New Yorker. He is the writer and director of the feature film Liability Crisis (1995). This is his first book.