Excerpts: Godard tells Narboni that Israelis currently occupy a territory that belongs to "their eternal fiction, from biblical times onward." When Narboni states that the term "fiction" is offensive, Godard flippantly replies that Israelis live on "reality TV," whereas Palestinians exist "in a film by Frederick Wiseman," the starkly tragic, albeit American Jewish, documentarian.
...In (Godard's) 1964 (movie) "A Married Woman" ("Une Femme Mariée"), a character states: "Today, in Germany, I said to someone, 'How about if tomorrow, we kill all the Jews and the hairdressers?'He replied, 'Why the hairdressers?'"____________________________________________Are They Giving an Oscar to an Anti-Semite?
'Strange Thing Hollywood,' Where the Dishonorable are Honored
By Benjamin Ivry
Forward newspaper (NY) October 08, 2010Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences intends to award an honorary Oscar to iconic French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard on November 13. But will the academy be honoring a notoriously vocal, albeit French-speaking, anti-Semite?
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