Pierrot le fou
Jean-Luc Godard 1965 France/Italy (1st time; DVD)
A married man bored with his life runs away to the south of France with his babysitter.
Drenched in colour, politics and philosophy, this is often credited as the film which combined all of Godard's preoccupations. Most interesting is the constant self-reflexivity, attractive not only in itself but because of the sparkling performances from Karina and Belmondo; it looks absolutely gorgeous, too, with some incredible long-take sequences, the most impressive of which has the present and a flashback happen in the same take, with actors disappearing out of frame and re-entering in a different time, but the same space. Almost impossible to sum up.

Made in U.S.A.
Jean-Luc Godard 1966 France (1st time; DVD)
When she discovers her journalist fiancé has been killed, a woman investigates the circumstances of death and becomes involved in political corruption.
Incoherent and fragmented even by Godard's standards, and curiously titled, for the references to American culture aren't all that obvious (or scathing) besides the self-reflexive commentary on how the narrative is borrowed from Hollywood gangster films, or "a Disney film with Bogart". Karina has all the gorgeous charm in the world, but this is minor Godard all the same - though there remains a fantastic scene in a bar, with characters coming in and out of frame at will, with a short essay on language.