Anna Karina
1) Vivre sa vie
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Vivre sa vie was a turning point for Jean-Luc Godard and remains one of his most dynamic films, combining brilliant visual design with a tragic character study. The lovely Anna Karina, Godard's greatest muse, plays Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress but instead ends up a prostitute, her downward spiral depicted in a series of discrete tableaux of daydreams and dances. Featuring some of Karina and Godard's most iconic moments, from...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When she was a teenager, Anna Sten was already a star in Soviet silent movies. When talking pictures started, she moved to Germany and had an impressive career there as well. Samuel Goldwyn, a prestigious independent Hollywood producer, brought her to Hollywood in the hopes that he had discovered the next Garbo or Dietrich. But the projects he picked for her were all big flops. At the age of 27, she was a has-been and her career never recovered.
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1515 Machiavelli stated that it would be better for the Prince to be feared, than loved. Some 500 years later, Michael Hardt, political philosopher and co-author of *Empire, Multitude and Commonwealth*, asks what it would mean to base a political system on love, rather than on fear. How can we transform a society that is increasingly defined by a permanent state of war and cultivated by an industry of fear? How can we realize the paradigm shift...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement. Anna Karina (in her first collaboration with Godard, whose camera is visibly besotted with her) is beguiling as the mysterious woman with whom Forestier becomes infatuated.
5) Alphaville
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
Français
Description
In ALPHAVILLE, Jean-Luc Godard fuses a hardboiled detective story with science fiction. Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), a hero Godard borrowed from a series of French adventure films, comes to ALPHAVILLE, the capital of a totalitarian state, in order to destroy its leader, an almost-human computer called Alpha 60. While on his mission, Lemmy meets and falls in love with Natacha (Anna Karina), the daughter of the scientist who designed Alpha 60....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
10) The Nun
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
Français
Description
Around 1750, a young girl is sent to a convent against her will. When she asks to renounce her vows, she finds herself caught in a fatal trap. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**. "*In its sculptural compositions and meticulous choreography of bodies through space, it has a recognizably Rivettian formal beauty.*" - Justin Chang, **The Los Angeles Times**