Sunday, May 17, 2009  5 by Godard (in color!)  Over at Bill's
pad, The Kind of Face You Hate, a post about the great Val
Lewton segued into a discussion as to the merits of Godard's
more 'minimalist' black and white films versus his more 'formal'
color pictures. Since I've been inundated with finals and
projects and the like, my time to waste with my fellow movie
nerds (I mean that affectionately) has been cut down severely,
and I missed out on a fascinating discussion with my pals Bill,
Ed, and Greg about one of my personal favorites (it was already
several posts ago at Bill's blog, damn you guys and your
commitment to updating!). So consider this my own bumbling
contribution to that particular thread. I'll look at five of
Godard's first six seven color features, and try to explain why
his use of color has so impacted the way I watch movies.  I
don't know if a film maker has ever taught me more about screen
color and its implications than Jean-Luc Godard. This is, after
all, the film maker who understood tha