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 ...

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, the defiantly iconoclastic and stylistically adventurous filmmaking giant who rose to prominence as part of the French New Wave movement in the 1960s, has died. He was 91. Godard's ...

Image Credit: Jane Fonda and Jean-Luc Godard (Image: Variety and The New York Times) Jane Fonda is now 85 years old, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard in 2014. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Images) Jean-Luc Godard, the influential ...

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 ...

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 ...

There can be only so many “greatest living filmmakers” roaming the Earth at once. With the death of French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, the world has lost one of the greatest of all time, an ...

Jean-Luc Godard photographed by Patrick Messina in 1996 (used with permission) Jean-Luc Godard, one of the key filmmakers of the French New Wave movement of the 1960s, died today, September 13, at the ...