Category Archives: Paris

Camera Lucida – Roland Barthes (1980)

Posted on September 26, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Camera Lucida (French: La chambre claire) is a short book published in 1980 by the French literary theorist and philosopher Roland Barthes. It is simultaneously an inquiry into the nature and essence of photography and a eulogy to Barthes’ late … Continue reading →

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Jean-Luc Godard, Daring Director Who Shaped the French New Wave, Dies at 91

Posted on September 13, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Jean-Luc Godard, the daringly innovative director and provocateur whose unconventional camera work, disjointed narrative style and penchant for radical politics changed the course of filmmaking in the 1960s, leaving a lasting influence on it, died on Tuesday at his home … Continue reading →

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The Screens – Jean Genet (1961)

Posted on September 11, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Screens (French: Les Paravents) is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. Its first few productions all used abridged versions, beginning with its world premiere under Hans Lietzau‘s direction in Berlin in May 1961. Its first complete performance … Continue reading →

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On the Poverty of Student Life

Posted on September 8, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“On the Poverty of Student Life: A Consideration of Its Economic, Political, Sexual, Psychological and Notably Intellectual Aspects and of a Few Ways to Cure it … is a pamphlet first published by students of the University of Strasbourg and … Continue reading →

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Alain Robbe- Grillet: Six Films, 1963-1974

Posted on September 2, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

L’Homme qui ment (1968) “When a body of work is inherently made up of intricately layered themes and hidden caches of ideas, surmising the work as a whole can be extremely difficult.  This is never more prescient than in the … Continue reading →

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Jean-Luc Godard: His Life to Live

Posted on August 1, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In the October 1950 Issue of La Gazette du cinema, a young Jean-Luc Godard, writing pseudonymously, penned a sentence that serves, for biographer Richard Brody, as a skeleton key to the legendary director’s often-inscrutable inner workings: ‘At the cinema, we … Continue reading →

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Inside the Beat Hotel of Paris

Posted on July 22, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘I lay there on the floor, he makes love to Nanette all night, as she whimpers,’ wrote Jack Kerouac, recalling the night he slept in Room 41 of a Parisian ‘fleabag’ in the Latin Quarter that his friend and fellow … Continue reading →

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Lacombe, Lucien – Louis Malle (1974)

Posted on June 12, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Review by Pauline Kael: “Introducing himself to a delicate, fine-boned parisienne, the farm-boy hero of Louis Malle’s new movie does not give his name as Lucien Lacombe; he gives the bureaucratic designation—Lacombe, Lucien. He presents himself name inverted because he … Continue reading →

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Alberto Giacometti

Posted on June 10, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Studio in Paris in 1958 “Alberto Giacometti (…10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see … Continue reading →

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Yves Klein (1928 – 1962)

Posted on June 4, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Yves Klein (28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic … Continue reading →

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