Arts & Events

AROUND & ABOUT CINEMA: Godard in 3-D

Ken Bullock
Friday November 14, 2014 - 12:24:00 PM

Just as the Pacific Film Archive opens the latest installment in their ongoing Jean-Luc Godard retrospective--and 'Prenom Carmen'--1983, script by Anne-Marie Mieville, featuring Maruschka Detmers, plays Saturday night at 6:30), the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael will be presenting the West Coast exclusive premiere of Godard's latest: 'Goodbye to Language' in 3-D, through next Thursday, at the Center in downtown San Rafael, just off Highway 101.  

It promises to be another great salvo from the endlessly productive, shape-shifting yet (under it all) extraordinarily consistent Monsieur Godard. If your sense of his work ends with the 70s, you owe it to yourself to discover an artist greater than the one who surfaced with a bang around 1960--one who's built on that tour-de-force reputation with brilliance, never standing still.  

Friday through Sunday, 4:45, 7; Monday through next Thursday, 7. Rafael Smith Film Center, 1118 Fourth Street--about 7 blocks from the Central San Rafael exit, 5 blocks from the Golden Gate Transit Center--San Rafael. (415) 441-1222; rafaelfilm.cafilm.org/goodbye-to-language; Pacific Film Archive: bampfa.berkeley.org/filmseries/