"Kinbrody and the Ceejays"

The highlight of the latest issue of Cinema Scope magazine is without a doubt Bill Krohn's nearly 8,000-word takedown of Richard Brody's meretricious Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard. Krohn's piece stands on its own as a biographical-historical work of amazing breadth, even as it figures as the most clear-sighted and methodical critical analysis of Brody's demented book that I've read to date. This important essay — which, I might add, doubles as an evisceration of the current vogue for the dip-your-toes-in-the-water-and-swish approach to arts writing — is now available online and in full at the Cinema Scope website: here.

It's worth noting that although Brody has now ascended, with the circumstance of his book's publication, to the rank of THE anglophone go-to guy for words concerning Jean-Luc Godard in particular and French cinema in general, he has no involvement whatsoever with the 80-page book that accompanies the forthcoming Masters of Cinema Series release of Godard's Une femme mariée. Simply put, the volume's present-day contributions from Krohn, and Luc Moullet, set a welcome new standard for discussion of the everything that is Godard's cinema.

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