The View from There
“Ninety percent of a director’s job is casting,” about a thousand movie directors have said over the years…
Jean-Luc Godard’s classic 1963 film Contempt—his most commercially successful feature—is best known for its leading lady, Brigitte Bardot, the main event in an all-star cast that included Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and the legendary director Fritz Lang. It also has the pedigree of its source material: a novel by Alberto Moravia; the sun, sand, and sea of the dazzling Isle of Capri; the modernist Casa Malaparte as its indelible final location; and Godard himself, the foremost exponent of the New Wave, here deconstructing a marriage, a myth, the act of selling out, and cinema itself. As if all that weren’t enough, the lavish production of Contempt served as the springboard for a pair of short black-and-white films, both capturing the Zeitgeist of that glamorous moment. READ ON
Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley
Chris Garrett Michael Hainey Nathan King
Angela Panichi
John Tornow
Jim Kelly
Laura Jacobs
Ashley Baker
Ash Carter
Julia Vitale
Ann Schneider
Elena Clavarino Clementine Ford Alex Oliveira Elinor Schneider
Cazzie David
Emma Freud
Walter Isaacson
Pico Iyer
John Lahr
James Wolcott
Bill Cohan Rich Cohen Stuart Heritage George Kalogerakis Sam Kashner Alexandra Marshall
Isabelle Harvie-Watt
Bridget Arsenault
Anna Bradlee
Bob Mankoff
Randall Poster
Adam Nadler
Matt Kapp
Emine Gozde Sevim
H. Scott Jolley
Gasper Tringale-White
Emily Davis
Anjali Lewis
Michael Pescuma
Marc Leyer
Madeline Spates