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Brody's is a good, scholarly life, of interest not only to a charmed circle of initiates, and its lapses are fairly minor ones of judgement (he mystify ingly dismisses Bande à part, one of the most puckishly magical films ever made, while praising the almost unwatchable King Lear as being among Godard's finest achievements) and tone (the book is utterly devoid of irony, something that cannot be said about its subject's films).
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Praise Be to Godard
Praise be to Godard Everything Is Cinema: the Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard Richard Brody Faber & Faber, 720pp, £30
Truffant once observed that the ordinary man in the street had two jobs, his own and that of film critic. Nowadays, a film crit...See the full content of this document
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