French New Wave Film: 1960s’ “Breathless” | Berkeley

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Underground Film Night: Obscure Super 8 & 16mm Movies | Berkeley

The Berkeley Underground Film Society (BUFS) is an all ages club for collectors, researchers, and film enthusiasts in the East Bay and San Francisco area.

Their goal is to review and share a selective film history of movies on film.

Every Sunday, they screen buried, rarely projected, or otherwise obscure 8mm, Super 8, and 16mm prints from their collection.

Sunday, January 26, 2014
"Breathless" | Underground Film Night: Obscure Super 8 & 16mm Movies | Berkeley

Breathless (1960) 16mm/Sound/90 min.

A young car thief kills a policeman and tries to persuade a girl to hide in Italy with him.

Breathless is a 1960 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It was his first feature-length work, and one of the earliest, most influential of the French New Wave. At the time, the film attracted much attention for its bold visual style and the innovative use of jump cuts.

According to the New York Times, Breathless is both “a pop artifact and a daring work of art” and even at 50, “still cool, still new, still – after all this time– a bulletin from the future of movies.”

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: François Truffaut (story)
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger

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