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 walks then ...

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 ...

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 James’ hero in ...

Jean-Luc Godard, the visionary film director who shaped cinematic history with his provocative contributions to the French New Wave, died on Tuesday at the age of 91. Patrick Jeanneret, Godard’s legal ...

The nearly complete retrospective of the films and videos of Jean-Luc Godard that is the crown jewel of this year’s New York Film Festival and, for that matter, of movie viewing, began yesterday and ...

Jean-Luc Godard, the defiantly iconoclastic and stylistically adventurous filmmaking giant who rose to prominence as part of the French New Wave movement in the 1960s, has died. He was 91. Godard's ...

Film genius' Oscar honor gets slimed by anti-Semitism controversy. By Tim Appelo As Oscar controversies go it isn’t the biggest contretemps the Academy has ever seen, but after brewing beneath the ...

As he announced with The Artist, writer-director Michel Hazanavicius makes movies about movies. So it was nearly inevitable that he would someday burlesque the work of Jean-Luc Godard, 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, ...

Jean-Luc Godard, the ingenious "enfant terrible" of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema in 1960 with his debut feature "Breathless" and stood for years as one of the world's most ...

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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 ...