By Mike Wilmington Wilmington@moviecitynews.com
Wilmington on DVDs: Band of Outsiders (Bande à part)
BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Bande a Part) (Blu-ray and DVD) (Four Stars)
France: Jean-Luc Godard, 1964 (Criterion Collection)
BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Bande a Part) (Blu-ray and DVD) (Four Stars)
France: Jean-Luc Godard, 1964 (Criterion Collection)
BANDE A PART
Par Jean-Luc
Godard.
Bande a Part
(Band of Outsiders.)
Avec
Anna Karina
As Odile Monod
Avec
Claude Brasseur
As Arthur Rimbaud.
Avec
Sami Frey
As Franz Kafka.
Avec
Daniele Girard
As The English Teacher.
Based on Dolores Hitchens’ “Fool’s Fold.”
Un Film de
Nouvelle Vague
New Wave
Monogram
Gaumont
Avec
Pulp.
Poetry.
Politics (Peut-etre).
Two Guys, A Girl and a Gun.
Robbery
Murder
Abduction.
Betrayal
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Playing at Being Outlaws and Artists
The Gray Suburbs
A House by the River
A Car with the Top Down
An English Lesson
Love and Death and Coffee and Cigarettes
The Race through the Louvre
Locked in the Closet
The Big Heist
Showdown
Escape
Inspiree par:
Design for Living.
They Live By Night.
The Naked Kiss.
The Big Sleep.
Strangers on a Train
Detour.
Shadows.
Give a Girl a Break
I Soliti Ignoti
Voyage en Italie.
A Bout de Souffle
Bob le Flambeur
Du Rififi Chez les Hommes
Et Avec
J. L. Godard
As The Narrator
As Nicholas Ray
As John Cassavetes.
As Donald Siegel.
As Samuel Fuller
As Raoul Walsh
As Jerry Lewis
As Jean-Pierre Melville
Band of Outsiders:
David Goodis.
Jim Thompson.
Horace McCoy.
Dashiell Hammett
William Faulkner
Raymond Queneau
Paul Eluard
Andre Breton
Karl Marx
Original Music by
Michel Legrand
Of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
With a Special Performance of The Madison by Brasseur, Karina and Frey
Choreographed by Bob Fosse
Photographed
In Glorious
Black and White
By Raoul Coutard
And with the special appearances of
Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance
The Immigrants
Cinephiles of the world, arise.
You have nothing to lose but your chains..
Henri Langlois and S. M. Eisenstein
Bande a Part was directed, written and produced by Jean-Luc Godard, the auteur of Breathless, Une Femme est une Femme, Le Nouveau Monde, Laziness, Vivre sa vie, Les Carabiniers, Contempt, Le Petit Soldat, Le Grand Escroc and Une Femme marié.
This film is dedicated to Mon Bon Petit Frere, François Truffaut
And to Tirez sur le Pianiste.
And to Les Cahiers du Cinema,
And to Claude, Jacques and Eric
The Hitchcocko-Hawksians.
And to Papa Andre Bazin
Tirez sur le Cineaste!
Avec Gratitude to the Louvre Museum and Andre Malraux
And to Anna.
(In French, with English subtitles.)
Extras: Visual Glossary or references and quotations in the film — Interviews with Raoul Coutard and Anna Karina — Excerpts from documentary Le Nouvelle Vague par Elle-meme, with Godard — Short film Les Fiancés du Pont MacDonald (France: Agnes Varda, 1961) (Three Stars) With Godard and Karina — Trailers — Booklet with essay by Joshua Clover, Press book character descriptions by Godard, and a 1964 Interview with Godard.
Best and wittiest review I’ve ever read of this great movie. Thanks, Mike!