King Lear (#1249)

Jean-Luc Godards first English-language narrative feature is a radical anti-adaptation of Shakespeares masterpiece that finds the visionary filmmaker continuing to reinvent the syntax of cinema. In a post-Chernobyl world where culture has been lost, William Shakespeare Jr. V (played by theater director Peter Sellars) attempts to reconstruct his ancestors play, abetted by a cast that includes Molly Ringwald, Burgess Meredith, and Godard himself as a crazed avant savant. Through a dense layering of sounds, images, and ideas about everything from language to the economics of filmmaking to the very meaning of art in a ruined world, Godard fashions a puckish and profound metacinematic riddle to be endlessly analyzed, argued over, and savored.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 2K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Audio recording of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival press conference,