Image Book Review: Godard’s Powerful Survey of Movies and Politics
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Cultural history in revelatory clips from Ophuls to Obama
The Image Book (Kino Lorber) Cultural history in revelatory clips from Ophuls to Obama S o many fascinating film clips, obscure and familiar, appear before our eyes in The Image Book that it is like a two-hour cinema survey class offering a cascading excess of movie history. The plot? That’s in the student/viewer’s mind — it’s whatever you have the political and sentimental wherewithal to make of this cavalcade in which film shots are juxtaposed with classical art, as well as with documentary and recent news video that even includes ISIS propaganda. Who would dare such an exhibition except Jea
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