Film Criticism You Can Use

Writing about Film Forum's Godard's 60s series and the Walter Reade's 1968: An International Perspective series in the current L, Michael Joshua Rowin posits the theory that "the 60s belonged to Jean-Luc Godard." An ambitious theory you might test out today: Godard's prankish meta-movie musical A Woman Is a Woman plays at Film Forum, perhaps showcasing Godard's tendency towards "joining the jagged rhythms of pop with free-floating cinematic and philosophical detritus," and "dissolving distinctions between cinema as sociological documentation and as funhouse genre collage."

Meanwhile, up at Lincoln Center, there are a couple matinees of films mjr suggests as having that kind of aesthetically and socially ambitious mash-up outlook: "Dusan Makavejev’s WR: Mysteries of the Organism, a gonzo documentary about/enactment of the sexual revolution preached by Wilhelm Reich," and "Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool, a media critique and fictional intrusion into the real unfolding violence of the ’68 Democratic convention." So go, and tell us if we're right.