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Weekend
(1967) [R]

French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard's Le Weekend remains his most consistently relentless attack on the bourgeois values of his own country and the perceived imperialism of the United States. Mireille Darc plays the central character, an "average" woman who is systematically radicalized during a...  More

Six In Paris (Paris Vu Par)
(1964) [PG]

Six of France's finest directors took to the streets of Paris with scripts of their own devising, with each story conjuring up essential images of Paris in the 1960's. Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet),...  More

Masculin Feminin
(1966) [MA]

Told in fiteen vignettes, Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Feminin is a candid and wildy funny free-form examinaiton of youth culture in throbbing 1960s Paris. Mixing satire and tragedy as only he can, Godard charts the relationship between would-be intellectual Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and aspiring...  More

Sympathy For The Devil (One Plus One)
(1968) [MA]

Godard's documentation of late 1960's western counter-culture, examining the Black Panthers, referring to works by LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. Other notable subjects are the role of the media, the mediated image, A growing technocratic society, Womens Liberation, the May revolt in France...  More

Shoot the Piano Player
(1959) [PG]

Francois Truffaut's second feature is the tender but tragic story of a man embroiled in past betrayals. Charlie, a once-renowned concert pianist, is unable to forgive or forget his former wife’s infidelity and now plays background music in a run-down bar. Having rejected the love of a waitress,...  More

Day For Night
(1973) [PG]

An affectionate look at the making of a film, and the off-screen relationships of all the actors involved. Francois Truffaut's admiration for movies was legendary but nowhere is this obsession more evident than in this movie. He was at the peak of his skill here. Day For Night is one of his two...  More

The Last Metro
(1981) [PG]

Winning an incredible ten French Academy Awards in 1981, The Last Metro is one of Truffaut's most highly acclaimed and popular films. Starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in magnetic performances, the story is set in Paris, 1942, during the Nazi occupation of France. When Lucas Steiner...  More

The Passenger
(1975) [M]

The mutual admiration between actor Jack Nicholson and director Michelangelo Antonioni resulted in the compelling psychological drama The Passenger. Nicholson, in one of his finest performances, plays David Locke, a disillusioned American reporter who is sent on a grueling mission to North...  More

Dead Ringers
(1988) [M]

The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing....  More

Dekalog: Parts 1-5 (2 Disc Set)
(1988) [M]

Parts one to five of a ten part series made for Polish television. Each programme focuses on the inhabitants of an apartment block and the ethical dilemmas that they face each day. Dekalog, from the acclaimed director of the Three Colours trilogy, was premiered at the 1989 Venice Film Festival,...  More