29 Dec 2016

Jean-Luc Godard (France) Part 1: The 60s

Jean-Luc Godard is an influential French filmmaker notably associated with the Nouvelle Vague film movement (“New Wave” in English). Hi films were variously experimental, genre-deconstructing, intellectual, political and funny. He was married to actress Anna Karina, who graced many of his 1960s films with her beauty and charm.

Vivre sa vie (France, 1962) [A.K.A. My Life To Live]
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Starring: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe...

A couple of scenes where the main characters play pinball. In the first scene, Anna plays a Sea Belles (Gottlieb, 1956)...


In the second scene, Anna’s friends play a Sweet Sioux (Gottlieb, 1959). This was a 4-player game, which normally had wood side rails, but metal ones also existed, as pictured here...



Bande à part (France, 1964) [A.K.A. Band of Outsiders].
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Stars: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey...

Just a brief glimpse of a Sunset (Gottlieb, 1962) as the gang walks into a café…


Pierrot le fou (France, 1965)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina...

A very brief glimpse of two machines in a bowling alley.
The one on the left is a Sky·Line (Gottlieb, 1965), which was pretty much brand new when the film was shot.
The other we don’t see enough of to identify...



Made In U.S.A. (France, 1966)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard. Starring: Anna Karina, László Szabó, Jean-Pierre Léaud...

Godard’s last feature film with Karina… they had divorced in 1965. I don’t remember much of the plot, but it was a sort of mish-mash film noir with gangsters and politics and deconstructed.

Some of the gang Anna’s with hang out in a garage where there’s a Sea-Shore (Gottlieb, 1964)...




Bonus:
Godard’s 1965 film Alphaville (which also starred Anna Karina) inspired Jerry Kelley for the artwork for Capersville (Bally, 1966)...

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