<p>It’s Stephen’s 5th pick: <em>Pierrot le Fou</em>, the 1965 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.</p><p>Godard himself said the film was "connected with the violence and loneliness that lie so close to happiness today. It's very much a film about France."</p><p>And with its fourth wall breaks, often jarring editing style, and tendency to internally jump among mass culture and/or pop art references in both extremely metatextual and self-referential ways, the film is at once recognizable as a Godard film, a French New Wave film, and in a broader way, a certain type of arthouse film that is at once exciting for many and probably challenging if not off-putting for many more.</p><p>As for our purposes, the movie has never actually appeared in the top 10 of Sight &amp; Sound’s critics or directors surveys, but it was tied as a runner up with Hiroshima mon Amour and The Gold Rush on the 1972 list. </p><p>In the 2012 polling, it was tied at #42 by critics and #91 by directors. And since we recorded this back in October, it tied for #85 on the 2022 critics list and was not included on the directors top 100 list.</p><p><em>Produced by </em><a href="https://www.stereoactivemedia.com/" rel="nofollow"><em>Stereoactive Media</em></a></p>