Museum of the Moving Image (Venue Partner)
36-01 35 Avenue
718.777.6888
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Still from Breathless
- When
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Saturday July 11, 2009 (4pm)
Sunday July 12, 2009 (4pm)
- Where
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Directions: R, M to Steinway Street (exit station at 34 Ave). N, W to 36 Ave.
- Price
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$11 per film / $7 for members of Museum of the Moving Image or MAD
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FRENCH NEW WAVE ESSENTIALS
AT THE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN
BREATHLESS
July 11 & 12, 4 PM
1959, 90 mins. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg. With his jazz-like variation on a gangster movie, Godard ignored the rules of “good” filmmaking and changed the course of cinema. “Breathless was the sort of film where anything goes,” he wrote. “I also wanted to give the feeling that the techniques of filmmaking had just been discovered for the first time.” Bogart-like Jean-Paul Belmondo stars with pixieish Jean Seberg, and Jean-Pierre Melville has a cameo in one of the film’s homages to Bob le Flambeur.
This series marks the first collaboration between the Museum of Arts and Design and Museum of the Moving Image. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the French New Wave, this series will showcase some of the most influential films of this period, many being presented with recently restored 35mm prints. Films will be presented in MAD's 145-seat theater (first built in 1964 and restored and reopened last September). Organized by 
David Schwartz, chief curator of Museum of the Moving Image.
Museum of Arts and Design is located at 2 Columbus Circle at 59th Street. Tickets are $11 per film/$7 for members of Museum of the Moving Image or MAD. No reservations, seating is first come, first served.
For more information, contact 212.299.7717 or visit http://www.movingimage.us/site/calendar/index.html
