{"id":107,"date":"2017-02-21T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2017\/02\/21\/you-can-now-watch-jean-luc-godards-first-narrative-film\/"},"modified":"2017-02-21T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:49:00","slug":"you-can-now-watch-jean-luc-godards-first-narrative-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2017\/02\/21\/you-can-now-watch-jean-luc-godards-first-narrative-film\/","title":{"rendered":"You can now watch Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s first narrative film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while, a lost film appears, delighting film buffs and historians. In the past few years, we&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/aulibmedia.blogspot.com\/2016\/10\/a-new-lost-melies-was-discovered-after.html\">a lost M\u00e9li\u00e8s film<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/aulibmedia.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/hitchcock-firsts-film-found-watch.html\">a Hitchcock<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/aulibmedia.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/the-unexpected-new-life-of-black-angel.html\">a <i>Star Wars<\/i>-related short<\/a> all turn up after decades of absence. But this weekend, someone uploaded the Holy Grail: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/one-worlds-rarest-films-just-showed-youtube-250558\">Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s first narrative film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Une Femme Coquette<\/i> (embedded above) was suddenly and unexpectedly uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday. Although it&#8217;s not a masterwork, it&#8217;s enormously historically significant. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/what-happens-when-you-find-your-holy-grail-250413\">As <i>The A.V. Club<\/i>&#8216;s Ignatiy Vishnevetsky says<\/a>, you can see some of Godard&#8217;s early tics and style that would eventually become influential in the French New Wave.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re stunned that more and more films continue to be unearthed, especially such important ones. Come on, <i>The Day the Clown Cried<\/i>!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while, a lost film appears, delighting film buffs and historians. In the past few years, we&#8217;ve seen a lost M\u00e9li\u00e8s film, a Hitchcock, and a Star Wars-related short all turn up after decades of absence. But this weekend, someone uploaded the Holy Grail: Jean-Luc Godard&#8217;s first narrative film. Une Femme Coquette (embedded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[148,216,377],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-directors","tag-french-new-wave","tag-lost-films","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}