Histoire(s) du Cinéma: A New Wave (EOTWS)

Histoire(s) du Cinéma x8 extract: A New Wave (1998)

With A New Wave, Godard sheds some reverence for his specific epoch and movement of filmmaking. Whilst we can easily infer why he reveres the New Wave films of the 50s and 60s - baring in mind that he only really references French and Italian cinema seemingly as the only cinemas that exist alongside the cinema of Hollywood and, to a lesser degree, Germany and Sweden - nothing striking manifests itself here. In such, whilst we could assume that Godard thinks the strengths of the New Wave concern revisionism, a relationship with wold history, present day, cinematic history and individuality, there is no material in the section that I can point to in direct reference to this. 

It now then seems that Godard is succeeding in creating a cinema that does not speak and cannot be spoken about; it is, and there for he is... whilst I wish I wasn't.