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Sep 15, 2022 · In it, Jean-Paul Belmondo (who was not yet a star), and Jean Seberg (who was), are two lovers on the run from the police on the streets of Paris, seeking money to escape the city. It was...
Jean-Luc Godard’s most effervescent escapade, a primary-coloured lovers-on-the-run blow-out heading south with Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Aug 29, 2015 · It’s 50 years since the world first clapped eyes on Jean-Luc Godard’s eye-popping masterpiece Pierrot le fou. The 1965 Venice Film Festival gave the film world its first look at pictures including Luchino Visconti’s Sandra, Luis Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert and Akira Kurosawa’s Red Beard.
- You Only Live Once. The second American film from the great German director Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis), this richly atmospheric 1937 noir concerns an ex-con imprisoned for a bank robbery bloodbath he didn’t commit; he escapes from prison and makes a run for Canada, with his pregnant wife in tow.
- Gun Crazy. This 1950 noir from director Joseph H. Lewis is a lean, mean, low-budget wonder, with John Dall and Peggy Cummins as a pair of hard cases who go on a cross-country crime spree, seemingly for the sheer erotic charge of it.
- Pierrot le Fou. In the early years of his revolutionary filmography, Jean-Luc Godard was consumed with digesting and reinterpreting the tropes of Hollywood’s genre films, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he took a crack at the “lovers on the run” theme.
- Bonnie and Clyde. The definitive American lovers on the run movie, its ethos (and that of the entire form, really) summed up by its iconic tagline: “They’re Young.
“I wanted to tell the story of the last romantic couple,” Jean-Luc Godard said of this brilliant, all-over-the-place adventure and meditation about two lovers on the run (Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina).
Aug 6, 2015 · Director: Jean-Luc Godard Pierrot le fou (1965) Jean-Luc Godard presides over barely-contained cinematic anarchy in Pierrot le fou, a sort-of road movie, sort-of musical – and a definite homage to classical Hollywood, featuring cameos from the likes of pulp director Sam Fuller.
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Sep 13, 2022 · The Swiss-born filmmaker stripped cinema down to its essence — all you need to tell a story on film is “a girl and a gun” he famously said — with a run-and-gun guerrilla style that eventually...
