A film is like a battleground,” runs a famous line from Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou – which is true when you make them the way Godard often did. The late French-Swiss auteur, whose early career ...

A fun homage to the French filmmaker’s electric-shock debut ‘Breathless’ is warmly nostalgic but far from groundbreaking ...

The Hollywood actor is about to go stratospheric thanks to Nouvelle Vague, a film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s masterpiece. How did she feel about playing the beloved blond gamine in some of ...

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 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 ...

In Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater has recreated the seductive, second-hand smoke-filled Paris of Godard’s landmark film ...

Here’s a pithy pullquote for Godard Mon Amour’s posters and trailers: “Boy, it sure is French!” Its language, of course, is French, as one would expect from a biopic about Jean-Luc Godard and Anne ...

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 ...

The latest brainwave of director Richard Linklater is wonderfully simple: don’t do another remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s debut ...

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 ...

Film genius' Oscar honor gets slimed by anti-Semitism controversy. By Tim Appelo As Oscar controversies go it isn’t the biggest contretemps the Academy has ever seen, but after brewing beneath the ...