Histoire(s) du cinéma by Jean-Luc Godard, architecture and film appreciation

category: Architecture and Film (The Bartlett University syllabus) (click HERE for syllabus)

film index: 19

film: Histoire(s) du cinéma

director:  Jean-Luc Godard

writers:  Jean-Luc Godard

production: Canal+, Centre National de la Cinématographie, France 3, Gaumont, La Sept, Télévision Suisse Romande, Vega Films

release: 1988-1998

playtime: 228 mins

visual: colour

Language: French

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Cast: Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, Anne-Marie Miéville, André Malraux, Ezra Pound, Paul Celan

size: 559 mb

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Histoire(s) du cinéma is a video project begun by Jean-Luc Godard in the late 1980s and completed in 1998. It is always referred to by its French title, because of the wordplay it implies: histoire means both "history" and "story," and the s in parentheses gives the possibility of a plural. Therefore, the phrase Histoire(s) du cinéma simultaneously means The History of Cinema, The Histories of Cinema, The Story of Cinema and The Stories of Cinema. Similar double and triple meaning, as well as puns, are a recurring motif throughout Histoire(s) and much of Godard's work.

The densest of Godard's films, Histoire(s) du cinéma is an examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century; in this sense, it can also be considered a critique of the 20th century and how it perceives itself. The project is considered the major work of the late period of Godard's career; it is alternately described as an essay and a poem.

The work subdivides into four chapters of two parts each. Of those four chapters, the first was broadcasted on five European channels simultaneously, the three others have been screened at film festivals. The series was shown as part of an installation at Documenta X, the interdisciplinary arts festival in Kassel, Germany, in 1997. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has screened each episode as it has become available. An extended essay on cinema by means of cinema. A history of the cinema, and history interpreted by the cinema. An hommage and a critique. An anecdotal autobiography, illuminated by Godard's encyclopaedic wit, extending the idiom established by Jean-Luc Godard par Jean-Luc Godard. An epic – and non-linear – poem. A freely associative essay. A vast multi-layered musical composition. Histoire(s) du cinéma is all of these. It is above all, a work made by a man who loves and is fascinated by the world of film. For American movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, Godard's video series represents the culmination of 20th century filmmaking, and is a work ‹of enormous importance›: ‹Just as Finnegans Wake, the art work to which Histoire(s) du cinéma seems most comparable, situates itself at some theoretical stage after the end of the English language as we know it, Godard's magnum opus similarly projects itself into the future in order to ask, What was cinema?.

Chapter 1(a) : 51 min.
    Toutes les histoires (1988) - All the (Hi)stories
Chapter 1(b) : 42 min.
    Une Histoire seule (1989) - A Single (Hi)story
Chapter 2(a) : 26 min.
    Seule le cinema (1997) - Only Cinema
Chapter 2(b) : 28 min.
    Fatale beauté (1997) - Deadly Beauty
Chapter 3(a) : 27 min.
    La Monnaie de l’absolu (1998) - The Coin of the Absolute
Chapter 3(b) : 27 min.
    Une Vague Nouvelle (1998) - A New Wave
Chapter 4(a) : 27 min.
    Le Côntrole de l’univers (1998) - The Control of the Universe
Chapter 4(b) : 38 min.
    Les Signes parmi nous (1998) - The Signs Among Us


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Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire%28s%29_du_cin%C3%A9ma

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