on the road with jlg: weekend & soigne ta droite - brand-new 35mm prints!!! january 5 - 11, 2001 photo: soigne ta droite

see information about our box office sales here. film descriptions and times On the Road with JLG - two road movies from the most important, influential filmmaker of his generation. Thanks go to New Yorker Films and Jackie Raynal. film descriptions and times: WEEKEND / LE WEEK-END 1967; 95m It’s been 33 years since WEEKEND, Jean-Luc Godard’s incendiary classic, first stormed its way into cinemas. More than just a movie, Godard’s risky, wildly inventive tour through an aggressively materialistic contemporary France caught the mood of May ’68 a few months early. If you’ve never seen it, or if you’re ready to pay it another visit, this is the time, the place and the print, which is brand-new. And the impact of WEEKEND is only deepened when it’s seen side by side with the gorgeously elegiacal SOIGNE TA DROITE, another road movie made 20 years later at the end of the mellower, all-business 80s. Starring Godard himself, in a very Jerry Lewis-like performance as "the Idiot Prince," the French rock band Les Rita Mitsouko, and the ever-lovely Jane Birkin. "WEEKEND is a rambling mystery not unlike the long, knotted tail swirling under an old dime-store kite." - Manny Farber

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"It’s [Godard’s] vision of hell and it ranks with the greatest… . We’re hardly aware of the magnitude of the writer-director’s conception until after we are caught up in the comedy of horror, which keeps going further and further and becoming more nearly inescapable…". - Pauline Kael Fri Jan 5: 1, 5, & 9 Sat Jan 6: 4 & 8 Sun Jan 7: 4 & 8 Mon Jan 8: 2:45 & 6:45 Tue Jan 9: 2 Wed Jan 10: 3:45 Thurs Jan 11: 1, 5, & 9 KEEP UP YOUR RIGHT / SOIGNE TA DROITE 1987; 82m "The biggest surprise [of SOIGNE TA DROITE] is Godard's modification of his own persona: in contrast to the grumpy, would-be sages of First Name: Carmen and King Lear, his benign and ethereal character is positively Keatonian, with echoes of Tati's Monsieur Hulot as well." - Jonathan Rosenbaum Fri Jan 5: 3:15 & 7:15 Sat Jan 6: 6:15 & 10:10 Sun Jan 7: 6:15 Mon Jan 8: 1, 5, & 9 Tue Jan 9: 4:15 Wed Jan 10: 2 Thurs Jan 11: 3:15 & 7:15