Breathless (A Bout de Souffle)
(1959) [PG]

Landmark French movie that turns the tragi-comic story of a minor crim (Belmondo), obsessed with both Bogart and an aspiring American journo (Seberg), into a major masterpiece of fickle hedonism. Crafted with elusive spontaneity, Godard's nervy style still looks as good as ever.  More

Contempt (Le Mepris)
(1963) [PG]

An intriguing sensual film set in Rome's glamorous film colony. On Capri, an Italian crew makes a German film of Homer's Odyssey; Fritz Lang directs with American money. Prokosch, the producer, with his sneer and red Alfa, holds art films in contempt and hires writer Javal to help Lang...  More

Weekend
(1967) [R]

French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Le Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central character, an "average" woman who is systematically radicalized during a...  More

Six In Paris (Paris Vu Par)
(1964) [PG]

Six of France's finest directors took to the streets of Paris with scripts of their own devising, with each story conjuring up essential images of Paris in the 1960's. Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet),...  More

Masculin Feminin
(1966) [MA]

Told in fiteen vignettes, Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Feminin is a candid and wildy funny free-form examinaiton of youth culture in throbbing 1960s Paris. Mixing satire and tragedy as only he can, Godard charts the relationship between would-be intellectual Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and aspiring...  More

Sympathy For The Devil (One Plus One)
(1968) [MA]

Godard's documentation of late 1960's western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of the media, the mediated image, A growing technocratic society, Womens Liberation, the May revolt in France...  More

Aria
(1987) [M]

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria.  More

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Deux Ou Trois Choses Que Je Sais D'elle)
(1967) [M]

In this film, 'Her' refers to both Paris, the character of Juliette Janson and the actress playing her, Marina Vlady. The film is a kind of dramatised documentary, illustrating and exaggerating the emotionless lives of characters in the new Paris of the 60s, where commercialism mocks families...  More

Passion
(1982) [M]

On a movie set, in a factory, and at a hotel, Godard explores the nature of work, love and film making. While Solidarity takes on the Polish government, a Polish film director, Jerzy, is stuck in France making a film for TV. He's over budget and uninspired; the film, called "Passion," seems...  More

Slow Motion
(1980) [M]

Jean-Luc Godard's superbly acted and inventive parody of modern life revolves around three characters who are all at turning points in their lives. The all-star cast features Isabelle Huppert as a country girl who comes to the city to become a prostitute; Nathalie Baye as a woman who decides to...  More