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August 03, 2005
What makes movies matter? The characters' lives will go on after the credits have rolled
Edinburgh Film Festival artistic director Shane Danielsen talks about Godard and what makes movies matter in the Telegraph: "Would Danielsen like to make a movie of his own? "Yes... I probably won't because there are too many movies in the world already. In his novel Mao II, Don DeLillo wrote that true beauty is found in the withheld work of art. But, if I ever did direct a film, it would be brilliant. Of course!" ... "My litmus test for a film is: does it attest to the possibility of a whole world going on outside the frame? Time and time again, when I'm dissatisfied with a movie, it's because I don't believe in the characters and they don't inhabit a real world. Whereas a really great film, and even just a good one, suggests that those lives will go on after the credits have rolled. Godard's Masculin, féminin does that."
Posted by pride at August 3, 2005 03:56 AM
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