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Jean-Luc Godard was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film editor whose career spanned nearly seventy years. He directed, wrote, produced and edited many films. The following attempts to be a comprehensive filmography.
Sep 13, 2022 · Godard’s 12 Best Films: A Beginner’s Guide to the Great Filmmaker’s Work. The late director not only helped kick off the New Wave, he changed the language of cinema forever. By Christian ...
Also that year he worked on a couple of collective films: The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964) (from which Godard's sequence was later cut) and Six in Paris (1965). In 1964 Godard and his wife Anna Karina formed their own production company, Anouchka Films.
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Breathless. 1960 1h 30m Not Rated. 7.7 (88K) Rate. A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy. Director Jean-Luc Godard Stars Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean Seberg Van Doude. 5.
- Here and Elsewhere / Ici et Ailleurs
- The Little Soldier / Le Petit Soldat
- A Woman Is A Woman / Une Femme Est Une Femme
- Notre Musique
- Goodbye to Language / Adieu Au Langage
- Alphaville
- Contempt / Le Mépris
- Two Or Three Things I Know About Her / Deux Ou Trois Choses Que Je Sais D’Elle
- Weekend / Week-End
- The Chinese / La Chinoise
In Here and Elsewhere, a collaboration with partner and filmmaker Anne-Marie Miéville, Godard uses the documentary format to explain the limits of filmmaking, as well as its dangers. The director boldly criticizes those who use movies to spread propaganda. The entire work toes the line between an art film and a classic documentary, which likely won...
The Little Soldier tells the story of Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor), as he struggles to evade enlistment in the Algerian war. He unexpectedly meets and falls in love with a mysterious woman during a treacherous mission, complicating his situation even more. Godard uses the simple love story to drive the point home about the absurdity and cruelty o...
• Available on The Criterion Channel and Apple TV+ Godard's A Woman is a Woman is a love letter to the musical comedy genre, which is a pleasant surprise considering the director's portfolio. It revolves around Angéla's (Anna Karina) unfortunate situation, where she wants to have a child with Émile (Jean-Claude Brialy) but is met with negativity ev...
Godard doesn't hold back in Notre musique. The movie is an obvious commentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the role of the film industry in accurately (or inaccurately) representing it. RELATED: 10 Best Documentaries From The 1990s, Ranked By IMDb It's separated into sections, with each one telling a separate narrative before they all co...
• Available on Hoopla Goodbye to Language is one of the best movies about philosophythat underscores Godard's ability to make audiences question their perspectives and thoughts while watching a film. As expected from the director, the entire enigmatic movie is anchored in a love story, but it goes way beyond the relationship when interpreted as a w...
• Available on Apple TV+ Godard always implemented high-concept philosophical themes into his work, but perhaps this is most clearly seen in his 1965 film, Alphaville. In this movie, Godard mixes science fiction themes with classic film noir in order to create a unique atmosphere. The film takes place in a city named Alphaville in which individuali...
• Available on MUBI 1963's Contempt features a stellar performance from one of France's cultural icons, Brigitte Bardot. The iconic French model, singer, and actress portrays Camille, a woman who decides she no longer loves her husband, a screenwriter working on an adaptation of The Odyssey. The film is a stunning exploration of human emotion that ...
• Available on HBO Max While Alphaville was focused on individualism, Two or Three Things I Know About Herwas centered on the rampant consumerism of the 20th Century. The film follows a housewife named Juliette who turns to sex work in order to make her suburban life more enjoyable, much to other people's disdain. Godard truly did an incredible job...
• Available on HBO Max Weekend was a turning point in the portfolio of the influential French director. Weekend was the start of a more political focus for Godard that wasn't as overt in his earlier works. RELATED: 2001: A Space Odyssey & 9 Other Classic Avant-Garde Films Fans Need To Check Out The film is centered around a mundane and typical holi...
• Available on Cohen Media Channel La Chinoiseis another example of Godard's academic and philosophical interests shining through in his art. Godard's love for Maoism was well known and the release of this film caused quite a stir. The film follows a philosophy student and four other members of a Maoist group as they try to change the world into a ...
Four of Godard's films are included on the 2022 edition of the British Film Institute (BFI) Sight and Sound magazine list of 100 Greatest Films: Breathless (38), Le Mépris (54), Histoire(s) du cinéma (78) and Pierrot le Fou (85).
Sep 13, 2022 · The French New Wave auteur and iconoclast, who died Tuesday at 91, made more than 100 films. Here's where to find six key titles, spanning his long career.
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