Special Presentations
Breathless (1960)
It is no exaggeration to say the late Jean-Luc Godard did nothing less than reinvent cinema when he burst onto the scene with 1960's Breathless, his jazzy tribute to American B movies. As film critic J. Hoberman put it: “there’s Potemkin, Citizen Kane, and this…Godard's first film.” The tale of an American student who falls for a small-time Parisian thief, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave with its freeform innovations and revolutionary jump-cuts, remaining among cinema's most influential films 65 years later.
An introduction by SCAD professor of film and television Michael Chaney will precede the film. Explore the making of this classic film at a screening of Richard Linklater’s reverential and effervescent new film, Nouvelle Vague.
Presented In French with English subtitles.
DIRECTOR
Jean-Luc Godard
PRODUCER
Georges de Beauregard
WRITER
Jean-Luc Godard
CAST
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean Seberg
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Jean-Luc Godard’s career spanned over half a century, with the one constant in his work being that each new movie is primarily a study of form in relation to an idea. Born 1930 and raised in Switzerland, Godard studied ethnology but reportedly spent more time in movie theaters than in class. He began to write about the films he saw in Cahiers du Cinema and formed alliances with artists who would become the nucleus of the French New Wave.