“Jean-Luc Godard’s initial idea for the film ‘Goodbye to Language,’ he said, was a simple one: ‘It’s about a man and his wife who no longer speak the same language. The dog they take on walks then intervenes and speaks.’ That does happen, sort of, eventually, without the talking.” Read more here in The New Yorker.
The film was produced in 3-D, but not in the usual way. “Normally [two cameras are] interlocked to produce a smooth image, a 3-D illusion,’ [film historian David] Bordwell explains. ‘But what Godard does in a couple of points in the film is pan one of the two cameras he uses but keep the other one fixed on the object. So in fact you get a splitting of the image — two flat images, superimposed on each other in depth. When [the] first instance of that showed up in the film at Cannes, audiences spontaneously applauded. They had never seen anything like it.'” More here from NPR.
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EDWARD TICK, Ph.D., co-founded the non-profit organization 
BERYL BENDER BIRCH, Founder and Director of 
“Remember all those lunar experiments astronaut Neil Armstrong had to carry out after he took mankind’s first steps on the moon and planted the American flag? Politis was on the elite team of engineers that developed them at Northrop Grumman. . . ‘I’d like to work with the smartest math students in school and help get them ready for algebra in middle school,’ Politis told Metson. ‘I’ll give you a 10-year commitment.’ A 10-year commitment from an 87-year-old man.” That was 10 years ago, and he continues to teach for LA Unified School District! Read more 
Until last year when Jeff Koons beat the record, Gerhard Richter was the most expensive living artist at auction (“Cathedral Square, Milan” had sold for $37 million). “But Mr. Richter, 82, remains conflicted about his superstar status. In a rare interview, he said he worried that high auction figures give him the appearance of ‘conning’ people. He believes these prices detract from the purpose of a top-notch artist: offering a spiritual substitute to religion in an increasingly secular world.” Read an interview 
Francis McDormand, 57, takes on another idiosynchratic character in a four-part mini-series for HBO next month: “Adapted from Elizabeth Strout’s 
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