



Kino: Two Restored Jean-Luc Godard Flims Coming to Blu-ray in October Posted July 20, 2017 05:09 PM by



La Chinoise (1967) and Le Gai Savior (1969), which will transition to Blu-ray in October. Kino Repertory will screen the restorations in select theaters across the nation.



La Chinoise opens July 21 and Le Gai Savior opens July 28 at the Quad Cinema in New York City.



La Chinoise



1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution. Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.



Le Gai Savoir



While alone in an abandoned television studio, two militants, Emile Rousseau (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Patricia Lumumba (Juliet Berto), have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as "the enemy"--the weapon used by the establishment to confuse liberation movements--the two deconstruct the meanings of sounds and images in an attempt to "return to zero" and truly experience the joy of learning.









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Top contributor rapta Jul 20, 2017 Arrow Academy are releasing La Chinoise in the UK soon. Wouldn't be surprised if they also did Le Gai Savoir too, especially since they're also doing other Godard at the moment. AnthonyGG Jul 20, 2017 Rapta - I know Arrow Academy is releasing the documentaries Godard did with Gorin as well as Tout va Bien but are there any others rumored to be coming down the pike from them? I'll pick up La Chinoise and Savoir from Kino but interested in what else Arrow may have in store. henry001 Jul 20, 2017 I love the idea of having more Godard titles in blu ray, but their choice is always limited to his earlier films as if his later period really doesn't count. Only Cohen, Olive, Criterion came up with a few and I wish other companies has guts to do so as well (Kino/Lorber released Film Socialisme and Goodbye to Language after theatrical release, but not his later films at all).

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