Jean-Luc Godard‘s CONTEMPT, the director’s color and CinemaScope ravishingly visual New Wave masterpiece starring Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Fritz Lang and Jack Palance, has been beautifully restored in glorious 4K for its 60th Anniversary!

Contempt… That’s what ex-typist Bardot has for screenwriter/husband Piccoli — but why? Does she think he used her to get a lucrative assignment (a screen adaptation of Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’) from overbearing American producer Jack Palance? Was it that fanny pat to multilingual interpreter Giorgia Moll? Or does she just “not love him anymore?”

Godard’s most sun-splashed production, with achingly romantic music by Georges Delerue, unfolds amid the airiest and most fabulous of apartments and villas, and against dazzling seascapes, with a complex color scheme featuring a retina-searing red — always the same shade, on robes, railings, convertibles, etc. — never more vibrant than in this spectacular new 60th anniversary restoration from Studiocanal and Rialto Pictures.

“Godard’s ravishing masterpiece!” (Time Out London)

“GODARD’S GREATEST FILM…Visually arresting with an immortal score by Georges Delerue, it might be the only Godard film you can lose yourself in.” (New York Magazine)

“MAJESTIC…one of the greatest works by a director who continually reinvented the language of film.” (Wall Street Journal)

“”Its audacity is breathtaking!” (New York Times)

“HAS THE GLOW OF GREATNESS…An acid satire, an act of worship…Sports the nimbleness of comedy, strolls defiantly in the direction of the tragic…Why this should break the heart I have no idea, but it does.” (The New Yorker)

Sunday, August 20 Final Screening
Doors 3:30 pm | Movie 4:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Advance tickets HERE

CONTEMPT “Le Mepris” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962 / 14A / French with English subtitles / 102 mins) A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of “The Odyssey,” but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

*Minors OK. Must be 19+ w/ID for bar service.
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