{"id":1921,"date":"2009-06-14T20:42:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T03:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2009\/06\/14\/jean-luc-godard-film\/"},"modified":"2009-06-17T14:42:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T21:42:30","slug":"jean-luc-godard-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/06\/14\/jean-luc-godard-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Luc Godard Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WzCZ6CVr5x0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WzCZ6CVr5x0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Film director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Luc_Godard\"><i>Jean-Luc Godard<\/i><\/a> is making a film that appears to be called <i>Le Socialisme<\/i>.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not entirely certain, but it sure looks to me from this trailer for the film like Mr. Godard is shooting with a small video camera.&nbsp; I can even hear the wind hitting the microphone during shots on board the ship.&nbsp; He&#8217;s always had a keen interest in shooting with small cameras, going so far at one point as to have a tiny 35 mm camera designed for one of his films in the seventies.&nbsp; I like this kind of filmmaking.&nbsp; This is how a filmmaker approaches a method that resembles the method of the painter or the writer.&nbsp; Filmmaking, for all its technical achievements and its massive budgets and enormous popularity, lags far behind painting, photography, writing and music.&nbsp; A filmmaker, in order to really be an artist, must be capable of functioning with the autonomy of the writer or the painter or the composer.&nbsp; Until then, the filmmaker is simply interested in socializing, not making art.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Godard&#8217;s films are often difficult, infuriating, perplexing, gorgeous, ugly, profound, ridiculous, and experimental &#8211; but they are always, without a single exception, the expressions of an artist who owes nothing to anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film director Jean-Luc Godard is making a film that appears to be called Le Socialisme.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not entirely certain, but it sure looks to me from this trailer for the film like Mr. Godard is shooting with a small video camera.&nbsp; I can even hear the wind hitting the microphone during shots on board the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,4],"tags":[450],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-comment","category-movies","tag-godard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}