Henry wrote:
"Godard was certainly influenced ('informed') by Deleuze ..."
Henry, I am not so sure about this. In the interviews around
HISTOIRE(S), whenever JLG is pumped about the Deleuze influence, he
expresses nothing but disdain: in the POSITIF interview, for example
(one of the best, because the questions are really interrogative and
critical, rather than fawning and idolatory), when asked about the
CINEMA books, he says something like: "Maybe Deleuze had some ideas,
but he couldn't write" !!!! I asked some people who know Godard (who
shall remain nameless ... ) about this remark, and the response was a
firm conviction that, in fact, Godard had never read Deleuze, beyond
maybe a book cover or two! On the other hand, there are quasi-Deleuzian
formulations from JLG's mouth in two periods of the 70s: near the end
of the militant period (i.e., around the time of ANTI-OEDIPUS' first
release), and then again at the end of the 70s, when he makes SAUVE QUI
PEUT (his 'input-output' machinic ideas). However, a hypothesis here is
that much of this rhetoric (I don't mean that in a bad way) came
filtered through Jean-Pierre Gorin - who was/is definitely a reader of
Deleuze beyond the front covers! Gorin's essay, mid 80s, on Manny
Farber's painting is a supremely Deleuzian text, and he still talks of
films as 'machines with multiple entry points', etc (see his excellent
interviews on recent Criterion releases).
Of course, there are a thousand ways to fruitfully interrelate Godard
and Deleuze, but I am not sure one can rest that relation on 'direct
influence'.
Adrian
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