Rent Histoire(s) du Cinema (2024)
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4h 25min
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- Synopsis:
Made over ten years at the end of cinema's first century, Jean-Luc Godard's roving, essayistic video project is a multilayered celebration of the art form's achievements, as well as a raging condemnation of its failure to respond and engage with turbulent times. Melding together film clips, newsreel footage, painting, music, as well as Godard's own narration in a transfixing collage, Histoire[sJ du cinema is a passionate cri de coeurby a cinema icon entering a galvanising late period, from which many other works are included in this release. Marked by searching introspection and bold experimentation, these film and video projects evince a creative spirit continuously engaged with the question of cinema's place in the world, and the world's place within cinema -not least in Godard's moving final film, Scenarios (2024), making here its world premiere. - Actors:
- Jean-Luc Godard, Julie Delpy, Sabine Azéma, Serge Daney, Juliette Binoche, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Cuny, Jean-Paul Battaggia, Fabrice Aragno, Freddy Buache, Anne-Marie Miéville, Brigitte Bastien, Bernard Eisenschitz, Elisabeth Kaza, André S. Labarthe, Geneviève Pasquier, Louis Seguin, Martin Scorsese, Nagisa Ōshima, Michel Piccoli
- Directors:
- Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Stig Björkman, Donald Taylor Black, Michael Dibb, Stephen Frears, Pawel Lozinski, Sam Neill, Nagisa Ōshima, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Edgar Reitz, Judy Rymer, Martin Scorsese, Jang Sun-woo, Michael Henry Wilson, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Stanley Kwan, George Miller, Sergey Selyanov, Mrinal Sen
- Producers:
- Jean-Luc Godard, Mitra Farahani, Tony Kirkhope, Nicolas Seydoux, Colin MacCabe, Bob Last, Lennart Dunér, Jacques Bidou, Donald Taylor Black, Vincent Burke, Robert Busch, Grant Campbell, Alejandro Clancy, Florence Dauman, Roberto Feith, Laura Imperiale, Paula Jalfon, Hilton Kauffmann, Krzysztof Kieślowski, George Miller
- Voiced By:
- Jorge Luís Hidalgo, Gabriel Byrne, Nagisa Ōshima
- Narrated By:
- Gabriel Byrne, Nagisa Ōshima
- Writers:
- Jean-Luc Godard, Fabrice Aragno, Jean-Paul Battaggia, Nicole Brenez, Charles Barr, Stig Björkman, Stephen Frears, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Pawel Lozinski, Sam Neill, Silvia Oroz, Nagisa Ōshima, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Edgar Reitz, Kevin Rockett, Judy Rymer, Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, George Miller
- Aka:
- Historia(s) del cine / Histoire(s) Du Cinema and Other Works
- Studio:
- Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd.
- Genres:
- Documentary, Drama, Special Interest
- Countries:
- France
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- Release Date:
- 07/09/2026
- Run Time:
- 575 minutes
- Languages:
- French Dolby Digital 5.1, French LPCM Stereo, French LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Various
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- All 8 episodes of Histoire(s) du cinema, viewable with two optional English subtitle tracks: a narration translation, and annotated subtitles by Felicity Chaplin identifying clips and images
- Lettre a Freddy Buache - commissioned for the 500th anniversary of the Swiss city of Lausanne, this film sees Godard document his own attempt to fulfil his given brief 1982,11 mins)
- Soft and Hard (Soft Talk on a Hard Subject Between Two Friends) - creative partners Mieville and Godard discuss their work while involved in everyday tasks around their home (co-directed with Anne-Marie Mieville, 1985, 51 mins)
- JLG/JLG, autoportrait de decembre -Godard's self-portrait finds the filmmaker questioning his place in cinema history and the intersection of art and commerce 1995, 56 mins)
- 2x50 Years of French Cinema - in a lakeside hotel room, Godard asks his Contempt star Michel Piccoli why cinema should be celebrated at all (co-directed with Anne-Marie Mieville, 1995, 52 mins)
- Moments choisis des histoire(s) du cinema - Godard's feature-length re-edit of Histoire(s) du cinema on 35mm film reorganises footage and includes unique material (2004, 83 mins)
- Scenarios - Godard's final film, completed the day before his self-death (2024, 18 mins)
- Expose du film annonce du film "Scenario" - Godard presents his idea for a 6-chapter feature film (2024, 36 mins)
- New introduction by Godard expert Michael Witt (2025, 9 mins)
- New interview with Michael Witt on Godard's magnum opus (2025, 26 mins)
- New interview with Godard collaborator Bernard Eisenschitz on the director's working methods (2025, 13 mins)
- Extensive archival TV interview with Godard on French programme Bouillon de culture (1993, 56 mins)
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes the following episodes:
1. Introduction by Michael Witt
2. 1A - Toutes les histoires
3. 1B - Une histoire seule
4. 2A - Seul le cinéma
5. 2B - Fatale beauté
6. 3A - La monnaie de l'absolu
7. 3B - Une vague nouvelle
8. 4A - Le contrôle de l'univers
9. 4B - Les signes parmi nous
- Special Features - Disc 2:
- This disc includes the following episodes:
- Scénarios
- Special Features - Disc 3:
- This disc includes the following episodes:
11. Lettre à Freddy Buache
12. Soft and Hard
13. JLG/JLG, autoportrait de décembre
14. 2x50 Years of French Cinema
15. Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
- Special Features
