- Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Louis Richard, Raymond Huntley
- Directors: Jean-Luc Godard
- Producers: Jean-Luc Godard - The Ultimate Collection - 14-DVD Box Set ( À bout de souffle , Une femme est une f, Jean-Luc Godard - The Ultimate Collection - 14-DVD Box Set, À bout de souffle , Une femme est une femme
- Format: PAL
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 14
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Optimum Home Releasing
- DVD Release Date: 14 July 2008
- Run Time: 1304 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0019GJ40G
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 17,886 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Product details |
Reviews
DVD Description
Cinema’s original enfant terrible, one of the leaders of the French New Wave, a key influence on the American cinema of the 1970s and one of the few true auteurs still making movies: Jean-Luc Godard is all of these and more. A maverick force from the beginning, when his debut film A Bout de Souffle (1959) tore up the cinematic rulebook, Godard has continued to inspire and challenge moviegoers throughout a career that spans more than four decades.
Born in Paris in 1930, Godard came from a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family, where he attended school until his parents divorced in 1948 and he moved to Paris. A contemporary of Francois Truffaut, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Godard first became involved in cinema through literary criticism, writing several articles under the pseudonym Hans Lucas. After supplying funding to films by Rivette and Rohmer, with whom he had also founded a ‘Gazette du Cinema’ for their writing, Godard’s family withdrew their financial support, and he took to living a Bohemian lifestyle, often stealing food and money when necessary. After becoming a scriptwriter and having made several short films, Godard made his memorable directorial debut in 1959 with A Bout de Souffle, cementing his reputation (earned from his articles and screenplays) as being at the forefront of La Nouvelle Vague.
Product Description
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), French ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN, SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Box Set, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Documentary, Featurette, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access, Short Film, SYNOPSIS: Le Mepris: Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia, LE MEPRIS stars Brigitte Bardot and Fritz Lang. An ambitious young writer gets a job reworking a film script, but finds his as his career progressed his marriage begins to collapse.
Alphaville: A strangely beautiful futuristic tale, this is the story of Lemmy Caution, an American private eye sent to a planet ruled by Von Braun, a malevolent scientist who has outlawed human emotion.
Passion: A fascinating musing on the nature of life, love and art, through the eyes of disorientated Polish filmmaker Jerzy and his partner Laszlo. With no script to speak of, Jerzy hopes to live the narrative of his film as he makes it, to the displeasure of his more conventional financiers.
A Bout De Souffle: Sexy, Stylish and cool, this is the epitome of cinematic cool. A fast tale of a young man on the run in Paris at the end of the 1950's, this film saw Jean-Paul Belmondo exploding onto the scene in an iconic, career defining role, in a film which shook the cinematic world upon release.
Made In USA: A classic New Wave crime thriller inspired by the American Noir thrillers of earlier decades, this film star Anna Karina as the questing anti-hero in search for the killer of her lover.
Pierrot Le Fou: Tired of his bourgeois life, Fedinand Griffon [Belmondo] leaves his wife to elope with his former babysitter Marianne ...Jean-Luc Godard - The Ultimate Collection - 14-DVD Box Set ( À bout de souffle / Une femme est une femme / Le Mépris / Le Petit soldat / Alphaville / Pierrot le fou / Made in U.S.A. / La Chinoise / Passion / Détective / Hélas pour moi / Élo
Alphaville: A strangely beautiful futuristic tale, this is the story of Lemmy Caution, an American private eye sent to a planet ruled by Von Braun, a malevolent scientist who has outlawed human emotion.
Passion: A fascinating musing on the nature of life, love and art, through the eyes of disorientated Polish filmmaker Jerzy and his partner Laszlo. With no script to speak of, Jerzy hopes to live the narrative of his film as he makes it, to the displeasure of his more conventional financiers.
A Bout De Souffle: Sexy, Stylish and cool, this is the epitome of cinematic cool. A fast tale of a young man on the run in Paris at the end of the 1950's, this film saw Jean-Paul Belmondo exploding onto the scene in an iconic, career defining role, in a film which shook the cinematic world upon release.
Made In USA: A classic New Wave crime thriller inspired by the American Noir thrillers of earlier decades, this film star Anna Karina as the questing anti-hero in search for the killer of her lover.
Pierrot Le Fou: Tired of his bourgeois life, Fedinand Griffon [Belmondo] leaves his wife to elope with his former babysitter Marianne ...Jean-Luc Godard - The Ultimate Collection - 14-DVD Box Set ( À bout de souffle / Une femme est une femme / Le Mépris / Le Petit soldat / Alphaville / Pierrot le fou / Made in U.S.A. / La Chinoise / Passion / Détective / Hélas pour moi / Élo
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
92 of 95 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Still Revolutionary After All These Years,
By countvoncampbell (Merseyside) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ultimate Godard Collection [DVD] (DVD)
Jean-Luc Godard is, for me, one of the greatest and most important filmmakers of all time! He is alongside Bergman, Hitchcock and Welles in both his genius and importance... and this boxset almost, I stress the word almost, does the great man justice.
But before the problems, the plus points... You have a couple of the great man's masterpieces included here; Breathless, Le Mepris, Alpaville, Pierrot Le Fou, and if you have never seen a Godard film the fee is worth it for those films alone! You really cannot fault anything greatly that contains the films on offer here. If you just take this set at face value with what is included then yes, its a great set. They are also very well preseneted, each coming individually in beautiful packaging. The box itself is also very satisfactory, and rightly so. Here's my gripe, however. To call this boxset "The Ultimate Collection" really is not quite right. For me, its about fifteen films short of being The Ultimate Collection! Some very obvious films are missing, for example: Vivre Sa Vie, Bande a Parte, 2 ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais d'elle and a few more. Whatever the reasons behind the absence of such brilliant and obvious Godard films, this is where the set is really let down. To call something a collection suggests that everything is there! And to be quite fair, everything is not there, far from it in fact! The one saving grace is that films not included here are available in the UK, and it is also worth checking out the American Criterion editions which are superb!
4 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
prompt service at discount prices,
By
This review is from: Ultimate Godard Collection [DVD] (DVD)
My son had been looking for this for ages, so made a fab xmas suprise and i didnt have to break the bank.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
