“Contempt” remains as peculiar, sullen and gorgeous a film today as when Jean-Luc Godard had the profoundly conflicted experience of making it 60 years ago. The new 4k digital restoration, courtesy of ...
“Contempt” is based on Alberto Moravia’s 1954 novel about a man whose wife begins to despise him, but it echoes with allusions, quotations and references to its own making. It opens with Godard’s ...
That Jean-Luc Godard was at the peak of his powers in 1963-64 is gloriously borne out in these two Criterion titles. While "Contempt" and "Band of Outsiders" are both steeped in the director's ...