Band of Outsiders (9/12/11)

Saw Godard's Band of Outsiders at Film Forum today. So good! I was a little worried it would be rambling and plotless and pointless. But no, charmingly rambling and sweet and so fresh. "Fresh" is a cliched term to use to describe film, but really, that is the word that came to my mind at the end. I mean, it came out in 1964, but feels so much more youthful and exciting and funny than so many Hollywood movies you'd see today.
But I guess that's not saying anything surprising, really. 

Highlights:

• Old man vaguely fondling the English teacher's butt (and the English teacher not seeming to care at all).
• Dancing at the bar, with Anna Karina talking at the end and it looking very unscripted
• The flashing of all the actors' faces at the beginning title sequence
• Odile "French kissing" Arthur
• Running through the Louvre

Rating: 3.5/4

Also: I felt the girl in this film, Odile (Anna Karina) was totally an iconic hipster in terms of both her personality and her style.