First Name Carmen
(1983) [R]

First Name: Carmen is a 1983 film by Jean-Luc Godard. It is very loosely based on Bizet's opera Carmen. The protagonist is Carmen X (Maruschka Detmers), a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director (played by Jean-Luc Godard himself) if she can borrow...  More

Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier)
(1963) [M]

Godard, who once said, " All you need for a movie is fun and a girl," is one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th Century, and introduced many techniques that have improvised dialogue. Asked by a fellow filmmaker if he would at least admit that a film should have a beginning, middle and...  More

Alphaville (Alphaville, une etrange aventure de Lemmy Caution)
(1965) [M]

Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), a hero Godard borrowed from a series of French adventure films, comes to Alphaville, the capital of a totalitarian state, in order to destroy its leader, an almost-human computer called Alpha 60. While on his mission, Lemmy meets and falls in love with Natacha...  More

Contempt (Le Mepris) (2 disc set)
(1963) [PG]

Jean-Luc Godard's subversive foray into commercial filmmaking is a star-studded Cinemascope epic. Contempt (Le M pris) stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European director (played by legendary director Fritz Lang), a crude and arrogant American producer...  More

The Joy of Learning (Le Gai Savoir)
(1969) [M]

Patricia and Emile meet nightly on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris' 1968 student riots, the Vietnam War, and other big events of the late '60s, posters, books, photographs and cartoons, serve as a backdrop to their discourse. Words...  More

Une femme mariée
(1964) [M]

Charlotte is young and modern, not a hair out of place, superficial, cool; she reads fashion magazines - does she have the perfect bust? She lives in a Paris suburb with her son and her husband Pierre, a pilot. Her lover is Robert, an actor. Assignations with him, dinner with her husband and a...  More