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Forever
Godard
Thurdays,
September 18 - October 30, 1997
The
Forever Godard series was sponsored by Boston Sidewalk.
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 Thursday,
September 18, 1997
New
35mm Print!
Breathless
at 4:15, 7:45
(1959)
dir Jean-Luc Godard w/Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo
THE
groundbreaking film, of the French New Wave, Godard's exuberantly
inventive film is a grand romantic essay on cultural conjugality,
movie gangsterism and the risk of living on the edge.
New
35mm Print!
My Life to Live
at 6:00, 9:30
(1963) dir Godard w/Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot
Anna
Karina plays a woman who turns to prostitution to make ends
meet.
"One
of the most extraordinary, beautiful, original works of art
I know."
- Susan Sontag
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Thursday,
September 25,
1997
Alphaville
at 3:45, 7:40
(1965) dir Godard w/Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina
Shot
on location at night in Paris, Godard's inspired sci-fi tells
of a private eye sent across space to rescue a scientist.
Anna Karina is the most radiant of robots.
Band
of Outsiders
at 5:40, 9:30
(1964) dir Godard w/Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Clause Brasseur
A
reverie on the gangster movie, Godard's trio of daydreamers
imagine crime and violence as it would be in a Rimbaud poem,
a Kafka novel, or Alice in Wonderland.
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Thursday,
October 2,
1997
New
35mm Print!
Masculine-Feminine
at 7:45, 9:45
(1966) dir Godard w/Jean-Pierre Leaud, Chantal Goya, Marlene
Jobert
An
engaging mix of sex, politics, comedy and nostalgia, this
is the story of a journalist who falls for an aspiring rock
star in 1960's Paris.
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Thursday,
October 9,
1997
Pierrot
Le Fou
at 3:45, 7:30
(1965) dir Godard w/Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Sam Fuller
Belmondo
helps his old flame Karina search for her missing brother.
Godard himself said about this film that he "wanted to
tell the story of the last romantic couple." Watching
PIERROT LE FOU now is "like visiting another planet.
It's an explosion of color, sound, music, passion, violence
and wit that illustrates what used to be regarded as cinema."
- The Chicago Reader
A Woman is a Woman
at 5:50, 9:30
(1960) dir Godard w/Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina
An
inspired valentine to cinema and his new love, Anna Karina,
Godard's film is an homage to and a deconstruction of the
Hollywood musical.
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Thursday,
October 16,
1997
New
35mm Print!
Weekend
at 4:30, 7:50
(1967) dir Godard w/Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
An
anguished outcry against life's violence and man's cruelty,
in this landmark film, society's ills take the shape of a
nightmarish weekend traffic jam - an apocalyptic vision of
a world self- destructing in a cannibalistic mayhem.
JLG
By JLG
at 6:30, 9:50
(1994) dir Jean-Luc Godard w/Godard
Jean-Luc
Godard stars in this film as a fictional character of his
own creation. JLG muses about his home in Rolle, Switzerland
in the dead of winter. He suffers the rude interruption of
critics and the cheeky services of a pretty maid while contemplating
the end of western culture, cinema and himself. A busy day
... but still with time for tragedy, tennis and television.
"Radiant,
cranky, tender, poignant, voluptuous, revelatory. Best Film
of 1995." - Amy Taubin, the Village Voice
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Thursday,
October 23,
1997
New 35mm
Print!
Every Man For Himself
at 7:45, 9:30
(1980)
dir Godard w/Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, Jacques Dutronc
A TV director, his girlfriend, and a young prostitute's lives
occasionally intersect. Godard's '80s "come-back"
film is constructed like a piece of music: an arrangement
of rhythms, motifs, sounds, and images infused with perverse
wit, cool eroticism and startling beauty.
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Thursday,
October 30,
1997
Hail
Mary
at 7:45, 9:45
(1985) dir Godard w/ Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode
The release
of HAIL MARY demonstrated that Godard had lost none of his
ability to effectively challenge dogma and generate controversy.
This surprisingly serene, sensitive and lyrical work translates
the Virgin Birth into tangible, contemporary terms. Mary is
a basketball-playing gas-station attendant who receives the
Annunciation by jetliner. A richly paradoxical, comic- cosmic
meditation on the sacred and the profane, the exalted and
the prosaic, and the spirit and the flesh.
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