New Wave A Go-go! / Band Of Outsiders October 28, 2009

Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave gangster/comedy/musical, described by the filmmaker as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka," is a genre-bending, convention-flaunting, postmodern romp that's just as thrilling, audacious and plain fun to watch today as it was upon its initial release in 1964.
Following up on his groundbreaking classics BREATHLESS, A WOMAN IS A WOMAN and MY LIFE TO LIVE, Godard takes his love of experimental filmmaking techniques and American genres movies of the '30s and '40s (encompassing slapstick comedies, big-budget musicals and, of course, B-movie crime melodramas) to giddy new heights, creating what may be the loosest, loopiest film of his career.
Two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of their desire (the incandescent Anna Karina, a frequent Godard collaborator, both on and off camera) to help them commit a robbery––in her own home. Along the way, we're treated to strange Godard-ian non-sequiters, dazzling Parisian locations, witty one-liners, and best of all, in the film's most famous scene, a joyously impromptu jukebox dance in a sidewalk cafe.
Heavily referenced in numerous subsequent films, including Quentin Tarantino's PULP FICTION (the director also famously named his production company, A Band Apart, after the film), BAND OF OUTSIDERS is a unique re-imagining of the gangster genre, an audacious yarn that’s at once sentimental and fun-loving, romantic and melancholy.

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