Was voted #48 on the Sight and Sound BFI 2012 Poll.
According to Jean-Luc Godard, the best way to look at the series is to enter into the image without a single name or reference in your head. In a way the less one knows, the better.
The sources of referenced films and literary quotations are delineated chronologically by the film critic Céline Scemama-Heard in "Histoire(s) du cinéma de Jean-Luc Godard: La force faible d'un art".
Is composed almost entirely of visual and auditory quotations from films.
Gaumont, which produced the series, couldn't cleared the rights to its many film clips and artworks shown outside of France until 2007. Only then did Gaumont issue a definitive DVD edition in the United States.
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By what name was Histoire(s) du cinéma (1989) officially released in Canada in English?
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