Luc Moullet’s episodic, shaggy-dog debut—hailed by Godard as “revolutionary”—is an exemplary work of the Nouvelle Vague at the crest of its influence and renown.

A delirious threeway chase ensues when two women discover that they’re both romantically involved with the same man in this loving spoof of Hollywood-style action thrillers.

Jean-Pierre Léaud is bandit Billy the Kid in this psychotropic western, which plays like Duel in the Sun as directed by a French outsider artist.

Luc Moullet’s follow-up to the far-out excursions of The Smugglers and A Girl Is a Gun grounds itself in the shared everyday life of a couple, starring Moullet himself as a filmmaker who struggles to earn a living—and to please his intellectual wife.

Luc Moullet’s first feature-length documentary, a charming yet philosophically serious exploration of food, finds him tackling a knotty question: where does the food that winds up on our plates really come from?

In this typically delightful comedy, about a job counselor trying to find work for two unemployed men, Luc Moullet examines a recurring topic in his work: the shifting character of labor in an ever-changing, capitalism-dominated world.

This double bill program finds Luc Moullet adapting Henry James as only he can in Le Fantome de Longstaff, as well as the all-too-personal comedy of The Seats of the Alcazar, which ranks among the most profound and insightful meditations on movie love in his eclectic filmography.

At once a spoof of French cycling culture and a loving tribute to 19th-century writer and forerunner of surrealism Alfred Jarry, Up and Down follows a bicycle rally up the French Alps’ Parpaillon pass, where an elaborate series of gags awaits.

Memorable characters pass us by, one after the other, in this Gulf War–set comic political fable, a stylistically audacious synthesis of cinematic genres.

Luc Moullet contemplates the twilight of his career—and his own mortality—in this comic pseudo-documentary, an extremely free remake of Cecil B. DeMille’s The Whispering Chorus that ranks among his most profound meditations on cinema.

Luc Moullet travels to five alpine villages, interviewing the residents about murder, madness, and the strange case of provincial life in this darkly funny consideration of the extremes of human experience.

This program collects an assortment of short films by Luc Moullet: his directorial debut, Overdone Steak; the early ethnographic documentary Terres noires; the quasi–performance art hijinx of Essai d’ouverture; and two critical studies in capitalism, More and More and Less and Less. 

This program collects an assortment of short films by Moullet: the anarchic comedy tutorial Barres; La Valse des médias, an essay on the public library systems; the travelogue-esque Cabale des oursins and Le Ventre de l’Amérique; and the autobiographical Le Litre de lait.