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July 23, 2008, 7:00 PM

La Chinoise

Chamber Film Screening
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
 

Acclaimed director Jean-Luc Godard presents one of his most controversial and political films, focusing on a small group of French students who want to change the world by using any means necessary. After studying Mao and the Chinese cultural revolution, the students decide that they must use terrorism to achieve their goals.

A discussion with Richard Brody and Philoctetes Center Film Coordinator Matthew von Unwerth will follow the screening.

Richard Brody has worked in various capacities in the film business (including documentary researcher, writer, and producer) and in advertising, before writing and directing, as an independent filmmaker, the feature film Liability Crisis, which was released in 1995. He wrote book reviews for Forward beginning in 1996 and started writing for The New Yorker in 1999. Among his publications are articles about the directors Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Samuel Fuller. In 2001, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co. commissioned him to write a critical biography of Godard based on his profile of the filmmaker that appeared in The New Yorker. Since 2005, he has been the movie listings editor at The New Yorker, where he writes film reviews and a DVD column. Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard is his first book.

This film is being screened by permission from Koch Lorber Films.

 
 

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