Vladimir and Rosa
Screening with Godard in America
Schedule
Friday, June 5, 2026
Vladimir and Rosa (Dirs. Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1971, 96 min, DCP)
Screening with Godard in America (Dir. Ralph Thanhauser, 1970, 40 min, DCP)
Followed by a conversation with Jean-Pierre Gorin and David Fresko
Funded by Barney Rosset of Grove Press, who likewise paid for Godard and Gorin to tour the U.S. with their films, Vladimir and Rosa is a “Groucho” Marxist riff on the Chicago 8 conspiracy trial. The result, nonetheless, is one of the Dziga Vertov Group’s most theoretically dense and comedically outrageous works. Godard and Gorin both appear and partake in this burlesque comedy to the fullest, which thoroughly mocks the U.S. justice system as well as the American New Left. Godard and Gorin are also seen in Godard in America, a documentary about their college tour, showing notebooks and discussing their ultimately unfinished film about the Palestinian Revolution, Jusqu’à la victoire, later completed by Godard with Anne-Marie Miéville as Ici et ailleurs (1974).
Venue
Event Pricing
4PM Screening: Free (with access code or link)
7PM Screening: $5
Friends of Cinema Member Price: $5
Guest of a Member: $8 (Limit one guest per member)
Children under seventeen (17) years of age must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian at all times and may not attend events unattended.
David Fresko
David Fresko is Associate Teaching Professor of Cinema Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where he is also the Cinema Studies Program’s Undergraduate Director. His writing has appeared in Screen, Senses of Cinema, the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Metrograph Journal and elsewhere. He is currently composing a book entitled Cinematic Movements: Montage, Politics, Film, which considers the relationships between French and American filmmakers with the decolonizing world during the Long Sixties.
Cinema at L’Alliance New York is made possible by the generous support of BNP Paribas, Air France and Sofitel.
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