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{{Infobox film
| name           = Histoire(s) du cinéma
| image          =Histoire(s)DuCinema01.jpg
| image_size     =
| caption        = An image quoted from [[Prison (1949 film)|''Prison'' (1949 film)]] and overlapped text ''Histoire(s) du cinéma''
| director       = [[Jean-Luc Godard]]
| producer       = [[Canal+]], [[Centre National de la Cinématographie]], [[France 3]], [[Gaumont Film Company|Gaumont]], [[La Sept]], [[Télévision Suisse Romande]], Vega Films
| writer         = Jean-Luc Godard
| narrator       = Jean-Luc Godard
| starring       = [[Juliette Binoche]], [[Julie Delpy]], [[Anne-Marie Miéville]], [[André Malraux]], [[Ezra Pound]], [[Paul Celan]]
| music          = [[Paul Hindemith]], [[Arthur Honegger]], [[Arvo Pärt]], [[Ludwig van Beethoven]], [[Franz Liszt]], [[Giya Kancheli]], [[Bernard Herrmann]], [[Béla Bartók]], [[Franz Schubert]], [[Igor Stravinsky]], [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], [[John Coltrane]], [[Leonard Cohen]], [[György Kurtág]],  [[Otis Redding]], [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], [[Anton Webern]], [[Dino Saluzzi]], [[David Darling (musician)|David Darling]]
| cinematography = Pierre Binggeli, Hervé Duhamel
| editing        = Jean-Luc Godard
| distributor    = [[Gaumont Film Company|Gaumont]]
| released       = [[1988 in film|1988]]-[[1998 in film|1998]]
| runtime        = 266 minutes (total)
| country        = France<br>Switzerland
| language       = French
| budget         =
| gross          =
| website        =
}}
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'''''Histoire(s) du cinéma''''' ({{IPA-fr|is.twaʁ dy si.ne.ma|lang}}) is an 8-part video project begun by [[Jean-Luc Godard]] in the late 1980s and completed in 1998. The longest, at 266 minutes, and one of the most complex of Godard's films, ''Histoire(s) du cinéma'' is an examination of the history of the concept of [[film|cinema]] and how it relates to the 20th century; in this sense, it can also be considered a critique of the 20th century and how it perceives itself. The project is considered by many the most important work of the late period of Godard's career.

''Histoire(s) du cinéma'' is always referred to by its [[French (language)|French]] title, because of the [[word play]] it implies: ''[[histoire]]'' means both "history" and "story," and the ''s'' in parentheses gives the possibility of a plural. Therefore, the phrase ''Histoire(s) du cinéma'' simultaneously means ''The History of Cinema'', ''Histories of Cinema'', ''The Story of Cinema'' and ''Stories of Cinema''. Similar double or triple meanings, as well as [[pun]]s, are a recurring motif throughout ''Histoire(s)'' and much of Godard's work.

The film was screened out of competition at the [[1988 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="cannes-1988.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/335/year/1988.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Histoire(s) du cinéma |accessdate=2009-07-31|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> Nine years later, it was screened in the [[Un Certain Regard]] section at the [[1997 Cannes Film Festival|1997 Festival]].<ref name="cannes-1997.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4834/year/1997.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Histoire(s) du cinéma |accessdate=2009-09-26|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref>

The soundtrack was released as a 5-CD boxed set on the [[ECM Records|ECM]] record label.

==Episodes==
''Histoire(s) du cinéma'' consists of 4 [[chapters]], each one subdivided into two parts, making for a total of 8 [[episode]]s. The first two episodes, ''Toutes les histoires'' (1988) and ''Une histoire seule'' (1989) run 52 minutes and 48 minutes, respectively; the remaining 6 episodes, premiered 1997 - 1998, run under 40 minutes each.
* '''Chapter 1(a)''' : 51 min.
** ''Toutes les histoires'' ([[1988 in film|1988]]) - ''All the (Hi)stories''
* '''Chapter 1(b)''' : 42 min.
** ''Une Histoire seule'' ([[1989 in film|1989]]) - ''A Single (Hi)story''
* '''Chapter 2(a)''' : 26 min.
** ''Seul le cinéma'' ([[1997 in film|1997]]) - ''Only Cinema''
* '''Chapter 2(b)''' : 28 min.
** ''Fatale beauté'' ([[1997 in film|1997]]) - ''Deadly Beauty''
* '''Chapter 3(a)''' : 27 min.
** ''La Monnaie de l’absolu'' ([[1998 in film|1998]]) - ''The Coin of the Absolute''
* '''Chapter 3(b)''' : 27 min.
** ''Une Vague Nouvelle'' ([[1998 in film|1998]]) - ''A New Wave''
* '''Chapter 4(a)''' : 27 min.
** ''Le Contrôle de l’univers'' ([[1998 in film|1998]]) - ''The Control of the Universe''
* '''Chapter 4(b)''' : 38 min.
** ''Les Signes parmi nous'' ([[1998 in film|1998]]) - ''The Signs Among Us''

