Special Screening

11/18/10 to 11/20/10

Two opportunities to view a new print of Jean-Luc Godard's Every Man for Himself (1979).

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Every Man for Himself
- Saturday, November 20 8:35 PM
Every Man for Himself
- Thursday, November 18 7:00 PM
New print. An achingly lyrical film about the selling of the self, Every Man for Himself follows a businessman's encounter with three prostitutes in a nameless Swiss city. In true Godard fashion, each character is a cipher for ideas, and each a refracted side of the director himself. With Isabelle Huppert and Nathalie Baye.
Repeated on Saturday, November 20.

Special Screening

11/18/10 to 11/20/10

(Sauve qui peut (la vie), a.k.a. Slow Motion). Godard called Every Man for Himself his second first film. It does leave one breathless. His first feature after eight dry years is an achingly lyrical film about the selling of the self. Three non-souls-Paul Godard (Jacques Dutronc), a bespectacled videomaker working in television; Paul's lover Denise (Nathalie Baye), heading for the country; and Isabelle (Huppert), a farm girl turned city prostitute-cross paths in a nameless Swiss city. In a wonderfully wry script by Jean-Claude Carrière and Anne-Marie Miéville, the central metaphor is a Rube Goldberg–like human configuration conceived by a businessman for three prostitutes (one of them Huppert): "The image is O.K.," he says after much practice. "Let's work on the sound." In true Godard fashion, each character is a cipher for ideas, and each a refracted side of the director himself. While Paul looks myopically...

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Written by Jean-Claude Carrière, Anne-Marie Miéville. Photographed by William Lubchansky, Renato Berta, Jean Bernard Menoud. With Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye, Roland Amstutz. (87 mins, In French with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From The Film Desk)