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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement and was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era.

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Movies Starring Jean-Luc Godard (182)

Lovers (2024)

A short film that endeavors to capture & portray the love between iconic couples Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg, & Anna Karina & Jean-Luc Godard. ...

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For Jack, From Hell (2024)

A monologue about Jack The Ripper and his heritage. ...

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Scénarios (2024)

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 sequenc ...

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Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario" (2024)

In October 2021, Jean-Luc Godard presented his idea for Scénario, a 6 chapter feature film combining still and moving images, halfway between reading and seeing. ...

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Only Godard (2024)

How do you craft the portrait of Jean-Luc Godard, or better yet a portrait of his methodology, his universe, his way of constructing or deconstructing cinema, that is equal to his own cinematic audacity and genius? How could it be anything other than by ta ...

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Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars (2023)

Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by re-turning to the locations of past film shoots, while keeping track of modern times. ...

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The Staircase Wall (2023)

An experiment in activity, dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard and assembled in the immediate wake of his death on September 13, 2022. The only known footage of Marcel Proust is repeated through a sequence of digital abstractions and accompanied by the music of G ...

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Say God Bye (2023)

Fascinated by the already legendary filmmaker, as a teenager Thomas dreamed of becoming his assistant. He wrote to JLG and asked him if he could "look over his shoulder" while he is at work. JLG never answered. Rejected by the master, the teenager must no ...

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Godard Cinema (2023)

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most ...

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Godard by Godard (2023)

Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard-of path, made up of sudden detours and dramatic returns, of a filmmaker who never looks back on his past, never makes the same film twice, and tirelessly p ...

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Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma (2023)

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music ...

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Godard Is Here (2023)

The film is a record of interviews of Godard's films by two young aspiring directors, a Korean and a French, visiting Godard's studio in 2002. It consists of questions and answers about the way of cinematically thinking, working method, and filmmaking of G ...

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Full Metal Kuleshov Effect (2023)

The first of two two Videographic essays with critical reflections on representations of the Vietnam War. "Full Metal Kuleshov Effect," counterposes the work of Stanley Kubrick with that of Santiago Alvarez and the Vietnamese director Hai Ninh. ...

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See You Friday, Robinson (2022)

"We should start with a correspondence, maybe we will not correspond to one another. Ebrahim can send me a letter this Friday, and I'll answer him next Friday. So, see you Friday, Robinson!" And so, Jean-Luc Godard stages himself in his daily thought, wise ...

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Alianças Profanas (2022)

During the quarantine promoted by the Coronavirus, hundreds of videos posted on Darwin's personal Instagram become a biased diary of our time, of the last 10 years and, at the same time, a deep dive into his being, a dive for those who see and for those wh ...

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The Sparks Brothers (2021)

Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band's favorite band. ...

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Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte (2021)

1951. André Bazin and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze founded "Cahiers du cinéma". With contributions from self-taught filmmakers (Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Éric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette...), the magazine revolutionized film criticism ...

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Printtemps (2020)

For Jean-Luc Godard, with all the admiration and affection of Jacques Perconte and Nicole Brenez. December 3, 2020. ...

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Anna and the Jellyfish (2020)

A short film by Joel Nguyen, made for his mother. ...

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Anna and the Jellyfish (2020)

A short film by Joel Nguyen, made for his mother. ...

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Anna Karina, Remember (2020)

Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s. Her companion in life, Dennis Berry revisits the story of her memories with Jean-Luc Godard and the great directors she knew, her memorable meeting with Serge ...

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Iter (2020)

A Jean-Luc Godard course in Nanterre Amandiers. ...

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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure (2018)

This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy. ...

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Film catastrophe (2018)

In 2010, Godard's Film Socialisme explores the sinking of political ideals in Europe. In 2012, the Costa Concordia, which had served as an allegorical platform for Godard, sank in front of the cameras of passengers and the world. ...

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The Image Book (2018)

In Le Livre d'Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the ...

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Spot of the 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF (2018)

The author of the official spot of the 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF 2018 is the renowned Swiss/French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard. ...

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Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville on Google StreetView (2018)

A short film utilizing Google Maps' StreetView feature where Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville are captured walking the streets of Switzerland. Set to music from Godard's film "Contempt" composed by Georges Delerue. ...

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Belmondo, le magnifique (2017)

With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of the essential stars of French cinema. ...

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Faces Places (2017)

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship. ...

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Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture (2016)

An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud. ...

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Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book "Hitchcock/Truffaut" ("Le cinéma selon Hitchcock"), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966. ...

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Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive (2015)

Jean-Luc Godard's acceptance video for the 2015 'Prix d'honneur'. ...

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A German Youth (2015)

At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalism and a state apparatus in which they believed they saw fascist tendencies. This generation included journ ...

