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In this tribute to the master of modern French cinema, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee focuses on two films – 'Breathless' and 'My Life to Live' – to capture a defining preoccupation.
and watch what i was doing and became a friend of mine was the only one more or less my contemporary and that was george lucas. i think student films are the only real hope. i think they re slowly beginning to realize that students know what they re doing. these guys saw hollywood as death. they were all very influenced by the fresh new wave in european films. that s how francis saw himself. his fantasy was that he was going to make a series of these out of hollywood movies with lucas and other people they attracted. they decided to start their own studio. called american zoetrope. the first movie is by george lucas. he makes thx 1138. and it is a flop. it goes over everybody s head. and that s a problem. it probably almost ended lucas career before it started. so american zoetrope was running into trouble. at the same time, paramount was running out of money.
became a friend of mine was the only one more or less my contemporary and that was george lucas. i think student films are the only real hope. i think they re slowly beginning to realize that students know what they re doing. these guys saw hollywood as death. they were all very influenced by the fresh new wave in european films. that s how francis saw himself. his fantasy was that he was going to make a series of these out of hollywood movies with lucas and other people they attracted. they decided to start their own studio. called american zoetrope. the first movie is by george lucas. he makes thx 1138. and it is a flop. it goes over everybody s head. and that s a problem. it probably almost ended lucas career before it started. so american zoetrope was running into trouble. at the same time, paramount was running out of money. so i said, look, what would happen if we bought the rights to some really interesting