Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Country: France
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Movement: Other
Histoire(s) du cinéma (French: [is.twaʁ dy si.ne.ma]) is an 8-part video project begun by Jean-Luc Godard in the late 1980s and completed in 1998.[1] The longest, at 266 minutes, and one of the most complex of Godard's films, Histoire(s) du cinéma is an examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century; in this sense, it can also be considered a critique of the 20th century and how it perceives itself. The project is widely considered the most important work of the late period of Godard's career. Histoire(s) du cinéma is always referred to by its French title, because of the untranslatable word play it implies: histoire means both "history" and "story," and the s in parentheses gives the possibility of a plural. Therefore, the phrase Histoire(s) du cinéma simultaneously means The History of Cinema, Histories of Cinema, The Story of Cinema and Stories of Cinema. Similar double or triple meanings, as well as puns, are a recurring motif throughout Histoire(s) and much of Godard's work. The film was screened out of competition at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.[2] Nine years later, it was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Festival. Histoire(s) du cinéma consists of 4 chapters, each one subdivided into two parts, making for a total of 8 episodes. The first two episodes, Toutes les histoires (1988) and Une histoire seule (1989) run 52 minutes and 42 minutes, respectively; the remaining 6 episodes, premiered 1997 - 1998, run under 40 minutes each. Chapter 1(a) : 51 min. Toutes les histoires (1988) - All the (Hi)stories Chapter 1(b) : 42 min. Une Histoire seule (1989) - A Single (Hi)story Chapter 2(a) : 26 min. Seul le cinéma (1997) - Only Cinema Chapter 2(b) : 28 min. Fatale beauté (1997) - Deadly Beauty Chapter 3(a) : 27 min. La Monnaie de l’absolu (1998) - The Coin of the Absolute Chapter 3(b) : 27 min. Une Vague Nouvelle (1998) - A New Wave Chapter 4(a) : 27 min. Le Contrôle de l’univers (1998) - The Control of the Universe Chapter 4(b) : 38 min. Les Signes parmi nous (1998) - The Signs Among Us
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