Kritikere er også soldater, men

Hårdt, præcist Godard-citat, jeg ikke kendte, i samtale mellem to 8andre) helte, David Cronenberg og Jim Jarmusch, i (helten) Warhols gamle magasin Interview:

JARMUSCH: I don’t know. I get so depressed by these humans.

CRONENBERG: Humans can be very depressing, yeah. That’s why I really love babies, because they haven’t learned how to be destructive yet. [Laughs]

JARMUSCH: Now we’re getting a little negative. But when I get depressed by the state of the world, I try to appreciate the very strange phenomenon of having a consciousness. I think, “Life on earth is such a fragile, brief thing.” The fact that we’re even here talking to each other is remarkable, and therefore something to celebrate. My friend Joe Strummer from the Clash always used to say to people, “When you get really low, you only have to remember one thing: You’re alive!” So I try to hold that close. But lately, I don’t know.

CRONENBERG: You might be able to find some people who walk around thinking they’re dead. That’s the problem.

JARMUSCH: Right. Your films have tenderness and warmth in them in places, even though critics don’t always project those qualities onto you. The end of Crimes of the Future is tender, warm, and moving to me.

CRONENBERG: Our relationship with the critics, of course, is kind of contentious.

JARMUSCH: I like that quote—I think it’s Godard—it goes, “Critics are soldiers too, but they’re firing on their own troops.”

CRONENBERG: The idea that my filmmaking has always been cold was the critique of The Shrouds. I never felt that I was making cold films. I always wanted to avoid sentimentality and cliched emotional hooks, but cold? There are one or two critics who’ve jumped on that. And I ignore them, of course.

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Eksemplarisk eksempel fra en blogpost af Richard Brody på New Yorkers hjemmeside om Brd. Coens nye film Indside Llewyn Davis, der (åbenbart) slutter med, at Bob Dylan ankommer til New Yorks folk-scene:

P.S. “Inside Llewyn Davis” is a wintry movie, taking place in early 1961. Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” opened in New York on February 7, 1961 (at which time it was reviewed in The New Yorker by … Roger Angell, whose passionately enthusiastic review is one of the most keenly discerning that the movie has ever received). In 1988, in the magazine Actuel, Godard spoke at length about Dylan, explaining that he considered himself to be in “correspondence” with Dylan, and that he saw his own artistic career in parallel with Dylan’s. 

OMG, Godard, Jean Luc-lykkelig

60'ernes udødelige FRISKHED! Jeg læser Frank O'Hara, mere om ham senere, med garanti, og ser Godards Bande á part fra 1964, som er gnistrende løsagtig:

Det ene minuts café-stilhed (hvor også reallyden forsvinder) og det vilde løb gennem Louvre for at slå rekorden for hurtigste besøg og den lange danse-sekvens skiftevis med musik og empatisk voice-over og smukke Anna Karinas pludseligt altovertagende sang.

Overstadigt og yndefuldt eksperimenterende:

Derfor (c) (et citat på prosa fra i gårs Guardian, ikke flere London-sonetter, jeg er hjemme)

Jean-Luc Godard has a solution to Europe's financial crisis. It's as simple and ingenious as one would expect from the man, who with all the young guns of the Nouvelle Vague, freed cinema from its studio straitjacket in the 1960s. "The greeks gave us logic. We owe them for that. It was Aristotle who came up with the big 'therefore'. As in 'You don't love me any more, therefore ...' Or 'I found you in bed with another man, therefore ...' We use this word millions of times, to make our most important decisions. It's about time we started paying for it.
 If every time we use the word therefore, we have to pay 10 euros to Greece, the crisis will be over in one day, and the greeks will not have to sell Parthenon to the Germans. We have the tehnology to track down all those therefore on Google. We can even bill people by iPhone. Every time Angela Merkel tells the Greeks we lent you all this money, therefore you must pay us back with interest, she must therefore first pay them their royalites."