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Une Femme Mariee on TCM
My feature review of the DVD release of Jean-Luc Godard’s Une Femme Mariee is now running on Turner Classic Movies online. Une Femme Mariee Subtitled “Fragments of a film shot in 1964,” Une Femme...
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DVDs for 7/21/09 – more Watchmen, 300 plus, a pair of Godards
Rorschach - a Batman over the edgeI had my issues with Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Watchmen (see my review here), but those issues aside, this is a superhero film like nothing you’ve ever seen on the...
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Blu-rays for the Week: Lionsgate’s StudioCanal Collection and GoodFellas...
Lionsgate releases the inaugural Blu-ray releases of international classics in its “StudioCanal Collection” and it goes for the gold standard with definitive editions of Ran, Contempt and the original...
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina and “Vivre sa vie”
Vivre Sa Vie (Criterion) Jean-Luc Godard’s fourth film marked a significant new direction for young turk director, away from the impassioned sketchiness of his furiously directed first films and into...
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Two in the Wave on TCM
In 1959, critic-turned-filmmaker Francois Truffaut and 14-year-old actor Jean-Pierre Leaud became the toast of Cannes with Truffaut’s debut feature, The 400 Blows. In the next year, Truffaut and Claude...
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DVD: Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Histoire(s) du Cinema’
Early in the career of Jean-Luc Godard career, when he still the firebrand film critic aspiring to make features, Godard contemplated the “Mystery and fascination of this American cinema” and found...
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Cinema Landmark: Spending a ‘Weekend’ with Jean-Luc Godard and friends
Jean-Luc Godard’s “Weekend” (Criterion) is more than a movie. This landmark of sixties cinema is a blast across the bow of a consumer culture eating itself alive. Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne play a...
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Videophiled Classic: ‘The Killing Fields’ and two by Godard on Blu-ray
The Killing Fields (Warner, Blu-ray), the first major western film to confront the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide, stars survivor Dr. Haing S. Ngor as Cambodian national Dith...
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Blu-ray / DVD: Jacques Rivette’s ‘Paris Belongs to Us’
Paris Belongs to Us (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD), Jacques Rivette’s 1961 debut feature, makes its U.S. home video debut in a Criterion edition, which is fitting for a founding brother of the French...
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Blu-ray: Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘A Married Woman’
A Married Woman (Cohen, Blu-ray, DVD), subtitled “Fragments of a film shot in 1964,” is Jean-Luc Godard’s modern portrait of love and sex in the media-saturated sixties with Macha Méril in a role that...
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