Film Directors Mediagraphy - Jean-Luc Godard
updated (10/00)

2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle [videorecording] = [2 or 3 things I know about her] / Anouchka Films ; Argos-Films ; Parc Film ; Les Films du Carrosse ; a New Yorker Film release. Two or three things I know about her 2 or 3 things I know about her Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle. New York, N.Y. : New Yorker Video, c1996. The Godard collection. 1 videocassette (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Goddard satirizes society's 1960s transformations and celebrates the cinema's power to challenge, enrich, and condemn. Juliette, a bourgeois housewife, is a loving wife and mother whose domestic moments alternate with her days and nights as a call girl. VHS 4645

Alphaville [videorecording] : une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution = Alphaville : the strange adventure of Lemmy Caution / Chaumiane Productions Film Studio ; Athos Films ; Filmstudio. trange aventure de Lemmy Caution Alphaville, the strange adventure of Lemmy Caution Strange adventure of Lemmy Caution . [Chico, Calif. : Tamarelle's French Film House, [198-?]]. 1 videocassette (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. In this exciting blend of crime thriller and sci-fi drama, tough American secret agent Lemmy Caution is sent in 1984 from Earth across the galaxy to Alphaville to destroy Alpha 60, the supercomputer that runs Alphaville. Alphaville is a dictatorial state governed by a totalitarian system in which the individual counts for almost nothing, and an alienated society has no use for art, poetry, love, or even thought. People are reduced essentially to the level of robots. VHS 209 and DVD 136

Aria [videorecording] / Lightyear Entertainment and Virgin Vision. [S.l.] . c1988. 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Ten of the world's best-known film makers were given a free hand to make a short-film version of an operatic aria without necessarily following the aria's story line (for example, Rigoletto interpreted as a sex farce). The result is a succession of segments representing a variety of film-making styles. VHS 1934

A bout de souffle [videorecording] = Breathless / [directed by] Jean Luc Godard ; produced by Films Georges de Beauregard for Impéria Films, and Société Nouvelle de Cinéma. Breathless. Minneapolis, Minn. : Festival Films, [1981?]. 1 videocassette (ca. 87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. One of the germinal films of the French New Wave. This gangster-chase story with existential overtones is notable for director Jean-Luc Godard's innovative technique and use of improvisation. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays the Bogart-like young car thief and Jean Seberg the American girl, an expatriate American newspaper street vendor, who betrays him in a moment of pique. VHS 43

Early auteur films [videorecording] : the first shorts made by famous directors. First shorts made by famous directors. [United States] : Festival Films, [198-?]. 1 videocassette (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. A collection of short films made early in the careers of Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Roman Polanski, Michelangelo Antonioni and Alberto Cavalcanti. All the boys...: College roommates become acquainted with Patrick on the same day in separate encounters. Each falls for his line and agrees to a later date with him. They do not realize they have dates with the same Patrick until later, when they see him with another girl -- Two men and a wardrobe: A fantasy-parable without commentary about the cost of private lives in the modern world, as portrayed in the adventures of two men who emerge from the sea with a dilapidated old-fashioned wardrobe -- Les Mistons: Focuses on the fantasies and exploits of five adolescent boys awakening to adult emotions who follow and torment two lovers. The hearts of the age: Made by Welles at the age of 19, intended as a parody of the surrealist movement. Welles appears as the figure of death -- Rien que les heures: An impressionistic study of Paris and its inhabitants -- The fat and the lean: A pantomised parable which satirizes man's desire to dominate other men -- N.U.: Nettezza urbana: Documents one aspect of city life that is often taken for granted as it shows street cleaners in Rome as they go about their daily work. VHS. Godard, Jean Luc, 1930- Polanski, Roman. Truffaut, François. Welles, Orson, 1915- Cavalcanti, Alberto. Antonioni, Michelangelo. VHS 5222

Je vous salue, Marie [videorecording] = Hail Mary / Pegase ; JLG ; Gaumont International ; Channel Four Films ; Sara Film ; SSR. Hail Mary. Stamford, CT. c1986. 1 videocassette (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Je vous salue, Marie: A teenage virgin who plays on a basketball team becomes pregnant. The girl, her fiancé, family and friends struggle to cope. Le livre de Marie: Story of a young girl who must learn to cope when her parents separate. VHS 2686

