Made over ten years at the end of cinemas first century, Jean-Luc Godards roving, essayistic video project is a multilayered celebration of the art forms achievements, as well as a raging condemnation of its failure to respond and engage with turbulent times. Melding together film clips, newsreel footage, painting, music, as well as Godards own narration in a transfixing collage, Histoire(s) du cinma is a passionate cri de coeur by a cinema icon entering a galvanising late period, of which many other works are included in this release. Marked by searching introspection and bold experimentation, these film and video projects evince a creative spirit continuously engaged with the question of cinemas place in the world, and the worlds place within cinema not least in Godards moving final film, Scnarios (2024), making here its world Blu-ray premiere.

BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES

• All 8 episodes of Histoire(s) du cinma, viewable with two optional English subtitle tracks: a narration translation, and annotated subtitles by Felicity Chaplin identifying clips and images
• Lettre Freddy Buache - Godard's anti-film commissioned for the 500th anniversary of the Swiss city of Lausanne (1982)
• Soft and Hard [Soft Conversation on Hard Subjects] - creative partners Godard and Miville discuss their work while involved in everyday tasks around their home (co-directed with Anne-Marie Miville, 1985, 52 mins)
• JLG/JLG, autoportrait de dcembre - Godards self-portrait documentary finds the filmmaker questioning his place in cinema history and the end of Western culture (1995)
• 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema - in his documentary in celebration of the centenary of cinema, Godard points the camera at himself (co-directed with Anne-Marie Miville, 1995)
• Moments choisis des histoire(s) du cinma - Godards re-edit of Histoire(s) du cinma on 35mm film reorganises footage and includes unique material (2004)
• Expos du film annonce du film Scnario - Jean-Luc Godard presents his idea for a 6-chapter feature film (2024)
• Scnarios - Godards final work (2024)
• New introduction by Godard expert Michael Witt (2025)
• New interview with Michael Witt on Godards magnum opus (2025)
• New interview with Godard collaborator Bernard Eisenschitz on the directors working methods (2025)
• Extensive archival TV interview with Godard on French programme Bouillon de culture (1993)
• Limited edition booklet featuring new essays by film writers Sophia Satchell Baeza and Jawni Han, and an essay by Adrian Martin
• Limited Edition of 5000 copies, presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings