Jean-Luc Godard
2) Breathless
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 anything-goes crime narrative about a young thief on the run and his American girlfriend.
Series
Criterion collection volume 171
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + notes.
Language
Français
Description
A screenwriter is torn between the demands of a proud European director, a crude and arrogant American producer and his disillusioned wife, Camille, as he attempts to doctor the script for a new film version of The Odyssey. It is a study of marital breakdown, artistic compromise, and the cinematic process. DVD.
Series
Criterion collection volume 174
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Français
Description
"Two restless young men enlist the object of their desire to help them commit a robbery ... in her own home"--Container.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"Initiated and edited by Chris Marker, Far from Vietnam is an epic 1967 collaboration between cinema greats Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch and Alain Resnais in protest of American military involvement in Vietnam--made, per Marker's narration, 'to affirm, by the exercise of their craft, their solidarity with the Vietnamese people in struggle against aggression.' A truly collaborative effort, the film brings together an...
Series
Criterion collection volume 308
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (13 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Paul, a young idealistic would-be intellectual, struggles to forge a relationship with incipient pop star Madeleine in 1960s Paris.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm)
Language
Français
Description
The legendary Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this provocative collage film essay, a vast ontological inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world. Displaying an encyclopedic grasp of cinema and its history, Godard pieces together fragments and clips them from some of the greatest films of the past, then digitally alters, bleaches, and washes them, all in the service of reflecting...
8) Week end
Series
Criterion collection volume 635
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and, according to...
Series
Criterion collection volume 802
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
Français
Description
The film follows a young literature student who befriends the members of a loose-knit group of twenty-somethings in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance. Suspicious of the death, she investigates to see if conspiracy was involved.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Sexy, violent, thought-provoking and funny, here is the movie critics raved about, audiences flocked to see, and no one could stop talking about. Ten of the world's most revered directors pay homage to the opera with this episodic feature.
Series
Criterion collection volume 512
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (39 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Français
Description
Follows Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress, but a downward spiral forces her into prostitution.