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 ...

The inarguably true cliché about Jean-Luc Godard was that the late filmmaker, who died this week at the age of 91, was a rule-breaker, an artist whose style changed the course of film history by ...

Halberstadt hopes Nouvelle Vague encourages other young, aspiring filmmakers to take risks and take advantage of “the freedom of being young.” Godard and his crew “had a noisy camera. Today, you have ...

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 ...

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’s career trajectory is like Bob Dylan’s. Both had a string of indisputable masterpieces in the 1960s and a couple in the ’70s. Then they got all weird on us and tumbled from their ...

Kino Lorber has bought all North American distribution rights to Jean-Luc Godard’s final short film “Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars.” The 20-minute short played at this year’s ...

French-Swiss director Jean-Luc Godard – a key figure in the Nouvelle Vague, the filmmaking movement that revolutionized cinema in the late 1950s and 60s – has died aged 91, French media is reporting.