Weekend December 3, 2004

Opening on one of the most celebrated tour-de-force tracking shots in the history of cinema--an outrageously surreal traffic jam evoking the work of artists from Marcel Duchamp to Jacques Tati--Weekend summed up many of the emotions raging through Europe at the time. This "film found on a scrap-heap," as one critic called it, touches on class struggle, environmentalism, politics, bourgeois commercialism, greed, and even the end of civilization itself, as Parisians on a weekend excursion gradually regress into barbarism (1967, 103 minutes).

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