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Future Imperfect: Jacques Tati’s Playtime vs. Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend

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|Hannah Baxter| 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left is a memoir by the surrealist English folk rocker Robyn Hitchcock. The book focuses on a defining year of Hitchcock’s adolescence, one in which he discovered the musicians—Bob Dylan chief among them—who… Continue reading

Remaking Breathless: A Bizarre Choice, Starring Richard Gere

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Still from the opening scene of the remake of Breathless. The blue flowing title is superimposed over Richard Gere.

|Jake Rudegeair| Ever seen First Knight (1995)? I didn’t think so. It was my first tangle with Gere as the famous Sir Lancelot of legend. I was ten and even then I wasn’t buying it. He’s an invincible swordsman and a treasonous Don Juan? I was put off by the cool-guy affect, anachronistic… Continue reading