Celebrating 50 years of cool, Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless: 50th Anniversary premiered at Berlin before receiving a digital re-release in UK cinemas June 25th. Based on a story by François Truffaut and photographed by New Wave legend Raoul Coutard, with no less a crime specialist than Claude Chabrol as technical advisor, Godard's jazzy riff on American Film Noir features iconic performances from Belmondo, as the on-the-run Bogart-inspired small-time hood, and Seberg as his Herald Tribune-hawking American student girlfriend, who ultimately betrays him.

Breathless (À bout de souffle) reinvented the grammar of movies and almost instantly changed the course of international filmmaking and remains the only Godard film to be remade in Hollywood. I'll just bet their queuing up to do Weekend or Hail Mary. With Godard still going strong and about to release a new film Socialisme, it's a chance to celebrate where it all began, with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg effortlessly stylish and in love in Paris, in what was described by The telegraph as "One of the defining art moments of the post war period" and by The Financial Times as "witty, romantic, playful, serious it thinks everything is intoxicatingly touchable."

Breathless will be released on UK DVD and Blu-ray on 13th September 2010 by Optimum Home Entertainment, the latter as part of the Studio Canal Collection, at the RRP of £19.99 for the DVD and £24.99 for the Blu-ray.

DVD extras will be:

• Introduction by Jefferson Hack, creator & publisher of Dazed & Confused magazine;
• Rarely seen interview with Jean-Luc Godard by Mike Hodges from UK arts show Tempo (1965);
• Short film: Je T'Aime John Wayne directed by Toby MacDonald;
• Featurette on the life of Jean Seberg.

Blu-ray extras will be:

• Godard, Made in the USA (high definition, 48 mins);
• Introduction by Colin McCabe (4:42);
• Room 12, Hôtel de Suède (78:46);
• Jean-Luc According To Luc (8:30);
• Photo Gallery;
• Trailer (2:05);
• Poster.

Other upcoming Optimum Blu-ray releases the Studio Canal Collection coming on 13th September include Mulholland Drive, The Third Man, Delicatessen, The Pianist, The Graduate, Le Cercle Rouge.