Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Weekend premiered just weeks before student and worker protests shut down much of France in May of 1968. Godard, leading a protest that closed the Cannes Film Festival that month, told the crowd that ...

Godard wasn’t right—movies kept going, but I certainly wasn’t the same. Ma fin du cinéma. Overstressed and underslept, I nodded off for a few minutes about three quarters of the way through and awoke ...

Jean-Luc Godard, the influential French New Wave writer-director who broke new ground in cinematic expression in the 1960s with films such as “Breathless,” “Contempt” and “Weekend” and became a ...

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 in 2010. (Photo: The Image Gate via Getty Images) Jean-Luc Godard, one of the world’s most revered film directors, known for his radical techniques and open-ended narrative structures, ...

Given that a mere six months ago, J. Hoberman wrote in these very pages, “From Breathless (1959) through Weekend (1968), [Jean-Luc] Godard reinvented cinema,” what more is there to say about a ...

Adam Grinwald is a Feature Writer at Collider with a lifelong passion for cinema, literature, music, and culture. From the early days of memorizing practically every single line of dialogue off a ...

The greatest filmmaker in the world has died. And that’s a title Jean-Luc Godard has held for a very long time. His influence on cinematic form and language of the past 60 years has been foundational, ...

"Nouvelle Vague," on Netflix Friday, captures the compelling way Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) broke the rules making "Breathless." ...

Call it genius, self-indulgence or sheer creative ebullience, but Jean-Luc Godard makes his movies like a kid with his first camera. He follows where the camera leads rather than vice versa, with the ...

French Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard in 2014. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Images) Jean-Luc Godard, the influential French New Wave writer-director who broke new ground in cinematic ...