Histoire(s) Du Cinema

France 1988-1998, 265 minutes
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
In French with English subtitles
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Documentary / Film History

Topics: Experimental.

Aroview: Grizzly bastion of art cinema and all things French, Jean-Luc Godard, delivers a personal visual essay on the state of the medium. His 8-part chronicle of the history of cinema is typically oblique from his late experimental period, yet essential viewing for anyone spellbound by the layers and meaning of the cinematic text and image.

Disc 1 (92m.): "Every Story", "History Alone".
Disc 2 (109m.): "Only the Cinema", "Fatal Beauty", "Currency of the Absolute", "A New Wave".
Disc 3: (64m.): "The Control of the Universe", "The Signs Among Us".