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4 SHORT FILMS JEAN-LUC GODARD
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Godard once stated, "One could make a good film in twenty seconds." With that logic, one could make a great film in the measure of a short, and Godard has certainly done so time and time again. This collection includes his video short Sarajevo (1993), two pieces co-directed by Anne-Marie Mieville--Liberty and Homeland (2002) and the experimental documentary The Old Place (1998)--as well as The Origin of the 21st Century, commissioned by the Cannes Film Festival to commemorate a second century of movie magic. Shown on opening night in 2000, Godard's collage included footage of Nazi war atrocities, torture, rape, violence, and pornography, interspersed with images of children from films like The Shining and Los Olvidades, and a clip from his own Breathless. "Although it goe s down like a draft of hemlock, Origin of the 21st Century is an antidote to the celebratory inventories that marked the century's end" (The Village Jean-Luc Godard/Anne-Marie Mieville---France---1993-2002---85 mins.
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ALPHAVILLE
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Eddie Constantine is Lemmy Caution, inter-galactic private eye, in this bravura mix of comic strip, science fiction and film noir in what is ultimately a new style of cinema in which form and content are identical. Lemmy sets out to dispose of diabolical scientist Leonard von Braun (a.k.a. Leonard Nosferatu) from Alphaville, the futuristic city run by an electronic brain, where love has been banished. A film in which poetry mixes freely with pulp to create a new dimension, a new cinematic reality. In French with Jean-Luc Godard---France---1965---100 mins.
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BAND OF OUTSIDERS
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Anna Karina plays the young beauty drawn into the poorly planned crime scheme of Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur in Godard's playful, audacious, and emotionally complex New Wave classic. "It's as if a French poet took a banal American crime novel and told it to us in terms of the romance and beauty he read between the lines...perhaps Godard's most delicately charming film" (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker). In French with English subtitles. Jean-Luc Godard---France---1964---95 mins.
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BREATHLESS (CRITERION)
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The landmark film by Godard that helped usher in the French New Wave.
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BREATHLESS (GODARD)
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The landmark film by Godard that helped usher in the French New Wave. Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as a small-time hood on the run from the law, having an affair with an American girl in Paris (Jean Seberg). Even though A Bout de Souffle owes much to American film noir and even B-movies (it's dedicated to Monogram Pictures), its innovative visual style revolutionized the world of film. Based on a story by Francois Truffaut. "Godard's great innovation lies in the identification of the title to the camerawork and aesthetics of the film. With fast editing and unresolved camera movements, Godard disseminated the very essence of his hero's lifestyle..." (Spiros Gangas, Edinburgh University Film Society). In French with English subtitles. Jean-Luc Godard---France---1960---90 mins.
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CONTEMPT
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One of the best "movie movies" ever made, Contempt stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter called in to doctor the script of a film version of The Odyssey as his marriage to his stunningly sexy wife (Brigitte Bardot) fall s apart. The legendary Fritz Lang plays himself as the movie's director and Jack Palance is hilariously arrogant as the American producer. References to the Homer tale and contemporary movie culture abound in this endlessly fascinating movie shot in Cinemascope and Technicolor. Colin MacCabe went so far as to call it "the greatest work of art produced in post-war Europe," in Sight and Sound. In French with English subtitles. Jean-Luc Godard---France/Italy---1963---103 mins.
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DETECTIVE, THE (GODARD)
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Jean-Luc Godard's classic crime drama centers on the Hotel Concorde in St. Lazare and an unhappily married couple (Nathalie Baye and Claude Brasseur) who unwittingly become involved with the mob as they try to collect a debt from a boxing manager. A hotel detective tries to solve a two-year-old murder case with his tense nephew. Godard ties the two stories together to present his own views on modern life, ranging from pornography to language to film itself. "A mini-masterpiece...a cross between a Grand Hotel for the 1980s and film noir...riotously funny. Built on the charisma of its stars and on the memories of the great thrillers of the '40s, tenuously held together by Godard's romantic pessimism, curiosity and sense of humor, it's co-dedicated, sensibly, to Clint Eastwood" (Tony Rayns). With Johnny Hakllysay, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Alain Cuny and Laurent Terzieff. In French with English subtitles.
Jean-Luc Godard---France---1985---95 mins.
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FILM SOCIALISME
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If scholars and fans had fun discerning the Brechtian devices and Marxist aesthetics of Godard's past films, the auteur puts his lefty geopolitics front and center in Socialism. The film travels with Patti Smith on a ferry, stages an avant-garde performance at a gas station, and splices archival footage with rhetoric designed to agitate and/or amuse.
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FOR EVER MOZART
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Godard's thoughtful, self-referential film about the intersecting of reality and art revolves around several characters trying to deal with the war in Bosnia. The film is divided into four segments--Theater, You Don't Fool with Love in Sarajevo, A Film About In-Tranquility and For Ever Mozart--during which the director makes allusions to his past masterpieces Weekend, Les Carabiniers and Contempt. An adventurous, challenging work that combines intellectual game-playing, philosophical contemplation and moments of startling beauty. In French with Jean-Luc Godard---France/Switzerland---1996---85 mins.
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HISTOIRES DU CINEMA
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Produced for French television between 1988 and 1998, Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinema is one of the most ambitious and fascinating projects of the director's remarkable career. This series of poetic "film essays" examines not only the history of cinema, but history itself, through an artistic arrangement of film clips, sound, and commentary. Jonathan Rosenbaum of Chicago Reader called the project "Daunting, provocative and very beautiful...Indispensable." In French with English subtitles.
