Last Updated on January 25, 2024, 9:59 AM | Published: January 25, 2024
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) sends this information as posted below:
Godard Cinema + Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars
Saturday, January 27 | 5 pm
An essential exploration of the French New Wave pioneer’s revolutionary body of work, the acclaimed documentary Godard Cinema will be followed by Jean-Luc Godard’s enigmatic final short film, Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars, an intricate collage of notes, images, clips and music from the director’s own archive.
“Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era’s progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.” -Kino Lorber
Cyril Leuthy | 2022 | In French with English subtitles | 100 minutes | NR | DCP
screening with Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars
“At the time of his death in September 2022, Jean-Luc Godard had been in the midst of planning another feature, an adaptation of Belgian author Charles Plisnier’s 1937 novel Faux Passports. Though the film was never produced, the intricate and beautiful “trailer” that Godard put together in preparation now stands as his final work, a complex collage of history, politics, and cinema constructed of paper and glue, paintings and photographs, sound and silence. Godard often transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs. His swan song follows in this tradition and will remain as the ultimate gesture of cinema, which he accompanies with the following text: “Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by returning to the locations of past film shoots, while keeping track of modern times.”” -Toronto Film Festival
Jean-Luc Godard | 2023 | In French with English subtitles | 20 minutes | NR | DCP
About the Samuel Roberts Noble Theater at OKCMOA
Incorporating the original 1947 Centre Theater as an adaptive reuse project, the 250-seat Samuel Roberts Noble Theater features a state-of-the-art projection system and is home to the Museum’s film program, which presents screenings every Thursday through Sunday.
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