LE GAI SAVOIR
The Joy of knowledge

Patricia Lumumba and Emile Rousseau stumble across each other one night in an abandoned television studio. They meet for seven evenings to carry out a three-year plan to create a new cinema. In the first year, images and sounds are collected and experimented with. In the second year all that has been collected is criticized, decomposed, and recomposed to bring forth, in the third year, ideal building blocks for a new cinema. A compelling parade of sounds and images follows with Emile, Patricia and Godard (as the narrator) commenting on the film which is being created, taken apart and put together right in front of the viewer. At the end, Godard simply states "This film is not and cannot be an attempt to explain cinema nor 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." Le Gai Savoir is also noteworthy as the beginning of Godard's break from all commercial filmmaking until 1972. Le Gai Savoir is a unique film; one of the few instances in which cinema is used for pure intellectual discourse. One of Godard's finest films and also his most difficult.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard from his script. Photo by Georges Leclerc. With Jean-Pierre Leaud, Juliette Berto.

FRANCE 1968 96m, color. Subtitled.
ISBN 1-55881-517-1
$39.95

A MARRIED WOMAN
Une Femme Mariee

A Married woman carrying on an affair with a married man discovers that she is pregnant. Double trouble follows: first, she is not sure who the father is; second, she doesn't know weather or not she really loves either man. A look at modern relationships and modern problems expressed largely through Godardian montages of modern pop art images and sounds. Also noteworthy as one of the first instances where Godard used open sex as a polemic. The film’s humorous and erotic look at French womanhood drew strenuous condemnation from Charles De Gaul and praise from film critics worldwide.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Script by Jean-Luc Godard. Photo by Raoul Coutard. Music by Beethoven, Claude Nougaro. With Macha Meril, Philippe Leroy, Bernard Noel, Roger Leenhardt, Rita Maiden

France, 1964, 98minutes.

ISBN 1-55881-031-5 (French dialog, English subtitles)
$29.95

ISBN 1-55881-032-3 (English dubbed version)
$29.95

BAND OF OUTSIDERS
Bande A Part / The Outsiders

Godard transposes a traditional Hollywood style thriller to a gloomy suburb of Paris. Two men manipulate a girl into helping them burglarize a house where she works. Unfortunately, things go awry and end in murder.

“Godard’s concerns are less with the plot than with the isolation of the characters as seen lounging

in cafés, for example, or on the Métro. It makes for a touching, refreshing and illuminating film.” —Holt’s Foreign Film Guide.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Script; Jean-Luc Godard from the book Fool’s Gold by Dolores Hitchens. Photo; Raoul Coutard. Music; Michel Legrand. Cast; Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur, Luisa Colpeyn, Daniele Girard, Ernest Menzer, Chantal Darget, Michele Seghers, Claude Makovski, Georges Staquet & Michael Delahaye.

FRANCE 1964. 97m. Subtitled.

ISBN 1-55881-290-3
$29.95

VIVRE SA VIE
It's My Life / My Life To Live

In twelve episodes, Godard tells the story of a young provincial woman who drifts into prostitution and is exploited by pimps and lovers. Typical mid-sixties Godard collage. The unique near-documentary style brings forth a dazzling view of one woman's tragic experience.

Winner of a special jury prize at Venice.

"Vivre Sa Vie is one of the most beautiful, touching and original films by Godard , an extremely complex blend of social document, theatricality and interior drama in the Bresson manner."-- Georges Sadoul

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. script; Jean-Luc Godard. Photo; RaoulCoutard. Music; Michel Legrand. Cast; Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, Andri Labarthe, Brice Parain.

France, 1962 85m. Subtitled.
ISBN 1-55881-289-X
$29.95

BREATHLESS
A Bout de souffe

Michel, a young Parisian rogue, is on the run after having stolen a car and killed a policeman. Seberg is his American girlfriend in Paris. The film pictures a few days in their hectic lives as he vainly searches for a guy who owes him money and she tries to decide if she really loves him. With Breathless, Godard redefined the language of film. His brilliant transformation of the cam- era, soundtrack and editing from basic film materials to liberated artist's tools catapulted him to the forefront of the French New Wave Movement. Breathless is now viewed by many critics as a major turning point in the evolution of the cinema.

"The Modern cinema could not exist without this film" -- Amos Vogel, (Film as a Subversive Art).

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Script; Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut. Photo; RaoulCoutard. Music; Martial Solal. Cast; Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville

France, 1959, 90m. Subtitled.

ISBN 1-55881-288-1
$29.95

ALPHAVILLE
Une Étrange Aventure De Lemmy Caution

Detective Lemmy Caution cruises the neon-lit landscape of Alphaville, a future city of Gangsters, pain and suffering where individuality and love have been suppressed. Caution is after Von Braun the evil mastermind behind this new wave version of "Things to Come". Constantine is perfect as the tough but lovable gumshoe and Godard's then wife, the Danish-born Karina, is superb as Von Braun's daughter. An interesting story with some unusual visuals that work quite well to turn 1960’s Paris into a futuristic city.

Best Film Berlin 1965.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Script; Jean-Luc Godard. Photo; Raoul Cautard. Music; Paul Misraki. Cast; Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon, László Szabó.

France, 1965 100m. Subtitled.

ISBN 1-55881-291-1
$29.95

MASCULINE FEMININE
Masculin-Féminin

Paul meets Madeleine who gets him a job on the magazine where she works but he is more interested in Leftist political rallies and the two girls with whom he shares an apartment. Godard's view of the generation he called “the children of Marx and Coca Cola” and their attitudes towards politics, war, religion, birth control, & suicide. Watch for a young Brigitte Bardot in a cameo on the Métro.

Best Actor (Jean-Pierre Léaud) Berlin

1966 France 1966 104mins Subtitled.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Script; Jean-Luc Godard inspired by a story by Guy De Maupassant.. Photo; Willy Kurant. Music; Francis Lai. Cast; Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Michel Debord, Marlène Jobert, Catherine-lsabelle Duport, Eva-Britt Strandberg, Birger Malmsten, Elsa Leroy, Francoise Hardy, Chantal Darget.

ISBN: 1-55881-292-X
$29.95

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~ VIGO
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