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Dec 23, 2022Liked by Tosh Berman

Fitting with his best communist flirt instinctively poised against the taxes he created for populist causes ( and his fear of the outcome of such thinking , such creative philosophy s d punishable success! ( Jean Luc Le Fou)!

Nonetheless he was a great artist for whatever reason !!!!

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Dec 23, 2022Liked by Tosh Berman

Goddard is more enigmatic and more anal retentive too

I also spent a week o do with him in the same house .

Suffice it to say ;

H had a graphic background in design for Movies posters and a sense of distributors sizzle for the elements of emerging markets, add to that he was struggling like many in Europe with the individual vs meaningful public samaritainism -- yet add to that the dilemma of needing it to be philosophically sound ( instantly meaningful while driven by Cartesian coordination !!!!

It’s no wonder the German writer , Heinrich von Kleist shot himself on the beach because he could not choose Good over good deeds !

Someone said you shouldn’t shit and Goddard said yes but look here at the outcome -- then add a little upper left ver from the Medicis or Columbus !!!

He had s lot of money in Geneva like many a great French social thinker

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Dec 23, 2022Liked by Tosh Berman

I spent a week in Hyere with Margurite

She was s beast beyond measure it seemed to me , browbeating her assistant even on the airplane flying back to Paris ..Her films are a fantasy that is compensation for the reality .

It helps to have Alain Resnais to realize their beauty too

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Thanks again Tosh. I love Duras’ writing but I’m not familiar with this one. And Godard is another favorite. The others except Robert Ryan who was always a part of my young life and times watching movies, are not familiar but are now.

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Sorry for the typos

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