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Goodbye to Language (2014)

The idea is simple / A married woman and a single man meet / They love, they argue, fists fly / A dog strays between town and country / The seasons pass / The man and woman meet again / The dog finds itself between them / The other is in one, / the one is ...

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Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux (2014)

Rather than writing a simple letter to explain his absence from the press conference for his latest Cannes entry, "Goodbye to Language," at the Cannes Film Festival, instead, legendary filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard created a video "Letter in motion to (Cannes ...

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The Three Disasters (2013)

Short film originally made as part of the anthology film, 3x3D. Jean-Luc Godard's first 3-D film interrogates the history of the technology and explores its possibilities. ...

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Quod Erat Demonstrandum (2012)

A collaborator since 2002 (Notre Musique), Fabrice Aragno did not want to make a documentary 'on' but 'with' Jean-Luc Godard. The latter decided on a mathematical approach. The TV station asked for 26 minutes, and so Godard suggested they make 26 one-minut ...

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Close Up (2012)

More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in ...

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Jean-Luc Godard, Disorder Exposed (2012)

The film retraces Jean-Luc Godard's notorious exhibition at the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou in Paris between 11 May – 14 August 2006. ...

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La rouge et la noire (2011)

Carrying on Luc Moullets unfinished screenplay about the theft of la pénélope, a camera created by Aaton and capable of recording equally well in 35 mm and digitally, LA ROUGE ET LA NOIRE is a film in kaleidoscope form. The portrait of Aatons founder, Je ...

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Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard: The Meeting in St-Gervais (2011)

In 2009, in a small theater in Geneva, Switzerland, the film directors Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard met for an unusual, surprisngly intimate and sometimes contentious dialogue with each other in front of a live audience. Luckily for us, it was filmed. ...

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Godard Made in USA (2010)

Documentary by Luc Lagier exploring Godard's career as a filmmaker, the production of Breathless and his influence and his relationship with American cinema. ...

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Conversation with JLG (2010)

An interview with Jean-Luc Godard by Dominique Maillet and Pierre-Henri Gibert, filmed on August 10, 2010 at the Hôtel de Vendôme in Paris. ...

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Brunes et Blondes (2010)

Actresses' hairstyle in movies always carries a strong aesthetic statement associated with erotic, social, and historical meanings. In a bold and unexpected way, the film revisits this ultimate symbol of femininity in international cinema. ...

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Memória Cubana (2010)

Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half of the 20th century as seen by the documentary filmmakers of the island. During three decades and under the ...

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Two in the Wave (2010)

An in-depth analysis of the relationship between New Wave pioneers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, as seen through rare archival footage, interviews, and film excerpts — written and narrated by former Cahiers du Cinéma editor Antoine de Baecque. ...

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Accomplice (2010)

An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it. ...

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Tribute to Eric Rohmer (2010)

Brief, fragmented memories of Rohmer spoken by Godard, while the screen shows various titles of articles Rohmer wrote for Cahiers du Cinema. ...

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Once Upon a Time… Contempt (2009)

Fourty-six years since the release of Le mépris, Jean-Luc Godard watches the film again to comment on it and its tumultuous production. Featuring interviews with: Jacques Rozier, Alain Bergala, Michel Piccoli, Charles Bitsch. ...

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JLG\PG (2009)

A movie about the contempt of the man who recorded the contempt. ...

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Back to Room 666 (2008)

What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many movie makers to answer this question. 26 years later, the question remains, but Wenders is now on the other side of the camera. ...

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Filmmakers in Action (2006)

What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to "Filmmakers vs. Tycoons. ...

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Vrai faux passeport (2006)

A dense work, citing everyone from Tarantino and Verhoeven to Artaud and Chaplin, made for Godard's exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Voyage(s) en utopie. ...

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Amateur Report (Exhibition Model) (2006)

Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art. ...

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Four Short Films (2006)

Jean-Luc Godard, and Anne-Marie Miéville Four Short Films ...

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Ecce Homo (2006)

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

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I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth (2005)

Contemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964 Cuban/Soviet coproduction marked a watershed moment of cultural collaboration between two nations. Yet the film never found a mass audience, languishing for decades ...

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Brève rencontre avec Jean-Luc Godard ou le cinéma comme métaphore (2005)

An interview with Jean-Luc Godard around the time of his film Notre Musique. ...

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Notre Musique (2004)

A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war itself. ...

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The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin (2004)

This documentary reunites director Peter Lennon and cinematographer Raoul Coutard, who recount the making of their then controversial but now classic documentary on Ireland in the Sixties. Rocky Road to Dublin was screened for only a few weeks at a single ...

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Marguerite as She Was (2003)

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 the ci ...