Jean-Luc Godard---France---1988-1998---266 mins.
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HISTOIRES DU CINEMA (IMPORT)
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Godard's ambitious series of "film essays" on the history of cinema. Until Olive Films releases a Region 1 version, get this stellar 3-DVD set from Artificial Eye.
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ICI ET AILLEURS (GODARD)
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Jean-Luc Godard initiated his radical video period with this startling film that combines videotape and film, enabling him to superimpose more than two images simultaneously. Made as part of the Dziga Vertov Group (with Jean-Pierre Gorin and Anne-Marie Mieville), the film was commissioned by the Palestinians and originally titled Until Victory. The film's original purpose was to examine life in the Palestinian camps. But following the defeat of the Palestine army in the Six Day War, Ici et Ailleurs was radically transformed, becoming a meditation on how cinema records history. Godard, Gorin, and Mieville contrast a French family ("Here") with an impressionistic portrait of Palestine ("Elsewhere"), reflected and transmitted by television, books and pictures. In French with English subtitles.
Jean-Luc Godard---France---1970/1976---60 mins.
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IN PRAISE OF LOVE
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This mesmerizing meditation on love, history and human consciousness is one of Jean-Luc Godard's saddest and most beautiful films. Exquisitely shot on both 35mm film and digital video, In Praise of Love tells the story of a filmmaker fascinated and haunted by a young actress. Godard tells their tragic story in two parts, first showing their interaction at a film audition, and then flashing back to the moment they first met. "A film soaked in loveliness" (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker). In French with English subtitles. Jean-Luc Godard---Switzerland---2001---97 mins.
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JEAN LUC GODARD (SET)
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This set includes three art cinema touchstones and one recent experiment from the French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard. Breathless (France, 1960, 89 mins.) is both an ode to American film noir and B movies and the debut of innovative, politicized filmmaking style. The director's second feature, Le Petit Soldat (France, 1960, 88 mins.), was banned in France for its razor-sharp reflection of the Algerian war in a politically divided nation. Les Carabiniers (France, 1963, 80 mins.) is one of the important early-period films from Godard, as well as a parable about the stupidity and ugliness of war. Decades later, Godard continued his lifelong inquiry into the nexus between aesthetics and politics with the tri-fold essay on history, conflict, identity, and culture titled Notre Musique (Switzerland, France, 2004, 80 mins.) In French with English subtitles. Jean-Luc Godard---France/Switzerland---1960-2004---338
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JEAN-LUC GODARD 3-DISC COLL ED
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A collection of four late films from New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard, available for the first time on DVD: Passion (1982, 88 mins.), Godard's satire of filmmaking and lovemaking; First Name: Carmen (1983, 85 mins.), a gun-crazy romance that reexamines the entire femme fatale tradition; Detective (1985, 95 mins.), "a cross between a Grand Hotel for the 1980s and film noir" according to Tony Rayns; and Oh, Woe Is Me (1994, 84 mins.), starring Gerard Depardieu. In French with Engl ish Jean-Luc Godard---France---1982-1994---414 mins.
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KEEP YOUR RIGHT UP! (SOIGNE TA DROITE)
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Godard wrote, directed, and stars in this mind-boggling comedy, with a tip of the hat to Jerry Lewis, Buster Keaton, Tati, and (for good measure) Dostoyevsky.
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LA CHINOISE
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A caustic farce from Godard's "political" phase, this fast-paced 1967 work is essentially a Maoist teach-in set to film. Five members of a Parisian political cell discuss the implications of the Chinese cultural revolution and the effectiveness of terrorism amid a dizzying collage of slogans and poster art. Though his sympathies lie with Maoism, Godard's treatment of his naive, pompous characters is scathing. The result is a difficult, ambiguous film infused with a current of revolutionary electricity. In French with English Jean-Luc Godard---France---1967---93 mins.
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LE GAI SAVOIR
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Two alien beings, brought together in an empty earth space, are exposed to our culture via its popular images--a compelling experiment that not only foreshadows the use of these images in Godard's later films but also explains precisely why these images are the building blocks of any film. As Godard explains at the end, "This film is not and cannot be an attempt to explain cinema or embody its object, but merely suggests effective ways to achieve it. This is not the film that should be made, but if a film is to be made it must follow some of the paths shown here." With Jean-Pierre Leaud and Juliet Berto. In French with English subtitles. Jean-Luc Godard---France---1969---95 mins.
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LE PETIT SOLDAT
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The debut feature of Anna Karina, and Godard's second feature, this film was banned in France for its razor-sharp reflection of the Algerian war in a politically divided nation. It was not released in France for nearly three years. Michel Subor is a French secret agent on an assassination mission. The film's depiction of brutality and torture, used by both sides in this bloody war, infuriated both the Left and the Right. In French with English subtitles. Jean-Luc Godard---France---1960---88 mins.
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LES CARABINIERS
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One of the important early-period films from Jean-Luc Godard; a parable about the stupidity and ugliness of war. The story revolves around two gullible peasants who set out to fight for their king in exchange for "all the treasures in the world." "...Godard's achievement was to create a powerful anti-war, anti-imperialist statement, using Brechtian distancing techniques, and literary devices" (The Faber Companion to Foreign Films). In French Jean-Luc Godard---France---1963---80 mins.
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