Jean-Luc Godard
Birthday: 1930-12-03
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Biography: Jean-Luc Godard (December 3, 1930 – September 13, 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement and was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era.
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Contempt
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his di...
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Breathless
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the author...
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Belmondo, le magnifique
With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of t...
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Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte
1951. André Bazin and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze founded "Cahiers du cinéma". With contributions from s...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his...
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Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his...
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Here and Elsewhere
Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a Fre...
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Notre Musique
A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the...
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First Name: Carmen
The protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a wa...
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What's Wrong With The World
A reworking of extracts from Andre Malraux, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou, and GK Chesterton....
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Far from Vietnam
In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympa...
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Meetin' WA
Revolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with ...
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Routine Pleasures
Jean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor, artist/w...
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Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
A profile of Jean-Paul Belmondo by his peers. Besides appearing in over eighty films, the actor also...
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Godard Is Here
The film is a record of interviews of Godard’s films by two young aspiring directors, a Korean and a...
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Two in the Wave
An in-depth analysis of the relationship between New Wave pioneers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Go...
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A Story of Water
A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water....
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Close Up
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferenc...
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Keep Your Right Up
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles t...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to ...
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King Lear
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Cherno...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave
Part 6 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to...
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See You Friday, Robinson
"We should start with a correspondence, maybe we will not correspond to one another. Ebrahim can sen...
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Godard by Godard
Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard...
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Le Gai Savoir
Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage...
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Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution i...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe
Part 7 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to ...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us
Part 8 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to ...
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Alianças Profanas
During the quarantine promoted by the Coronavirus, hundreds of videos posted on Darwin's personal In...
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Fiancés on the Bridge
A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie...
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Band of Outsiders
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and...
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Marguerite as She Was
On June 3, 1991, Marguerite Duras gave me her last published work, "The North China Lover", autograp...
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Say God Bye
Fascinated by the already legendary filmmaker, as a teenager Thomas dreamed of becoming his assistan...
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The Glass Castle
Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning ho...
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Carl Th. Dreyer und Gertrud
Documentary about Carl Theodor Dreyer and his film Gertrud....
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Vladimir and Rosa
Jean-Luc Godard's and Jean-Pierre Gorin's interpretation of the Chicago Eight / Chicago Seven trial,...
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A Letter to Freddy Buache
This short film is Godard’s message to the people of Lausanne, specifically journalist and critic Fr...
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Operation Concrete
Godard returned to Paris briefly before getting a job as a construction worker on a dam project in S...
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After the Reconciliation
An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation ...
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Willing
A young, unscrupulous director hires an actress and uses the story she tells him of her life to writ...
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The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
This documentary reunites director Peter Lennon and cinematographer Raoul Coutard, who recount the m...
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Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel ...
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Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
A documentary, originally produced in 1966 for the French TV series "Pour le plaisir," about Robert ...
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Scheherazade
Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land...
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Number Two
Jean-Luc Godard mixes video and film in his Grenoble studio, discussing how he secured funding for t...
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How's It Going?
During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist act...
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Tribute to Eric Rohmer
Brief, fragmented memories of Rohmer spoken by Godard, while the screen shows various titles of arti...
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Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
A childhood in boarding school, volunteered at 17 for the war and dismissed for indiscipline, thug i...
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Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard: The Meeting in St-Gervais
In 2009, in a small theater in Geneva, Switzerland, the film directors Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Go...
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Soft and Hard
Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around th...
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Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 1
Lesson of April 14, 1978 (class #1) Films discussed: Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger, 1945), Breathles...
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Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 11
Lesson of October 13, 1978 (course #11). Films discussed: Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931), Germany Yea...
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Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 10
Lesson of October 7, 1978 (class #10). Films discussed : Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 19...
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The Dinosaur and the Baby
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of ar...
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Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication
The title and subtitle of this French miniseries are “Six Times Two; Over and under the media”. The ...
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France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19...
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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the succe...
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Voices
Documentary about Jean-Luc Godard filming Sympathy for the Devil with The Rolling Stones....
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Little Godard
The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hell...
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The Children Play Russian
A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state ...
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Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux
Rather than writing a simple letter to explain his absence from the press conference for his latest ...
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Cinématon
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest...
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Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française
After offering spectators a projection/comparison of extracts from 17 films (each time, the first 5 ...
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Paris Belongs to Us
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with...
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The Kreutzer Sonata
Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of ...
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September September
"[This film] embodies (...) one of his [Hahnemann's] most mature films. Rainy rides along Schönhause...