JLG/JLG [videorecording] / Gaumont International. JLG/JLG - autoportrait de decembre Autoportrait de decembre JLG/JLG - self-portrait in December Self-portrait in December. Sykesville, Md. c1996. 1 videocassette (65 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. "Godard stars as a fictional character of his own creation, musing about in his actual 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 his own mortality. A busy day...but still with time for tragedy, tennis and television." VHS 4640

King Lear [videorecording] / Cannon Films. [Los Angeles, Calif.?] . CA : distributed by Xenon Entertainment, [1992], c1987. 1 videocassette (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Set at an exotic European resort, film features a vast array of characters whose bizarre personalities and troubled lives bear an eerie resemblance to the delirium of Shakespeare's classic. William Shakespeare Jr., the Fifth struggles to reinterpret his ancestor's tragic tale of passion and madness. In the process, he finds himself under the influence of Don Learo, an aging mobster and his daughter. VHS 2798

Masculin, féminin [videorecording] / Anouchka Films ; Argos Films ; Sandrews ; Svensk Filmindustri (SF). Masculine-Feminine Masculine Feminine. New York, N.Y. 1991. 1 videocassette (ca. 103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. Film, done in disjointed vignettes, mixes politics, romance and comedy as it examines youth mores in 1960s Paris. Paul, a young French Marxist, becomes an interrogator for a public opinion poll concerned with the attitudes and opinions of the country's youth. He moves in with Madeleine, a slightly promiscuous would-be rock star, and her roommates and becomes involved in their relationship. Explores the reactions of youth to violence, political protest, suicide, birth control and other issues prevalent during the Vietnam era. VHS 4369

Pierrot le fou [videorecording] / Rome Paris Films ; Sociéte nouvelle de cinematographie (SNC) ; De Laurentiis ; Dino de Laurentiis Cenematografica. Pierrot goes wild. New York . 1989. 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Leaving his rich wife and their child behind, a man runs off on a wild adventure with the beautiful babysitter Marianne who is fleeing gangsters. As they become entangled with murder and the gangsters, mysterious events destroy their happiness and lead to an explosive finale. Part love story, part gangster thriller, this film (shot on location in the south of France) combines romance, adventure, and violence with allusions to art, literature and cinema to create a colorful French version of "Bonnie and Clyde." VHS 4380 and DVD 118

Prénom Carmen [videorecording] = First name Carmen / Sara Films, Jean-Luc Godard Films, Films A2. First name Carmen. Los Angeles . 1995. 1 videocassette (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. The Carmen story of passion, jealousy and betrayal reworked into a comic strip version in modern day France. Carmen belongs to a gang of terrorists who are plotting a kidnaping. Her lover, Joseph, a young security guard whom she seduces during a bank hold-up, becomes unwittingly involved. The gang plan to use the making of a film by Carmen's director uncle as a cover for a kidnaping. VHS; Hi-Fi. Godard, Jean Luc, 1930- Sarde, Alain, 1952- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Waits, Tom, 1949- Merimee, Prosper, 1803-1870. Carmen. Mieville, Anne-Marie. Detmers, Maruschka. Bonnaffé, Jacques. Roussel, Myriem. Odent, Christophe. Sara Films. Jean-Luc Godard Films. Films A2 (Firm). VHS 4295 and DVD119

Une Femme est une femme [videorecording] = A woman is a woman / Rome Paris Films. Woman is a woman. New York . c1998. 1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. When the beautiful Angéla wants to have a baby and her lover refuses to participate, she looks to recruit his best friend. DVD 67

Vivre sa vie [videorecording] : film en douze tableaux = My life to live : a film in twelve episodes / Films de la Pléiade ; Pathé Cinéma. My life to live It's my life. New York . c1997. 1 videocassette (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. Tells the story of Nana (Karina), a young mother who leaves her family behind to pursue an acting career, but instead slips into a life of prostitution on the streets of Paris. VHS 4517 and DVD 116

Week end [videorecording] / Comacico ; les Films Copernic ; Lira Films ; Ascot Cineraid. Week end. New York : New Yorker Video, 1991. The Godard Collection. 1 videocassette (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. A middle class couple on a weekend trip get caught up in traffic jams, car wrecks and an armed liberation struggle. A sarcastic portrait of France in 1967. VHS 1430