Jean-Luc Godard, 1980. (Photo by Gilbert Uzani / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) “Godard didn’t make cinema. Godard was cinema.” So said some French dignitary (was it Macron or his tweeters?) when the ...

In the wake of 'Breathless,' New Waves that sprang up across the planet, from Brazil to Czechoslovakia to Japan, owed a major debt to him, as did generations of American directors, including Scorsese, ...

The Netflix film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave classic “Breathless” is chock-full of names with key roles in cinema history. By Ben Kenigsberg The American director moves his ...

French film director Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022) became a legend in film history at age 29 with his 1959 film *Breathless*. French philosopher Michel Foucault said, “There was no Godard before Godard, ...

Jean-Luc Godard and Vivre sa vie / Tom Milne -- Jean-Luc Godard : no difference between life and cinema / Gene Youngblood -- Godard and the revolution / Andrew Sarris -- Angle and reality : Godard and ...

There are many stories about Jean-Luc Godard in Cannes, like the year he helped to shut it down (1968) because of the civil unrest that was sweeping France at the time. Then there was the time when ...

Today in Old-Lion Feuds That Crack Us Up: Norman Mailer vs. Jean-Luc Godard“I will say, and this is for the record, Jean-Luc Godard may well be the third most awful man I’ve met in my life.” ...

As a teenager in the U.K., I grew up reading the reviews of film critic Mark Kermode, whose smart and opinionated engagement with contemporary cinema rapidly won him a following and led to him ...