“It’s the Little Red Book / That makes it all move”
On the tail end of his lauded New Wave period, seminal filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard began to move towards a new realm of cinema, best exemplified by his 1967 political feature, “La Chinioise,” a woozy and modern take on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1872 novel “The Possessed” that married some of the auteur’s signature obsessions — from tracking shots to a star turn from Jean-Pierre Léaud — with a new bent towards political motivations.
Godard continued to traffic in such films for the next decade, spurned by his infamous desire to spend his time “making political films politically,” and “La Chinoise” was followed by offerings like “Le Gai Savoir” and “Tout Va Bien,” which continued to share Godard’s constantly evolving vision of both the world and his films with an enthralled audience.
Read More‘Redoubtable’: Michel Hazanavicius’ Free-Wheeling Jean-Luc Godard Biopic Goes...
On the tail end of his lauded New Wave period, seminal filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard began to move towards a new realm of cinema, best exemplified by his 1967 political feature, “La Chinioise,” a woozy and modern take on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1872 novel “The Possessed” that married some of the auteur’s signature obsessions — from tracking shots to a star turn from Jean-Pierre Léaud — with a new bent towards political motivations.
Godard continued to traffic in such films for the next decade, spurned by his infamous desire to spend his time “making political films politically,” and “La Chinoise” was followed by offerings like “Le Gai Savoir” and “Tout Va Bien,” which continued to share Godard’s constantly evolving vision of both the world and his films with an enthralled audience.
Read More‘Redoubtable’: Michel Hazanavicius’ Free-Wheeling Jean-Luc Godard Biopic Goes...
- 7/12/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Annette Insdorf with Andrzej Wajda at his home in July, 2014 Photo: Hanna Hartowicz
Annette Insdorf , the author of Francois Truffaut; Indelible Shadows: Film and Holocaust, Philip Kaufman; and Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski recalls meeting Andrzej Wajda for the first time in 1974 when he was directing Elzbieta Czyzewska (star of Wajda's Everything For Sale) in Albert Camus’s adaptation of the Dostoyevsky novel The Possessed at the Yale Repertory Theater with Meryl Streep and playwright Christopher Durang among the cast.
Andrzej Wajda's Afterimage is Poland's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film
Annette, is also a Professor in the Graduate Film Program of Columbia’s School of the Arts and moderator of the Telluride Film Festival where Wajda was honored in 1983. She shares with us her personal encounters with this great artist who left his indelible mark on the world.
"Maybe it's because I...
Annette Insdorf , the author of Francois Truffaut; Indelible Shadows: Film and Holocaust, Philip Kaufman; and Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski recalls meeting Andrzej Wajda for the first time in 1974 when he was directing Elzbieta Czyzewska (star of Wajda's Everything For Sale) in Albert Camus’s adaptation of the Dostoyevsky novel The Possessed at the Yale Repertory Theater with Meryl Streep and playwright Christopher Durang among the cast.
Andrzej Wajda's Afterimage is Poland's Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film
Annette, is also a Professor in the Graduate Film Program of Columbia’s School of the Arts and moderator of the Telluride Film Festival where Wajda was honored in 1983. She shares with us her personal encounters with this great artist who left his indelible mark on the world.
"Maybe it's because I...
- 10/15/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze and Annette Insdorf
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
If you think that after investing nearly 12 hours in a marathon theater event, I'm going to write something unremittingly negative, you've got another thing coming. The severe rear-end tester is director Peter Stein's adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 700-page novel The Demons (also known as The Possessed or The Devils), which is about political (read: incipient communism) and religious (read: the encroachment of atheism) discontent in a small Russian town circa the post-serf-freeing 1860s. Keep in mind that the half-day presentation of Stein's handiwork also includes a time-devouring trip to Governor's Island and back and 20-minute walks to and from the former warehouse site. (Some lucky ticket-buyers ride golf carts.) And I haven't yet mentioned that on these shores Stein's adaptation requires scanning surtitles, since although the novel is in Russian, the...
- 7/12/2010
- by David Finkle
- Huffington Post
Nigel Redden, Director of the Lincoln Center Festival, which runs from July 7 through July 25, 2010, today announced the Festival's line-up, which includes ten North American, U.S., and New York premieres, and debuts. The Festival will unfold in seven venues on and off the Lincoln Center campus, including two major theater events on Governors Island-the North American premiere of Peter Stein's 12-hour marathon production of Dostoyevsky's The Demons (also known as The Possessed) and the North American premiere of Toneelgroep Amsterdam's production of Pier Paolo Pasolini's searing Teorema, adapted and staged by Ivo van Hove.
- 7/11/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
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