Jean-Luc Godard’s initial idea for the film “Goodbye to Language,” he said, was a simple one: “It’s about a man and his wife who no longer speak the same language. The dog they take on walks then ...

Jean-Luc Godard intended to give the public what it wanted. His next film was going to be about a girl and a gun—”A sure-fire story which will sell a lot of tickets.” And so, like Henry James’ hero in ...

Jean-Luc Godard, the visionary film director who shaped cinematic history with his provocative contributions to the French New Wave, died on Tuesday at the age of 91. Patrick Jeanneret, Godard’s legal ...

The Godard that matters now, in this wreckage-strewn age of algorithmic filmmaking, is the one who dragged politics into the ...

The nearly complete retrospective of the films and videos of Jean-Luc Godard that is the crown jewel of this year’s New York Film Festival and, for that matter, of movie viewing, began yesterday and ...

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 ...

Film director Jean-Luc Godard, who spearheaded the revolutionary French New Wave of cinema, has died at 91. Godard burst onto the scene with 1960's À bout de souffle (Breathless), which started a run ...

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 ...

Jean-Luc Godard was not a fan of conventional scripts. In line with his avant-garde methods, the French director resisted detailed write-ups and meticulous planning, preferring to hastily draft ...

Jean-Luc Godard died this week at the age of 91, leaving a legacy as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. As a pioneer of the French New Wave, he shook up conventional cinematic style, ...

As he announced with The Artist, writer-director Michel Hazanavicius makes movies about movies. So it was nearly inevitable that he would someday burlesque the work of Jean-Luc Godard, the ...

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 ...