My Life ti Live

Genres: Drama

Starring: Sady Rebbot, Anna Karina, Gilles Quéant, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Gérard Hoffman, Monique Messine

Directors: Jean-Luc Godard

Country: France

Year: 1962

Available Quality: Hi Def

This film explores a Parisian woman's descent into prostitution. The movie is comprised of a series of 12 "tableaux"-- scenes which are basically unconnected episodes, each presented with a worded introduction.

Sympathy for the Devil

Genres: Documentary, Music

Starring: Roy Stewart, Danny Daniels, Iain Quarrier, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Michael McKay

Directors: Jean-Luc Godard

Country: UK

Year: 1968

Available Quality: iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

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 and the power of language. Cutting between 3 major scenes, including the Rolling Stones in the studio, the film is visually intercut with Eve Democracy (Wiazemsky) using graffiti which amalgamates organisations, corporations and ideologies. Godard also examines the role of the revolutionary within western culture. Although he believes western culture ne...

King Lear

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi

Starring: Julie Delpy, Suzanne Lanza, Burgess Meredith, Woody Allen, Molly Ringwald, Freddy Buache, Leos Carax

Directors: Jean-Luc Godard

Country: USA

Year: 1987

Everything returns to normal after Chernobyl. That is, everything but art. Most of the great works are lost, and it is up to people like William Shakespear Junior the Fifth to restore the lost artwork of the human race. He finds strange goings-on at a resort enough to remind him of all the lines of the play, dealing with mob boss Don Learo and his daughter Cordelia, a strange professor named Jean Luc-Godard (sic), who repeatedly xeroxes his hand for no particular reason. He is followed by four humanoid goblins that keep tormenting Cordelia. There is also the gentleman whose girlfriend, Valerie, isn't always visible. Then the film is sent off ...

Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution

Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama

Starring: Akim Tamiroff, Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina

Directors: Jean-Luc Godard

Country: Italy, France

Year: 1965

Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.