Six years ago, in the pages of this journal, former director of the Melbourne International Film Festival Geoff Gardner described the DVD distribution of Jean-Luc Godard’s films as both “spotty and, really, rather irrational”. He had a point, at least at the time. There were, back then,
according to Gardner, only five of Godard’s films available on DVD: one in Britain, four in the United States and none at all in Australia. Slightly more than spotty, if you ask me, even for the time.