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The Darty Report
A daring deconstruction of consumerist behavior featuring a robot and Miss Clio Darty, with a voiceo...
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Vrai faux passeport
A dense work, citing everyone from Tarantino and Verhoeven to Artaud and Chaplin, made for Godard's ...
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The Little Soldier
Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilit...
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Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
On a snowy day in a Swiss village, Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to spark jealousy. L...
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Godard Cinema
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established hi...
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Adieu au TNS
In 1998, Jean-Luc Godard made a short video entitled Adieu au TNS (Farewell to the TNS). Never relea...
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Anna and the Jellyfish
A short film by Joel Nguyen, made for his mother. Influenced from Agnès Varda...
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Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud....
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I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
Contemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964 Cuban/Sov...
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Godard Etkisi
The first woman and the second woman spend a day together. According to their views, they are friend...
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Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars
Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors o...
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Memória Cubana
Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary sh...
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The 400 Blows
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...
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Wind from the East
A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attac...
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Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive
Jean-Luc Godard's acceptance video for the 2015 'Prix d’honneur'....
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Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings
She is one of the icons of our time: Isabella Rossellini, award-winning actress, supermodel, experim...
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The Staircase Wall
An experiment in activity, dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard and assembled in the immediate wake of his d...
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A German Youth
At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a ge...
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Noises From The Agora
Football, betting, agriculture, technology, conspiracy theories and the second round of one of the m...
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Godard: History: Passion
A 1983 film for Channel Four’s Visions, featuring interviews about the impact of Godard of British f...
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G(ode)ard
An experimental tribute to Jean-Luc Godard, his documentary works and his insights in our modern wor...
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Godard on TV: 1960-2000
A compilation of the most spectacular TV moments thanks to the presence and evocation of Jean-Luc Go...
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Back to Room 666
What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many movie makers to answer th...
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Only Godard
How do you craft the portrait of Jean-Luc Godard, or better yet a portrait of his methodology, his u...
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We're All Still Here
Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue between Plato and Socrates...
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The Three Disasters
Short film originally made as part of the anthology film, 3x3D. Jean-Luc Godard's first 3-D film int...
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Lila
Lila Biro is a remarkable character who witnessed Rossellini in India, played a key role in the cutt...
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Faces Places
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely ...
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefa...
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Godard in America
Spring 1970: Godard and Gorin, on the road, visiting colleges, speaking with Andrew Sarris, and expl...
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Scénarios
In French, "scénario" is cinema's name for how it tells stories. This is the title Jean-Luc Godard c...
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Scénario du film Passion
Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story ...
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The Married Woman
A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover....
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Françoise et Udo...
This is the story of a meeting between a man and a woman. In a train, an Austrian singer and a Frenc...
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Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making
Jean-Luc Godard visits NYU in order to discuss his latest feature "La chinoise" with graduate studen...
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Paparazzi
Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers att...
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Reporters
The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photog...
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Hail, Sarajevo
A short two-minute rumination on the once volatile situation during the period of the Bosnian War pr...
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One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
Short film, going behind-the-scenes of shooting for One Plus One (1968) in London, featuring an inte...
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Vivre Sa Vie
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution....
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Room 666
During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at...
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Le quadrille
The film features five actors, two women and three men. According to Rivette, “It ran 40 minutes and...
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Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his...
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Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965
Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is interviewed, along with actor Anna Karina and director Jean-Luc Godard, ...
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Zoom: Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard engages in a sociopolitical debate with French government official Jean St...
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La rouge et la noire
Carrying on Luc Moullets unfinished screenplay about the theft of la pénélope, a camera created by A...
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JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of ...
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Jean-Luc Godard, Disorder Exposed
The film retraces Jean-Luc Godard's notorious exhibition at the Centre national d'art et de culture ...
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2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard ...
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Goodbye to Language
The idea is simple / A married woman and a single man meet / They love, they argue, fists fly / A do...
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Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he's still looking at the fundrais...
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ORG
Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with c...
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Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting ...
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Once Upon a Time… Contempt
Fourty-six years since the release of Le mépris, Jean-Luc Godard watches the film again to comment o...
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The Image Book
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, tele...
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Cléo from 5 to 7
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...
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Filmmakers in Action
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect...
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Film catastrophe
In 2010, Godard's Film Socialisme explores the sinking of political ideals in Europe. In 2012, the C...
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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les P...
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Bardot et Godard
A documentary short following director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Contempt....
