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Jean-Luc Godard

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A Bout de SouffleA Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (1959)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger
Godard's landmark first film pulls out all the stops in the style department – with Jean–Paul Belmondo as the romantic fugitive,…
Femme Est Une Femme, UneFemme Est Une Femme, Une (A Woman is a Woman) (1961)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Godard flirts with the Hollywood musical, and any other idea that takes his fancy to tell his buoyant tale of a free–spirited stripper who…
Vivre Sa VieVivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) (1962)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina
While filtered through dir. Godard's preoccupations with genre, this series of twelve vignettes about a Parisian woman's marriage breakup and gradual…
Le MeprisLe Mepris (Contempt) (1963)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang
An insecure screen–writer struggles with vulgar producers as well as his movie–star wife on the set of Homer's Odyssey. Brigitte Bardot,…
Little Soldier, TheLittle Soldier, The (Petit soldat, Le) (1963)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Michel Subor
Unheralded Godard sidebar has Michel Subor attempting to assassinate an Algerian sympathizer – if he can resist the charms of left–winger…
RoGoPaGRoGoPaG (Let's Wash our Brains) (1963)
Dir. Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Orson Welles, Rosanna Schiaffino, Ugo Tognazzi
A curious anthology of four short films each written and directed by three Italian and one French film director; Jean–Luc Godard ("Il Nuovo…
Bande a PartBande a Part (Band of Outsiders) (1964)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey
One of the dir.’s more accessible films follows the carefree criminal adventures of Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey, while still…
Une Femme MarieeUne Femme Mariee (A Married Woman: Fragments of a Film Shot in 1964 in Black and White) (1964)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Bernard Noël, Macha Meril, Philippe Leroy
Key work from the first phase of Godard's career which deconstructs the life of a married woman in a series of complex and humorous portraits. Over a…
AlphavilleAlphaville (1965)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
A private eye is sent to a futuristic city run by a computer to rescue a trapped scientist. Amalgam of film noir and science fiction illustrates the…
Pierrot Le FouPierrot Le Fou (Crazy Pete) (1965)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina
A striking example of the French New Wave. It's kiss, kiss, bang, bang all the way with Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina as maverick intellectual…
Two or Three Things I Know About HerTwo or Three Things I Know About Her (1965)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Joseph Gehrard, Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey
The life of a Parisian prostitute, analysing the likes of women, language, western society as well as cinema itself. Godard's cinematic essay broke…
Paris vu parParis vu par (Six in Paris) (1965)
Dir. Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol
Passionate, parochial anthology of New Wave shorts from six of France's best: Godard, Chabrol and Rohmer headline a concoction of Parisian sketches…
Masculin FemininMasculin Feminin (1966)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Chantal Goya, Brigitte Bardot
Godard steers toward the political with this bittersweet social comment about the Parisian youth culture of '65 through a series of oddly connected…
Made in U.S.AMade in U.S.A (1966)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marianne Faithful
Further political horseplay from Godard in the skin of a Nouvelle Vague alternate reality: this time, Anna Karina plays a war journalist on the hunt…
WeekendWeekend (1967)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
A poetic, stylised and savage vision as only Godard could dream up and/or get away with. Road chaos and carnage is his metaphor for the decline of…
La ChinoiseLa Chinoise (1967)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Anne Wiazemsky, Juliet Berto
Five Parisian students dabble in the possibilities of enacting a Mao–ist revolution in the West, in one of dir. Godard's more overt flirtations…
Ladies of the NightLadies of the Night (Plus vieux métier du monde, Le) (1967)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe de Broca, Claude Autant-Lara
Feat. Anna Karina, Elsa Martinelli, Jeanne Moreau
A six–segment portmanteau comedy which traces the history of prostitution from its Stone Age version (being the 'oldest profession') through to…
Far from VietnamFar from Vietnam (1967)
Dir. Agnes Varda, Joris Ivens, William Klein
Feat. Anne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon, Bernard Fresson
A documentary essay film with seven segments each directed by seven French New Wave directors, who express their opposition to the Vietnam War and…
Le Gai SavoirLe Gai Savoir (Joy Of Learning) (1969)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Leaud
Challenging offering from dir. Godard puts two actors on a soundstage and allows them to dwell on ideologies, concepts and complex understandings of…
One Plus OneOne Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) (1970)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Controversial work from dir. Godard's 'Mao–ist' period intercuts a fascinating, disorganised recording session by the Rolling Stones…
Tout Va BienTout Va Bien (Everything’s All Right) (1972)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
Feat. Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Anita Caprioli
Radical political drama from Nouvelle Vague luminary Jean Luc–Godard and frequent collaborator Jean–Pierre Gorin, set during a wildcat…
PassionPassion (1982)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
'Film within a film' from France's thorniest director, sowing narrative confusion in his story of director Michel Piccoli trying to make a arthouse…
First Name: CarmenFirst Name: Carmen (Prenom Carmen) (1983)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffe
Late Godard standout is a markedly nostalgic throwback to his New Wavy years, combining an ad hoc terrorist, ill–fated romance, a…
Hail MaryHail Mary (1985)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Juliette Binoche
Controversial and ultimately reverent update on the story of the immaculate conception, with Mary as a gas station attendant and Joseph as her cab…
Detective, TheDetective, The (1985)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Johnny Hallyday
Late, vague genre piece mismatches big name French stars (Baye, Leaud, and a young Julie Delpy) and trench coat chic with Godard’s newfound…
Histoire(s) Du CinemaHistoire(s) Du Cinema (1988-1998)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Grizzly bastion of art cinema and all things French, Jean–Luc Godard, delivers a personal visual essay on the state of the medium. His…
Oh, Woe is MeOh, Woe is Me (Helas Pour Moi) (1993)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Gerard Depardieu
Gerard Depardieu is the most accessible thing on offer in Godard's latest enigma, a film that's controlling idea is perhaps 'the desire of a God to…
Century of Cinema - France / Germany / ScandinaviaCentury of Cinema - France / Germany / Scandinavia (1997)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Edgar Reitz, Stig Bjorkman
French entry is a typically obtuse, subversive essay by iconoclast Jean–Luc Godard, questioning the validity of celebrating cinema. The Germans…
In Praise of LoveIn Praise of Love (Eloge de L'amour) (2001)
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Bruno Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Jean Davy
Dir. Godard’s first major film in over a decade presents intellect and filmmaking in full–flight, while stubbornly refusing to provide a…
Two in the WaveTwo in the Wave (2009) Recommended
Dir. Emmanuel Laurent
Feat. Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Leaud
Taking us back to the inception of the French New Wave and the emergence of its two heavyweights, Jean–Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, this…

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