THR is also debuting new stills from Richard Linklater's homage to 'Breathless' and the French New Wave, which premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received rave reviews.

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, 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 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 ...

When Godard and his peers began to make their own films, the world was able to see their vibrant, impish, polemical ideas about film put into action. They argued that cinema — with all of its ...

Some of Godard’s better-known works were finding their way onto DVD, but many more were strictly on VHS, often long out of production. And the rest were seemingly not available whatsoever.

But Godard clearly wasn’t interested, and unlike Varda, who charmed admirers who too often mistook her for a cute old lady, he didn’t play the game. He didn’t have to.

In short order, I saw Godard’s other greatest films from the early to mid-1960s— Contempt, perhaps my favorite of all his films, an utterly precise and insightful work about the beginning of ...

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 ...

“Godard speaks to a generation that’s only now getting voting weight in the academy,” said Mr. Robinson, who is both a writer and a director, and had an Oscar nomination in 1990 for his ...