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Jul 26, 2023 · Synopsis. There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young ...
Sep 20, 2010 · Picture 8/10 To commemorate the film’s 50th anniversary, Criterion releases Jean-Luc Godard’s first feature-length film Breathless on Blu-ray, presenting the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1 in a beautiful 1080/24hz high-def transfer on a dual-layer disc. For years I suffered with Fox Lorber’s disastrous DVD edition, which featured a fuzzy, noisy image with a horrendous green tint. Criterion was finally able to release a new 2-disc DVD edition of the film, presenting a far ...
Picture 8/10 Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless gets a third release from Criterion, this time a dual-format edition. The film is presented in its original aspect ratio of about 1.33:1 and is delivered in a 1080p/24hz high-definition transfer on the dual-layer Blu-ray disc. A standard-definition version is presented on the first dual-layer DVD of the set. Unfortunately the DVD’s transfer is window boxed. Despite a redo in the packaging and new disc art the discs are exactly the same as their ...
Dec 21, 2010 · Picture 9/10 Replacing Fox Lorber’s previous (and hideous) DVD edition of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Criterion presents the film in in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on the first dual-layer disc of this two-disc set. In comparison to the old murky Fox Lorber DVD the presentation here is a revelation. The film is far sharper with better details, with film grain actually coming out looking pretty good. Contrast is also much better and the film no longer has that greenish tinge that ...
Jul 18, 2023 · There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same. Year: 1960 Time: 90 min.
Nov 13, 2017 · In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville, <I>Le samouraï</I> is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop ...
May 19, 2013 · Four years after <I>Breathless</I>, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with <I>Band of Outsiders</I> (<I>Bande à part</I>). In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home. This audacious and wildly entertaining French New Wave gem is at once sentimental and insouciant, effervescently romantic and melancholy, and it features some of Godard’s ...
Sep 14, 2010 · There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, crackling personalities of rising stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, and anything-goes crime narrative, Jean-Luc Godard's debut fashioned a simultaneous homage to and critique of the American film genres that influenced and rocked him as a film writer for Cahiers du cinema. Jazzy, free-form, and sexy, Breathless (A bout de soufflé) helped launch the French new wave and ensured ...
Nov 26, 2017 · In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology—maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece <I>Le Samouraï</I> defines cool.
Eyes Without a Face delivers a stable, exceedingly filmic look, natural looking and clean. Film grain is fine and rendered perfectly, while the picture delivers crisp lines and distinguishable finer details. Both long shots and close-ups manage to provide a staggering amount of detail. Contrast looks solid, with inky blacks that don’t crush ...
