[The following is my translation of Luc Moullet’s review collection Piges Choisies (“Selected Paychecks”, 2009, Capricci). Articles translated elsewhere have been linked with credits. The uncredited images are my additions from the internet; the original volume contains none.]
The Twelve Ways of Being a Filmmaker
1. MY BEGINNINGS
Binary Unity (Que viva Mexico)
2. MY MASTERS
Georges Sadoul: The Goats of Le Poil
François Truffaut: Seesaws and Connections
Jean-Luc Godard:
– Jean-Luc Godard [Translated by David Wilson]
– A Cosmic Film [Translated by Ted Fendt]
3. THE ROYAL PENTAGON
Sam Fuller in Marlowe’s footsteps [Translated by Norman King]
Luis Buñuel: Otras Inquisiciones (The Exterminating Angel)
Raúl Ruiz: All is two, except Allah who is one (The Blind Owl) [Translated by Rouge]
Robert Bresson: Think, You Fool
4. THE HEXAGON AND ITS FACETS
A Small Treatise on Cinematic Determinism
The Mysteries of Paris: An Investigation by Inspector Juross
The Maoists of the Centre du cinéma
Hazards, Counterpoints and Meteorites
5. THE WOMB OF AMERICA
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break: A “Non-sense” Gem
A King in New York: Austerity of Style
The Quiet American: Metaphysics of the Arabesque
The Naked and the Dead: Better than the Bridge on the River Kwai
Wind Across the Everglades: On Inspiration and Neorealism
John Ford: The Slide of the Admiral
Edgar G. Ulmer: Webs of Destiny and Bits of String [Translated by Ted Fendt & Adrian Martin]
6. FESTIVALS
The Martyrdom of San Sebastian
7. THEORY
On the Harmfulness of Film Language, on Its Uselessness, and on the Means to Combat It
Dispositivism in Contemporary Cinema
Long Live Oaks! Down With Penguins!
8. ELOQUENCE OF THE SILENTS
Ah Yes! Griffith was a Marxist! [Translated by Ted Fendt]
Bruegel, Kafka, Jump Cut and Beckett
Towards A Pure Fiction: Cecil B. DeMille [Translated by Ted Fendt]
9. TURKEYS & WINDBAGS
Adam & Eve: Doesn’t Measure Up to the Subject
Young Sinners: Missing the Small Picture
Pedro Almodóvar: Nothing About My Mother
10. SURPRISE STARS & REVELATIONS
Michelangelo Antonioni: A Serene Nihilism (Blow Up)
Coline Serreau: The Cellular Tree (Saint-Jacques… La Mecque)
The Devil’s Blast: Unstill Life
Gian Vittorio Baldi, Real Winner of Tours Festival, Isn’t Among the Awardees
Jorge Furtado: The Goldsmith of Porto Alegre
The Bravura Sequence [Translated by Ted Fendt]
James Ellroy and the Revolution of ’89
The Seventh Art 
July 7, 2019 at 7:13 am
Back! Just finished reading the Godard essay.
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