Maybe it’s an aftereffect of the heat and shoulder-to-shoulder swaying at ACL, but we’re feeling particularly groovy today. The Austin Cinematheque understands, as it’s all peace, love, and Brigitte Bardot in tonight’s screening of Contempt at the Texas Union Theatre. Okay, so not so much with the peace. Director Jean-Luc Godard takes on the shady world of filmmaking and the lengths one must go through to see an artistic vision through to the bitter......

A Scanner Darkly was the hot ticket last night, and we even saw a few of you sneaking into Superman Returns at the South Lamar Alamo. If you missed the rare opportunity to see Jean-Luc Godard’s masterpiece projected on a big screen, here is the word straight from Austin Film Society Programming Director, Chale Nafus: Since some of you (were) at the premiere of A Scanner Darkly (Wednesday night), we are considering showing Jean-Luc Godard's......

The Superman Returns unprecedented 7-day opening weekend begins today. To kick off this holiday “week end,” film philes might opt for something really special: An Austin Film Society 20th Anniversary screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s Week End at the Alamo Downtown. This 1967 classic follows a bourgeois French couple as they make their way to the country to visit the wife’s mother and find themselves in the mother of all traffic jams. What is intended to......

We haven't gotten around to the weekend IST list - we're still hungover after last night's Le Tigre show at Emo's. Check back tomorrow. F R I D A Y in-store · Knife Party and Assacre at End of an Ear. 6pm [mp3: Assacre - I Feel That Gay Marriage Should] music · David Garza at Stubb's [mp3: David Garza - Eleven is Real] music · The Chapters, Vacation Gold, King Tears Duo, and Sumner......

One shining example of French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's intuitive mastery of cinematic storytelling is his 1961 film, Une Femme est Une Femme (A Woman is a Woman). An art-house musical comedy that tells the tale of a bizarre love triangle entangling a Parisian stripper, her stick-in-the-mud lover, and his debonair best friend, Une Femme is Godard's tribute to the golden era of American musicals, when icons like Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, and......

Tonight, the Austin Film Society's Summer Essential Cinema Series kicks off with Jean Luc Godard's Breathless, which we told you about last week. If you haven't purchased your tickets online yet, there should be some available at the door. Tickets are only $4. Show starts at 7pm. But if French dialogue and gorgeous black and white cinematography aren't your thing, there's always the screening of American Graffiti at the Paramount Theatre. See what genius......

MONDAY [music, swing dancing] Paris 49 weekly set at the Continental Club, 6:30-8:30, No Cover! [music] The Wind-Up Bird, Dirty Projectors, Vuk, at Nat Baldwin at Emo's [lecture] LBJ School's Future Forum series hosts "Genocide: Personal Perspectives from Burundi". LBJ Library, 7pm TUESDAY [film] Jean Luc Godard's Breathless at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, presented by the Austin Film Society [film] Fast Times at Ridgemont High and American Graffiti at Paramount State Theatre (through Wednesday) [music]......

Ever present on the constantly changing mental roster of our Top Ten Favorite Films is A Bout de Souffle ("Breathless"), the visually stunning and morally ambiguous first effort by French New Wave director Jean Luc Godard. While its plot verges on the overly simplistic (Man Steals Car; Man Murders Cop; Man Falls In Love With Beautiful Girl While On the Run; Someone Dies!), Breathless is arguably one of the finest manifestations of existentialist thought:......