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Film Series

Oshima X Godard

 
 
Mar 3—Mar 16, 2017
 
   
 
 
 
 
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Commonly referred to as “the Japanese Godard,” Nagisa Oshima said he preferred that Jean-Luc Godard be called “the French Oshima.” However one chooses to regard these renegade auteurs, both were leaders of their respective countries’ New Wave movements, creating some of the most stylistically rule-breaking, politically incendiary films of the 1960s and 70s. BAMcinématek screens their explosive works side by side for a double dose of truly revolutionary cinema.


 
PAST EVENTS
Breathless
Film
Breathless
 

Godard’s emblem of New Wave cool starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg.

Mar 3—Mar 4, 2017
 
 
Cruel Story of Youth
Film
Cruel Story of Youth
 

Oshima’s delinquent youth shocker plays like Rebel Without a Cause for postwar Japan.

Mar 3—Mar 4, 2017
 
 
Vivre sa via
Film
Vivre sa vie
 

A beguiling Anna Karina stars in Godard’s provocative investigation of sex and capitalism.

Mar 4—Mar 13, 2017
 
 
Boy
Film
Boy
 

Oshima’s masterpiece is a haunting indictment of Japanese society.

Mar 4—Mar 13, 2017
 
 
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Film
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
 

Oshima’s avant-radical blend of Marxist politics, agitprop cool, and softcore.

Mar 5—Mar 14, 2017
 
 
Film
Weekend
 

Godard's apocalyptically funny journey into France's bourgeois black heart.

Mar 5—Mar 14, 2017
 
 
The Ceremony
Film
The Ceremony
 

Oshima offers a typically perverse take on the Ozu-esque family drama.

Mar 6—Mar 10, 2017
 
 
Tout va Bien
Film
Tout va bien
 

A shrewdly cast Jane Fonda stars in Godard’s audacious anti-bourgeois satire.

Mar 6—Mar 10, 2017
CURATOR’S CHOICE
 
 
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Film
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
 

Godard muses on everything from consumerism to sex to war in this Pop Art masterpiece

Mar 7—Mar 15, 2017
 
 
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Film
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
 

Oshima’s stylistically wild homage to renegade writer and criminal Jean Genet.

Mar 7—Mar 15, 2017
 
 
The Pleasures of the Flesh
Film
Pleasures of the Flesh
 

Oshima’s lurid “pink film” is a deliriously stylized exploration of sex and obsession.

Mar 8—Mar 12, 2017
 
 
Film
Pierrot Le Fou
 

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina star in one of the most beloved works of the French New Wave.

Mar 8—Mar 12, 2017
 
 
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Film
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
 

Oshima’s blistering attack on Japanese society, shot in lustrous black and white.

Mar 9—Mar 12, 2017
 
 
Masculine Feminine
Film
Masculine Feminine
 

Jean-Luc Godard’s celebrated masterful anthem of youth, love, and sex.

Mar 9—Mar 12, 2017
 
 
In the Realm of the Senses
Film
In the Realm of the Senses
 

Oshima’s succés de scandale is a still-potent investigation of sex and death.

Mar 11—Mar 16, 2017
 
 
Numéro deux
Film
Numéro deux
 

Godard dissects an ordinary family in this visionary multi-screen video provocation.

Mar 11—Mar 16, 2017