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| | The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | In a 1963 piece on Resnais, Sontag deplored the movie’s sluggishness and the “insufferable incantatory style” of the narration. |
 | | In her 1968 piece on Godard, she summed up the director’s early work (through the 1967 “Weekend”) as an unstable compound of fiction, fantasy, lyrical essay, and literary quotation, in which “story” was a relatively trivial and expedient base upon which the most significant activity of the movie could be inscribed as commentary. |
 | | In that same piece, she quoted Walter Benjamin’s remark that “all great works of literature found a genre or dissolve one.” Godard, Bergman, Syberberg, and Fassbinder, it turned out, had reached a series of stunning dead ends, dissolving not only genres but criticism, too. |
| www.newyorker.com /critics/atlarge/articles/050912crat_atlarge (4102 words) |
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