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Godard / Sollers : L’entretien
Jean-Luc Godard and Philippe Sollers meet in Paris to discuss Godard's film Je vous salue, Marie, an...
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Civilisation: L'homme et les images
Collective contribution to a history of cinema, this issue of the “Civilisations” collection also ta...
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Mireille Darc, la femme libre
On August 28, 2017, Mireille Darc passed away at the age of 79. She was Audiard and Lautner's favori...
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1 P.M.
Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with ...
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Duras/Godard
On December 2, 1987, the filmmaker visited the novelist at her home in Paris. This meeting gave rise...
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Jean-Luc Godard interview by Serge Daney
Jean-Luc Godard interviewed by French Critic Serge Daney at the time when Godard was working on his ...
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Quod Erat Demonstrandum
A collaborator since 2002 (Notre Musique), Fabrice Aragno did not want to make a documentary ‘on’ bu...
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Anna Karina, Remember
Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s. Her...
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Brunes et Blondes
Actresses' hairstyle in movies always carries a strong aesthetic statement associated with erotic, s...
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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what...
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The Lovely Month of May
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulab...
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Accomplice
An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Pos...
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Made in U.S.A
Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and deci...
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Sun in Your Eyes
A love triangle between 23-year-old Emma (Anna Karina), her older boyfriend (Georges Descrières) and...
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The Defector
An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Sovie...
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Godard 1980
The famous French film director Jean-Luc Godard is interviewed by British film theorist Peter Wollen...
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Conversation with JLG
An interview with Jean-Luc Godard by Dominique Maillet and Pierre-Henri Gibert, filmed on August 10,...
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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-ri...
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Printtemps
For Jean-Luc Godard, with all the admiration and affection of Jacques Perconte and Nicole Brenez. ...
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Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
A televisual journey guided by Jean-Luc Godard inside his film Sauve qui peut (la vie), incorporatin...
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Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie'
Notes on the inception and making of Hail Mary....
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Sign of the Lion
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed mo...
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A Flirtatious Woman
Agnès, a bourgeois young woman from Geneva, writes a letter to a friend, telling how she ended up ch...
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Fool’s Mate
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, ...
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Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville on Google StreetView
A short film utilizing Google Maps' StreetView feature where Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville...
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Brève rencontre avec Jean-Luc Godard ou le cinéma comme métaphore
An interview with Jean-Luc Godard around the time of his film Notre Musique....
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Carl Th. Dreyer
A documentary about the famous Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, made a few years before he died...
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Cinema According to Jean-Luc
Rare documentary for French television in which Jean-Luc Godard discusses his films with Jacques Don...
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Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard
A talk with Alexander Kluge and Jean-Luc Godard....
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Death
A voice recycles paintings, films, quotes and archives and guides the viewer into a reflection about...
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Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario"
In October 2021, Jean-Luc Godard presented his idea for Scénario, a 6 chapter feature film combining...
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Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)
Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of ...
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Moving Pictures
"Today memory creeps along the wall at Seven Bleecker. In the back of my eyes, longings and obsessio...
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The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One'
A short film Mike Dibb directed for the BBC in July 1968 in Cowdray Park, where Godard was shooting ...
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For Ever Mozart
Episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Alo...
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To Alter the Image
1981: at the moment the left won power, French television commissioned Godard to make a film on the ...
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Full Metal Kuleshov Effect
The first of two two Videographic essays with critical reflections on representations of the Vietnam...
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The Story of "Scénario"
A final meeting with Jean-Luc Godard. This documentary shows the filmmaker preparing Scénario, his u...
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From Darkness to Light
Explores Jerry Lewis' unreleased 1972 film "The Day the Clown Cried," its mysterious disappearance, ...
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A Weekend at the Beach
Godard to come to the University California, San Diego to give a lecture. He stayed at our house at ...
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Mag Bodard, un destin
Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005....
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Freddy Buache, le cinéma
A documentary film in which Fabrice Aragno assembles a range of footage from the archives of Radio T...
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The Death of Jean-Luc Godard
On September 13, 2022, the death of filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard was reported....
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Fragments of Conversations with Jean-Luc Godard
In his meetings with various different people, Jean-Luc Godard develops his thinking about history, ...
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Black Baby
A black baby attempts to escape a labyrinth whilst being pursued by a gaggle of giant humanoids...
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Parajanov, The Last Collage
Parajanov lifts the curtain on numerous unfinished scenes and fragments of unshot films. These are m...
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Carottage
The “Journal Annales” consists of almost 2.000 hours of video footage collected by filmmaker Lionel ...
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