Origins of the 21st Century

6.3
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
8½ (1963)
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971)
The Princess Bride (1987)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Parasite (2019)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
The Substance (2024)
GoodFellas (1990)
Dune (2021)
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
The Batman (2022)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Barbie (2023)
The Wild Robot (2024)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Oppenheimer (2023)