It's a brilliantly colorful, polyglot album, the closest pop music ever came to the restless esthetic prowling of a Godard film.

Rip Torn, who had been arrested during the filming in New York of the Godard film, and his wife Geraldine Page struck up a long-term friendship with the band.

He compared the Godard film to the film "Birth of a Nation," which he said Bravo withdrew four years ago because of complaints that it was offensive to blacks.

Godard films, for example, had their first runs here.

Tarantino formed A Band Apart in 1991, naming it after his favorite Godard film, Bande à part.

Beyond that "compromise," Godard refused to budge, saying, "Hadn't they ever bothered to see a Godard film?"

Her only flaw is having none; she's as pure as a young ideologue in a 60's Godard film - without Godard's dry humor.

He said he chose the Godard film because it "questioned the very nature of conversation."

Eight other Godard films will be shown, from "Breathless" to his 1984 "Hail Mary."

For example, it was the only Godard film selected for Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 movies.