Juliet Berto

Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city's many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti and photorealism, roller disco & gang violence, evangelical Christians, Hare Krishnas, artists, angels and ordinary Angelenos.

In this classic film from Jean-Luc Godard, two militants have a discourse on language while alone in an abandoned television studio. 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.

In this adaptation of the Christ story set in a post-apocalyptic world, punks living in a junkyard near a nuclear crater await their savior's arrival.

Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of students 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, an advocate of Maoism, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire.

Paris, January 1942 - art dealer Robert Klein is making a killing. For this loyal Frenchman the Nazi occupation is a unique business opportunity.

Determined to collect an inheritance, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them.

In Venice, a forty-year-old married director meets a twenty-three-year-old English woman and begins a passionate love affair with her.