Film Screening of "Breathless" Jean-Luc Godard's Innovative film Thursday, July 26, 2018

Film Screening of "Breathless" Jean-Luc Godard's Innovative film

Thursday, July 26, 2018

2:00pm-3:27pm
and
7:00pm-8:27pm

On Thursday, July 26, Heritage House Arts & Civic Center will screen Breathless. 

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard released in France in 1960. 

 The screenings will be at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. 

in our air conditioned studio, 

with free popcorn :)

-Ty Burr- of the Boston Globe said "Breathless was; 

"The movie (that) liberated the cinema -- the stories you could tell and the ways you could tell them -- as clearly and cleanly as Picasso freed painting and the Sex Pistols rebooted rock."

 Jean-Luc Godard exploded onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres (esp. film noir) that had so inspired him as a writer for the French film journal, Cahiers du cinéma. 

 Renowned for its innovative jump cuts, blustery bravado, and an anything-goes crime narrative, this influential film starred the effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg as lovers on the lam who team up in a desperate bid to escape to Italy. 

 Most importantly, Breathless launched (along with Truffaut's The 400 Blows) the French New Wave - a movement that had an enormous effect on filmmakers worldwide, but especially here in America. Editor Anne V. Coates, when cutting "Lawrence of Arabia" has confessed to changing the film's entire edit strategy upon seeing Breathless. 

 In the process, Breathless ensured that cinema would never be the same.
 

 97% 'Fresh' on Rotten Tomatoes
 

 Air conditioned, free popcorn :)

Heritage House Arts & Civic Center
1428 Jenkins Road
Chattanooga, TN 37421

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