“Godard par Godard” draws together an extraordinary array of archival footage that even most Godard fans have probably never seen: on-the-set looks at Godard shooting his ’60s classics, a ...

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 ...

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 most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, had invented a resolutely modern, intensely free art. We have lost a national treasure, one regarded as a genius.” ...

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 ...

Godard’s harsh and direct, yet complex and intimate approach to the subject contrasts with Bigelow’s relatively careless, aesthetically mediocre, and entertainingly grandiose and ...

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 ...

Nor was Godard the first to tamper with Griffith’s template. The rules had been reinvented by the Soviet montage theorists, by the enigmatic Oscar Micheaux, and by American underground filmmakers.

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 is not, like Hollywood’s product producers, naïve (or cynical) enough to remake the movies he grew up on. But, loving the movies that formed his tastes, he uses this nostalgia for old ...