Posts Tagged ‘BFI’
Bad Lieutenant
Always with the half-truths. I, perhaps like Werner Herzog, have not yet seen Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant, a movie from 1992 starring Harvey Keitel as the eponymous bad cop facing his demons. What follows is a clip of Herzog speaking about his forthcoming re-envisioning of Bad Lieutenant, with the novel appellation “Port of Call New Orleans”. Note his insistence on mispronouncing Ferrara’s name. What a card.
Godard ou Truffaut
Two of the biggest names from La Nouvelle Vague. Often the first two directors of the French New Wave that we, the young or uninitiated, come across. And the films of both are undergoing some form of British revival, with restored prints doing the independent cinema rounds thanks to the BFI. As a youngster, and with a keen but uninitiated father, I am currently exploring the oeuvres of Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut at one such cinema, and would like to self-indulgently reflect on an important difference between two key works: Les 400 Coups, and Pierrot le Fou. Side by side:
