Godard’s Surprise Win Is a Victory for Independent Cinema — newyorker.com

On Saturday, the National Society of Film Critics, of which I’m a member, bestowed the award for Best Picture of 2014 upon Jean-Luc Godard’s “Goodbye to Language,” and all hell broke loose. Or, rather, the news prompted a spurt of indignant invective online that has the incidental virtue of proving that the eighty-four-year-old Godard’s exceptional artistry remains as radical, provocative, and therefore divisive as ever.

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