Jean-Luc Godard, rule-breaking master of French cinema, dies at 91. With ‘Breathless’ in 1960, the filmmaker rode the crest of the French New Wave movement to liberate a hidebound movie industry.

Jean-Luc Godard, the influential French New Wave writer-director who broke new ground in cinematic expression in the 1960s with films such as “Breathless,” “Contempt” and “Weekend” and ...

News of Godard’s death was first reported by the French newspaper Liberation. It has since been confirmed by his lawyer that the director ended his life by assisted death.

Alongside Godard’s final film, Kino Lorber has also acquired North American rights to Cyril Leuthy’s “Godard Cinema,” a documentary spanning the years from Godard’s 1960 breakthrough ...

Writing in the winter of 1963-64, when he had six feature films under his belt but was still contributing to the famed French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema, Jean-Luc Godard wrote of Orson Welles ...

Godard understood film history as a text to be referenced, criticized, and revised. Entering into the field with a fully developed sense of the medium’s evolution, he was the first filmmaker to ...

Jean-Luc Godard, who has died aged 91, was one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema. The French-Swiss filmmaker found fame in the late 1950s as one of the leading figures in ...

Godard tells us that people used to want to be Faust, and now they just want to be kings. That’s the difference between a world of religion and a world of chintzy power.

Godard's career was defined by pushing cinematic language to its boundaries, then breaking them. Jean-Luc Godard, the pioneering French New Wave director who challenged and upended conventional ...

Godard films torture as an experience that morally requires a plain and frank representation even as it renders such representation impossible. And, at the most basic level, ...