To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jean-Luc Godard's BREATHLESS,
Rialto Pictures will re-release a restored version of the film at
Hollywood's Chinese Theater next month. Subsequently, the film will
premiere in New York at Film Forum in May and afterwards, in theaters across the
nation as part of the inaugural TCM Classic Film Festival. "We've had some of our biggest hits with Godard's amazing, innovative
movies of the '60s," said Rialto founder Bruce Goldstein.
"But BREATHLESS is in a class by itself. It's not only one of the
most important films of the last half-century, still inspiring new
generations of moviemakers, but it's just as fun and audacious as it
was 50 years ago."

Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo in BREATHLESS, to be re-released next month.

Paris-based studio Pretty Pictures negotiated a deal with Rialto
Pictures, allowing them to restore and release BREATHLESS along with
other Godard films, including LE PETIT SOLDAT and LES CARABINIERS. If
you're planning on having your own Godard festival in your livingroom,
be sure to start with these essentials available on Film Fresh:

CONTEMPT (LE MEPRIS), 1963
Stars Michel
Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European
director, a crude and arrogant American producer, and
his disillusioned wife, Camille (played by Brigitte Bardot) as he attempts to doctor the
script for a new film version of The Odyssey.

UNE FEMME MARIEE, 1964
Charlotte aimlessly drifts between morning affairs with the
artistic Robert and mundane evenings with her paternalistic
husband Pierre. Unsure of whether she loves either man,
Charlotte discovers she is pregnant and must come to terms with her
emotional infidelities.

ALPHAVILLE, 1965
A cockeyed fusion of science fiction, pulp characters, and surrealist
poetry, Jean-Luc Godard's irreverent journey to the mysterious
Alphaville remains one of the least conventional films of all time.
Eddie Constantine stars as intergalactic hero Lemmy Caution, on a
mission to kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60.

MADE IN USA, 1966
With its giddily complex noir plot and widescreen, color-drenched
images, MADE IN USA was a final burst of exuberance from Jean-Luc
Godard's early-sixties barrage of delirious movie-movies. Yet this
chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of consumerism --
featuring Anna Karina as the most brightly dressed private investigator
in film history, rummaging through an intricate plot for a former lover
who might have been assassinated -- also points toward the more
political cinema that would come to define Godard. Featuring characters
with names such as Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara, David Goodis and
Doris Mizoguchi, and appearances by a slapstick Jean-Pierre Leaud and a
sweetly singing Marianne Faithfull, this piece of pop art is like a
Looney Tunes rendition of THE BIG SLEEP gone New Wave.

LA CHINOISE, 1967
Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of
middle-class students, led by Guillaume and Veronique, form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by
any means necessary. After studying the growth communism in China, the
students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their
own revolution.

2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER, 1967
In 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER Jean-Luc Godard beckons us ever
closer, literally whispering in our ears as narrator. About what?
Money, sex, fashion, the city, love, language, war: in a word,
everything. Considered by many to be among the legendary French
filmmaker's finest achievements, the film takes as its ostensible
subject the daily life of Juliette Janso, a housewife
from the Paris suburbs who prostitutes herself for extra money. Yet
this is only a template for Godard to spin off into provocative
philosophical tangents and gorgeous images. 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT
HER is perhaps Godard's most revelatory look at consumer culture, shot
in ravishing widescreen color by Raoul Coutard.

LE GAI SAVOIR, 1969
While producing a movie, two militants, Emile Rousseau and
Patricia Lumumba, discuss the nature of language. Referring to
spoken word as "the enemy" -- the weapon used by the establishment to
confuse liberation movements -- the two deconstruct the meanings of
sounds and images in a film representing an important step in Godard's
return to a "degree zero" of cinema.

NOTRE MUSIQUE, 2004
Part poetry, part journalism, part philosophy, master filmmaker
Jean-Luc Godard's NOTRE MUSIQUE is a witty and lyrical reflection on
war through the ages. The film is structured into three Dantean
Kingdoms: Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. The journey begins in Hell,
represented by modern war and then moves to Purgatory, set in Sarajevo.
Finally, Paradise is conceived as a small beach guarded by Marines from
the United States. At the same time, the film also follows the parallel
stories of two Israeli Jewish women, one drawn to the light and one
drawn towards darkness.