>A colleague is teaching a course with a couple of readings on the Paris >uprisings of 1968. She wants to know if there are any films that deal with >this historical moment. I can't think of any. Are there any encyclopedists >and/or specialists on the list who can? In a sense, Krin, Godard's LE GAI SAVOIR is about May '68. Or maybe "around May '68" would be more accurate. The film was shot before May, but was edited and released after it--and it deals with a young couple (in a darkened studio) talking about revolution. Then, of course, there's also LA CHINOISE, Godard's prescient 1967 film about Maoist students in Paris. Plus, his TOUT VA BIEN (1971; his return to big-budget filmmaking after the Dziga Vertov Group days) also makes numerous references to 1968. In TVB Yves Montand is a former radical filmmaker who now makes TV commercials and Jane Fonda is a journalist. Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin's companion piece to TVB, LETTER TO JANE, deconstructs Fonda's media image and, I believe, makes some references to May '68. Sylvia Harvey's MAY '68 AND FILM CULTURE (BFI, 1978) might help further. Regards, ---- Jeremy Butler mailto:[log in to unmask] SCREENsite: http://www.sa.ua.edu/SCREENsite/ Telecommunication & Film/University of Alabama/Tuscaloosa ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]