{"id":898,"date":"2010-12-16T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/12\/masters-of-cinema-through-french-eyes.html"},"modified":"2010-12-16T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T19:58:00","slug":"masters-of-cinema-through-french-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/12\/masters-of-cinema-through-french-eyes.html","title":{"rendered":"Masters of Cinema, Through French Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>THE French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema may be the most important, game-changing publication in the history of film, thanks to its role in the auteur theory and its instigation of the New Wave. The magazine also rethought film history in a way that honored directors like Hitchcock and Hawks at the expense of supposedly more serious French filmmakers.\u00a0<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TQpvOwnXyQI\/AAAAAAAABBk\/Fi9HgPYP720\/s1600\/hitchcock.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TQpvOwnXyQI\/AAAAAAAABBk\/Fi9HgPYP720\/s320\/hitchcock.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TQpvXFhrClI\/AAAAAAAABBo\/6n8xtGOBvVg\/s1600\/scorsese.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TQpvXFhrClI\/AAAAAAAABBo\/6n8xtGOBvVg\/s1600\/scorsese.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span>Some of Cahiers\u2019 advocacy (Sam Fuller) now seems ahead of its time; other calls (Jerrry Lewis, <\/span><span><span>&#8220;le Roi du Crazy&#8221;) still provoke head-scratching on this side of the Atlantic.<\/span><\/span><span> Cahiers skeptics, especially among the Brits, have suggested that the magazine\u2019s pantheon is geared so heavily toward explicitly visual filmmakers since its critics were too lazy to read English subtitles.\u00a0    <\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>This season, Cahiers&#8217; book arm has put out 10 thin, affordable volumes, each devoted to a different director, most of them American, and including Scorsese, Eastwood, Tim Burton and others. Dubbed &#8220;Masters of Cinema,&#8221; the series is pretty good and offers some surprises.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/2010-12-16\/film-tv\/cahiers-du-cinema-the-new-wave-in-a-new-world\/\"><span>HERE<\/span><\/a><span> is my review in today&#8217;s LA Weekly.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema may be the most important, game-changing publication in the history of film, thanks to its role in the auteur theory and its instigation of the New Wave. The magazine also rethought film history in a way that honored directors like Hitchcock and Hawks at the expense of supposedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,76,124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-film","8":"category-french","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}