At 11:43 PM -0400 10/6/98, Lang Thompson wrote: >A couple of years back there was a discussion either here or on the Godard >list about a director sometimes referred to as the "German Godard" whose >films are almost unknown in the US. Any idea who that was? Also, Oshima >was apparently at one time called the Japanese Godard which must have been >based on only a couple of his films but what other directors have been >strongly compared to Godard? "Der kleine Godard" is Hellmuth Costard. He even made a film titled "Der Kleine Godard an das Kuratorium junger deutscher Film" (1976). He was obviously a politically committed filmmaker but was (still is?) rather more experimental than Godard. For example, his "Fußball wie noch nie" ("Soccer as Never Before" 1970) used a standard multi-camera set-up to cover a soccer match, but instead of following the ball (the action), all the cameras focused on the star player of one team (who actually turned out to do relatively little) for the entire duration of the game and even followed him into the locker room at half time. Another of his films (sorry, I can't recall the exact title, and IMDb doesn't seem to list it) followed the routine activities of a housewife during the course of a day (though not in real time) with the twist being that the housewife was played by a male actor. Richard J. Leskosky ===================================================== Richard J. Leskosky Office phone: (217) 244-2704 Assistant Director FAX: (217) 244-2223 Unit for Cinema Studies <http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/cinema> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2117 Foreign Languages Building 707 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]