Movies: Jean-Luc Godard

Also punningly known as Ecce Homo; Excès oh! Mot....

A final meeting with Jean-Luc Godard. This documentary shows the filmmaker preparing Scénario, his unfinished testamentary film, before closing with a moving scene: the final appearance of a genius driven to the very end by a love of cinema. Consists...

Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard engages in a sociopolitical debate with French government official Jean St. Geours...

The first woman and the second woman spend a day together. According to their views, they are friends who belong to two different classes. With a non-linear narrative, they provide us with topics of discussion and radical ideas from their daily lives...

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A reworking of extracts from Andre Malraux, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou, and GK Chesterton....

Short film included in the film "Les ponts de Sarajevo"...

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, incl...

This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially Jean-Luc Godard, who discusses Cocteau's foray into cinema. The film documents all the artistic media expl...

Filmed clandestinely in Czechoslovakia on 16mm. It's one of the films Godard made with the Groupe Dziga Vertov - a Marxist film about the political situation after the '68 revolution....

Part 6 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century...

On June 3, 1991, Marguerite Duras gave me her last published work, "The North China Lover", autographed for the first time. She wrote: "For my friend Dominique Auvray, in memory of a wonder of wonders: a still recent past, when we worked together in ...

In French, "scénario" is cinema's name for how it tells stories. This is the title Jean-Luc Godard chose for his final film, which was literally completed the day before his self-death. The two segments of this film open with a series of identical se...

A couple argue loudly during a news broadcast about Palestine as the man shaves. Godard & Gorin, according to the profitable contract signed with the publicity agency Dupuy Compton, from which they had a salary, were forced to propose one project per...

A short essay on the metamorphosis that art, beauty, love or cinema accomplishes....

Collective contribution to a history of cinema, this issue of the “Civilisations” collection also takes part in the genesis of Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle and La Chinoise...

Lesson of October 7, 1978 (class #10). Films discussed : Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925), The Golden Age (Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, 1930), Mr. Deed Goes to Town (Frank Capra, 1936), La chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967). In the vau...

Lila Biro is a remarkable character who witnessed Rossellini in India, played a key role in the cutting of key titles of the French New Wave, and was a close collaborator of the Hungarian émigré painter, Atila Biro. For me, however, she’s also the st...

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This commercial entry directed by veteran Jean-Luc Godard promoting jeans company Marithé et François Girbaud presents a couple appearing on a beach in repeated moments over and over with some variations during their exchange and their dialogues....