Contempt

The late, revolutionary Jean-Luc Godard has a filmography that is one of the most monumental in in cinema's history, and this screening pairs his final works with the classic Contempt. The film, which Slate called "the coolest movie of all time," stars Brigitte Bardot as a woman unhappily married to a screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) who is caught between a great director (Fritz Lang, playing himself) and a vulgar American producer (Jack Palance) intent on completing a film version of The Odyssey. Contempt is famous for its dazzling use of color and the widescreen CinemaScope frame, and the score by Georges Delerue remains as iconic as the film itself. (103 mins., DCP)

Two years after his death, Godard's two final short films have been released. Scénarios collages paintings, film clips, and narration, movingly read on-screen by Godard the day before his assisted death. (17 mins., DCP) In the longer companion film, Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario”, Godard outlines a previous version of the project giving a glimpse of both a feature film never to be made and of his still agile mind at work. (35 mins., DCP)

See the complete Jean-Luc Godard: Now and Then lineup.

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Contempt, courtesy Rialto Pictures.