==Films referenced and quoted==
[[Image:Histoire(s)DuCinema02.jpg|thumb|right|Two images overlapped in Chapter 1(a): Godard at work and [[Ida Lupino]]]]
''Histoire(s) du cinéma'' is composed almost entirely of visual and auditory [[quotation]]s from films, some famous and some obscure.
The sources of referenced films and literary quotations are delineated chronologically by the [[film critic]] Céline Scemama-Heard, the author of ''Histoire(s) du cinéma de Jean-Luc Godard. La force faible d’un art''.<ref>Scemama-Heard, Céline, [http://cri-image.univ-paris1.fr/celine/celinegodard.html La partition des Histoire(s) du cinéma de Jean-Luc Godard], available on the site of [http://cri-image.univ-paris1.fr/accueil.html Centre de Recherche sur l'Image] (CRI), Paris</ref>

This is a partial list of works Godard drew upon to create the project; a complete list would number hundreds of entries.
* ''[[The Barefoot Contessa]]'''<ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite web|url=http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/52/moments.htm|title=The Misery and Splendors of Cinema: Godard's Moments Choisis des Histoire(s) du Cinéma - Bright Lights Film Journal|author=|date=|work=Bright Lights Film Journal|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref>
* ''[[Bicycle Thieves]]'''<ref name=autogenerated2 />
* ''[[The Docks of New York]]''<ref name=autogenerated2 />
* ''[[A King in New York]]''
* ''[[Man Hunt (1941 film)|Man Hunt]]''
* ''[[Notorious (1946 film)|Notorious]]'''<ref name=autogenerated2 />
* ''[[The Night of the Hunter (film)|The Night of the Hunter]]''
* ''[[Only Angels Have Wings]]''<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/15/godard_horwath.html Senses of Cinema: The Man with the Magnetoscope]</ref>
* ''[[Passion of Joan of Arc]]'', which Godard had featured earlier in ''[[Vivre Sa Vie]]''
* ''[[Rear Window]]
* ''[[Scarface (1932 film)|Scarface]]''<ref name=autogenerated1 />
* ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179216/movieconnections|title=Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (Video 1989)|author=|date=|work=IMDb|accessdate=14 March 2016}}</ref>
* ''[[Teorema (film)|Teorema]]''
* ''[[Zéro de conduite]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* Scemama-Heard, Céline, ''Histoire(s) du cinéma de Jean-Luc Godard. La force faible d’un art'', L’Harmattan, Paris, 2006. ISBN 2-296-00728-7 {{fr icon}}

==External links==
* [http://cri-image.univ-paris1.fr/celine/celine.html La partition des Histoire(s) du cinéma de Jean-Luc Godard par Céline Scemama]
* {{IMDB title|id=0097514|title=Histoire(s) du cinéma: Toutes les histoires}}
* {{IMDB title|id=0179216|title=Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule}}
* {{IMDB title|id=0118339|title=Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma}}
* {{IMDB title|id=0179212|title=Histoire(s) du cinéma: Fatale beauté}}
* {{IMDB title|id=0179213|title=Histoire(s) du cinéma: La monnaie de l'absolu}}
* {{IMDB title|id=0179217|title=Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une vague nouvelle}}
* {{IMDB title|id=0179214|title=Histoire(s) du cinéma: Le contrôle de l'univers}}
* {{IMDB title|id=0179215|title=Histoire(s) du cinéma: Les signes parmi nous}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|histoire|Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma}}
* [https://0xdb.org/0097514/player Annotated versions] of [https://0xdb.org/list==rlx:Histoire%28s%29%20du%20cinéma Histoires(s) du cinéma] at 0xDB

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