In the thirty-five years since its American release, Jean-Luc Godard’s lyrical gangster romance “Band of Outsiders” has been as difficult to revisit as it is impossible to forget. Starting today, the ...

Jean-Luc Godard's BAND OF OUTSIDERS (1964), starring Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Claude Brasseur,will be shown in a new restoration at Film Forum from Friday, May 6 through Thursday, May 12. Star Anna ...

Well, there’s the dance . . . the Madison. And there’s the mad sprint through the Louvre . . . nine minutes, the new record. But for me there’s no set piece in Band of Outsiders that can equal the ...

Jean-Luc Godard intended to give the public what it wanted. His next film was going to be about a girl and a gun—”A sure-fire story which will sell a lot of tickets.” And so, like Henry James’ hero in ...

The Godard movie you use to turn people into Godard-heads, “Band of Outsiders” wasn’t, as it were, always liked. When it bowed in 1964, not all of the director’s fans — including certain colleagues in ...

If one must sell the restoration of a Jean-Luc Godard film and the original trailer for said film was, in fact, cut together by Godard himself, why not use it? Credit to Rialto Pictures, then, for ...

People’s memories of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 Band of Outsiders (showing in a new DCP restoration at Film Forum) tend to emphasize the obvious delights: the scene where the three young leads (Anna ...

Remember back in the 1960s and early '70s, when the process of making, watching and thinking about film seemed like a life-or-death matter? The cineastes at the Criterion Collection do, as ...

The 1964 Jean-Luc Godard film, “Band of Outsiders,” has been called "a reverie of a gangster movie" by film critic Pauline Kael and “Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka” by the director himself. The ...

In 1959, director Jean-Luc Godard saw Anna Karina in a Palmolive soap ad. She was 17, and he was casting for his film Breathless, for which he offered Karina a small part where she would have to ...