The film’s hard-won humanism belongs only to itself.
Joseph Losey’s late-career triumph gets a solid new 4K restoration, coupled with a handful of solid extras.
Rivette’s masterpiece makes its long-overdue debut on Region 1 with an excellent A/V presentation and a bounty of superlative extras.
Now it’s easier than ever to appreciate these films as crucial stepping stones in Jean-Luc Godard’s mutable, constantly self-analyzing career.
This Blu-ray beautifully illustrates the beguiling contradictions of the funniest and most polemical film of Godard’s career.
A great A/V transfer and outstanding critic commentary make Kino’s disc an essential purchase for fans of Jean-Luc Godard.
The films in this collection have been given satisfying transfers and some eye-opening supplements.
Out 1 is largely a film of conversation, as its prolonged rehearsal vignettes regularly give way to even lengthier scenes of verbal self-analysis.
The film’s peregrinating first half-hour establishes the odd, nearly incestuous, and unspoken relationship between the two titular women.
Aside from some gray flickering in a scene or two, Raoul Coutard’s imagery bursts with color and soft-edged, subversive beauty.
The dualities that abound in Jean-Luc Godard’s film are ubiquitous at whatever starting point one chooses.
This is a more generous and inviting film that lives up to the complex implications of its now-removed subtitle.
The film is ultimately hopeful in its belief that the human comedy, whatever its fallacies and failures, is always granted continuance.
The retrospective’s Sunday screenings kick off with Rivette’s 1966 episode of Cinéastes, de notre temps, which profiles Jean Renoir.
Jacques Rivette’s masterpiece is a deceptively light-hearted confection that begins and ends (or, rather, begins again) at the entrance to a Parisian wonderland.
Jacques Rivette’s spry and intoxicating 1974 comedy observes the way women look at each other, themselves, and the world around them.