Jean-luc godard was one of the most revered figures in world cinema, and one of the most irreverent. The French-Swiss writer-director, who died on September 13th, aged 91, had a deep knowledge and ...

Godard was raised as a Protestant but, in Paris, was surrounded by Catholic iconography, and his films reflect the tension between images of a purity and austerity tending toward the invisible, ...

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 ...

Jean-Luc Godard’s initial idea for the film “Goodbye to Language,” he said, was a simple one: “It’s about a man and his wife who no longer speak the same language. The dog they take on ...

Jean-Luc Godard intended to give the public what it wanted. His next film was going to be about a girl and a gun—”A sure-fire story which will sell a lot of tickets.” And so, like Henry ...

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 ...

Godard divorced Wiazemsky in 1979, after he had moved in with Miéville to the Swiss municipality of Rolle, where he lived with her for the rest of his life. Notable Deaths in 2022 121 photos.

Godard is known for self-conscious design flourishes and subversive narrative gambits, many of which Hazanavicius emulates. Scenes are color-coded to the primaries of red, yellow and blue or to ...

Godard made 15 feature films between 1959 and 1967, many of which are the ones we think of first in any survey of his work. But his later years did yield one near-masterpiece. Shot in 3D—Godard ...

Godard’s Michel is someone who is an outsider to social norms and the rule of law and he has only contempt for orderly life. He is a hardened derelict.

Godard followed the giddy playtime of “A Woman Is a Woman” with the much bleaker, unusually straightforward “Vivre Sa Vie” (a.k.a. “My Life to Live”).