Made in USA (1966) Screenshots: Godard's Timeless Take on Politics

Given the current political insanity in the US, this exchange in Jean-Luc Godard's rebellious Made in USA (1966) made me laugh, and cringe, a lot more than it would have a year ago. I've added the subtitles below each shot in case they are too difficult to read:

Left and Right are the same.

There's no changing them!

The Right...

because it's so cruel it's brainless.

The Left because it's sentimental

Left and Right are completely obsolete notions.

We shouldn't phrase things in those terms.

How then?

Images: Ann Savage, 1945 and 2007

Detour (1945)

My Winnipeg (2007)

Image: Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave in Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave in Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

Image: Desperate (1947)

Raymond Burr and William Challee in Desperate (1947)

Image: The Pleasure Seekers

Carol Lynley, Pamela Tiffin, and Ann-Margret in The Pleasure Seekers (1964)

Images: Dorothy Malone, Kristen Wiig and Oil Wells

Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind (1956)

Kristen Wiig in The Spoils of Babylon (2014)

Screenshots of the Week: Barbara Bel Geddes and Henry Fonda in The Long Night (1947)

Screenshot of the Week: Kay Francis

Kay Francis hits her target in British Agent (1934).

Screenshots of the Week: An Arrow Through the Heart

Ginger Rogers in Carefree (1938)

Madonna, 2015

Here are some lovely additions courtesy of Dsata:

Richard Egan and Jane Russell in The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)

Model photographed by Nina Leen, 1947

Hans Makart, Detail from The Dream after the Ball, 19th Century

Screenshots of The Week: The Recycled Dress

Barbara Stanwyck's bold button collar dress in Baby Face (1933) is worn again by an office worker in Housewife (1934):

George Brent is in both films too!

Screenshot of the Week: Anita Ekberg in Boccaccio '70

Anita Ekberg plays around in Boccaccio '70 (1962).

Screenshot of the Week: Kay Francis

Picture perfect Kay Francis in The House on 56th Street (1933)

Screenshot of the Week: Clark Gable and Joan Crawford

Clark Gable and Joan Crawford canoodle in Chained (1934)

Screenshots of the Week: Lipstick on the Mirror

Pre-Post-it communications in Slightly Scarlet (1956) and Butterfield 8 (1960)

Screenshot of the Week: Jerry Lewis Struts

Jerry Lewis, ready to strut in Cinderfella (1960)

Screenshot of the Week: A Reflection

Barbara Dennek in Jacques Tati's Playtime (1967)

Screenshot of the Week: Butch Jenkins and Margaret O'Brien

Jackie "Butch" Jenkins watches Margaret O'Brien at school in Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945).