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Cinephile slackers Franz (Sami Frey) and Arthur (Claude Brasseur) spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile (Anna Karina).
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May 23, 2015 · Band of Outsiders is like a reverie of a gangster movie as students in an expresso bar might remember it or plan it—a mixture of the gangster film virtues (loyalty, daring) with innocence,...
Full Review | Oct 10, 2022. Viewed by some as Godard’s most accessible movie, “Band of Outsiders” is a playful, saucy romp which has influenced a variety of filmmakers through the decades ...
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Four years after Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders (Bande à part). In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home. This audacious and wildly entertaining French New W...
The Criterion Collection ports their old DVD edition of Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsidersover to DVD, basing the transfer off of a new 2010 restoration of the film. The film is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on a dual-layer disc with a new 1080p/24hz transfer. The new restoration and the new high-definition transfer both offer a...
The film’s shooting style and the equipment used does limit the sound to begin with but the lossless linear PCM 1.0 mono track sounds quite a bit better than the DVD’s Dolby Digital track. It’s not a lively track, and fidelity is still lacking, but the minor distortion I always felt was present in the DVD’s track is gone and dialogue is certainly n...
All supplements have been ported over from the DVD. First is a Visual Glossaryput together by Criterion, showing 31 clips from the film that have references to other films, novels, or are inside-jokes of sorts. The references range from the novel that inspired the film to Chaplin, to vague references involving previous films that featured the Louvr...
The supplements haven’t been updated unfortunately, but the new transfer does offer a noticeable improvement over the DVD and admirers of the film may want to pick up the Blu-ray on that basis alone. BUY AT:
Sep 7, 2011 · Clair’s film, one of the most breathtaking of the early sync-sound masterpieces, shares with Band of Outsiders not only its intermingling of generic components (love triangle, gangster melodrama, musical), but its vision of the fabled city, a place that’s playful and vibrant but also enshrouded by perpetually overcast skies, where ...
May 6, 2016 · Adapted from Dolores Hitchens’ 1950s pulp novel “Fools’ Gold,” “Band of Outsiders” tells the simple, linear story of a girl and two guys who, after some desultory flirtation, embark on ...
Four years after Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders ( Bande à part ). In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home.