Origins of the 21st Century
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Origins of the 21st Century
Overview
Commissioned by the heads of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival to make an opening-night short commemorating cinema as it enters its second full century, Godard instead offers up a 17-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wars and Nazi atrocities, interspersed with clips of Maurice Chevalier in "Gigi" and Godard's own "À bout de souffle."
Recommendation
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)
8½ (1963)
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Joker (2019)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Titanic (1997)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Shutter Island (2010)
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Oppenheimer (2023)
Interstellar (2014)
Ex Machina (2015)
Back to the Future (1985)
American Beauty (1999)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
The Truman Show (1998)
The Godfather (1972)
Inception (2010)
Inside Out (2015)
