Jean-Pierre Gorin
Director · b. 1943 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Jean-Pierre Gorin (born 17 April 1943) is a French filmmaker and professor, best known for his work with Nouvelle Vague luminary Jean-Luc Godard, during what is often referred to as Godard's "radical" period. Jean-Pierre Gorin was a student of Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan. He was a radical leftist well before meeting Godard in 1966. Godard relied on some of his discussions with Gorin while writing the script of 1967's La Chinoise. Gorin played a role in making Le Gai Savoir, which was released in 1969. In 1968, Gorin and Godard founded the collective Dziga Vertov Group and together produced a series of overtly political films including Vent d'est (1970), Tout va bien (1972), and Letter to Jane (1972).
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Movie7.2DocumentaryThe film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was staged.
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
1974 · 13 votes
Movie5.6DocumentaryJean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.
Movie3.2DocumentaryThis distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic and a psychoanalyst – discuss what cinema has meant to them, what it is and what it could be and, implicitly, how it has changed over the 18 years in which this film was shot. Director Boris Lehman leads the charge, drawing in moments of absurdist humour and inventive camera work; he keeps things raw and spontaneous. His encounters with the now much-missed Jean Rouch and Stephen Dwoskin are particularly touching and stand testament to their personal playfulness and candour. An engaging, absorbing, epic odyssey of a movie.
Movie7.5DocumentarySpring 1970: Godard and Gorin, on the road, visiting colleges, speaking with Andrew Sarris, and explaining, through illustrated notebooks, their newest Dziga Vertov Group project, a film on Palestine.
Godard in America
1970 · 2 votes
MovieDocumentaryGodard to come to the University California, San Diego to give a lecture. He stayed at our house at the beach. Some filmmakers and creatives came to visit him. They all stayed at our house on the beach. Guests were Heiner Müller, Wim Wenders, Martin Milner, Jim Mc Bride, Tom Luddy and other.
Movie6.6DramaJean-Luc Godard's and Jean-Pierre Gorin's interpretation of the Chicago Eight / Chicago Seven trial, which followed the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activities. Judge Hoffman becomes the character Judge Himmler (played by Ernest Menzer) and the defendants become a microcosms of the French Revolution.
MovieDocumentaryDocumentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.
Milagrez
2008
Movie6.8DocumentaryJean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor, artist/writer Manny Farber.
Routine Pleasures
1986 · 8 votes
Movie6.8DocumentaryDocumentary by Jean-Pierre Gorin about twin girls who spontaneously developed their own unique language as children.
Poto and Cabengo
1980 · 6 votes
MovieJean-Pierre Gorin, encore un effort pour être cinématonné is a fake Cinématon. It is not part of the Cinématon anthology and is therefore relegated to the category of Cinématons outside the collection.