guardian.co.uk - 11/29/2008
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Those of us who made films in the 70s were not following the zeitgeist: we shaped it, writes William Friedkin
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... Plaza or the new Cineplex," writes Michael Wood in the London Review of Books. "This is a man who is making a video work that is a sort of successor to the cinema as an art form, as well as an act of mourning for it. But he sees the art form itself only in its old purity, the New Wave that died without getting old. There is a reason, then, for trusting the images rather than the text, and Godard is right to speak as fondly as he does of montage."
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