A dazzling array of Godardian might-have-beens from the most meticulous and thoughtful of Godard scholars. * Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film Critic, jonathanrosenbaum.net, USA * I am a filmmaker, so for me a cinema book is only as good as the extent to which it gives me some ideas, gives me a bit of hope or shows me a way out of some confusion. Godard's films have the same role for me they are always encouraging and inspiring since any of them opens something (despite what others say to the contrary), and this great book enables us to discover that the huge corpus of unmade films by JLG can have the same function. As a filmmaker almost always in a deep crisis, Jean-Luc Godard's Unmade and Abandoned Projects helped me a lot and still helps. * Radu Jude, Filmmaker * Michael Witt has set a high bar for what it means to analyse a film directors body of work, and to locate its hetroclite traces in order to do so. He has accomplished the Herculean task of covering ALL of Godards work of this kind, giving it order, showing us its logic, understanding the zigzag ways of Godards thinking through ideas, sometimes for decades. This is a book to come back to, and to treasure as an absolutely reliable resource. * Janet Bergstrom, Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA, USA * An astounding scholarly achievement. The depth and rigour of Witts primary research is breathtaking. Once again, Witt completely reconfigures the Godardian corpus, while making a significant contribution to media archaeology and to the study of orphaned, lost or forgotten cultural objects. * Michael Temple, Emeritus Professor, Birkbeck College, London, UK *