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Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard (2001)

A talk with Alexander Kluge and Jean-Luc Godard. ...

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After the Reconciliation (2000)

An elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with conversation about love and the meaning of life. ...

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Godard on TV: 1960-2000 (1999)

A compilation of the most spectacular TV moments thanks to the presence and evocation of Jean-Luc Godard on the small screen. Godard's presence has never been, and never will be, anodyne or banal. The subversion of everyday television. ...

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Adieu au TNS (1998)

In 1998, Jean-Luc Godard made a short video entitled Adieu au TNS (Farewell to the TNS). Never released (or intended to be), the video is nearly impossible to see and has not been included in any Godard retrospectives to date. ...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us (1998)

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

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe (1998)

Part 7 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century. ...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave (1998)

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

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute (1998)

Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century. ...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema (1997)

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music ...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty (1997)

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music ...

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We're All Still Here (1997)

Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue between Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work. The husband of one of them rehearses his part in a theatrical play, reading a 20th century philosophical text about totalitari ...

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Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths (1997)

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 explored b ...

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For Ever Mozart (1996)

Episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France. ...

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What's Wrong With The World (1996)

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

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2 x 50 Years of French Cinema (1995)

At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests Goda ...

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JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December (1995)

Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art. ...

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Carl Th. Dreyer und Gertrud (1994)

Documentary about Carl Theodor Dreyer and his film Gertrud. ...

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The Children Play Russian (1993)

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the project by stubbornly remaining in France and casting himself as the title character of Dostoye ...

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Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède (1993)

Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room twelve in the hotel's final week of operation: it is demolished the day after he checks out. Room twelve was one of t ...

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Hail, Sarajevo (1993)

A short two-minute rumination on the once volatile situation during the period of the Bosnian War presented in the form of a photo-montage with accompanying text. ...

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Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave (1992)

An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the movement with insight on the lives and works of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other principal pl ...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story (1989)

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music ...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories (1989)

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music ...

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The Darty Report (1989)

A daring deconstruction of consumerist behavior featuring a robot and Miss Clio Darty, with a voiceover by Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, this philosophical "report," like so many of Godard's commissions, was rejected by its funders. ...

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King Lear (1988)

A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization. ...

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Jean-Luc Godard interview by Serge Daney (1988)

Jean-Luc Godard interviewed by French Critic Serge Daney at the time when Godard was working on his project "Histoire(s) du cinéma". ...

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Keep Your Right Up (1987)

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of ...

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Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986)

Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he's still looking at the fundraising and casting stage of the process. He calls upon Jean Almereyda, a once-fashionable producer who is now going through a bad patch, finding it increasingl ...

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Routine Pleasures (1986)

Jean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor, artist/writer Manny Farber. ...

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Meetin' WA (1986)

Revolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with influential and acclaimed American director Woody Allen on the cultural radiation, the ubiquity and significance of Television, and how Television compares ...

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September September (1986)

"[This film] embodies (...) one of his [Hahnemann's] most mature films. Rainy rides along Schönhauser Allee, which seems to be depopulated. Past the 'Viennese Café', the meeting place par excellence. From a moving train the view of idyllic landscapes, on ...

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Soft and Hard (1985)

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house. ...

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Godard / Sollers : L’entretien (1985)

Jean-Luc Godard and Philippe Sollers meet in Paris to discuss Godard's film Je vous salue, Marie, and many other things. ...

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Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française (1985)

After offering spectators a projection/comparison of extracts from 17 films (each time, the first 5 minutes of their second reel) entitled "Une histoire A/B du cinéma" (A/B history of cinema), Jean-Luc Godard becomes a film historian, reflecting live and ...

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First Name: Carmen (1983)

The protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the robber ...

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A Letter to Freddy Buache (1983)

This short film is Godard's message to the people of Lausanne, specifically journalist and critic Freddy Buache, addressing his reasons why he will not make a film about their town's 500th anniversary. Rather than cynical or defensive, Godard's bemused nar ...

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Godard: History: Passion (1983)

A 1983 film for Channel Four's Visions, featuring interviews about the impact of Godard of British filmmakers and critics. ...

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Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie' (1983)

Notes on the inception and making of Hail Mary. ...

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Room 666 (1982)

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the camera and answer a simple question: "What is the future of cinema? ...

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To Alter the Image (1982)

1981: at the moment the left won power, French television commissioned Godard to make a film on the theme of change. Like Lettre à Freddy Buache, this film is born of the impossibility of carrying out the commission. For the space where change appears is ...

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Scénario du film Passion (1982)

Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. "I didn't want to write the script," he states, "I wanted to see it." Positioning himself in a video editing suite in front of a w ...

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Reporters (1981)

The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photographers in Paris and their subjects by following the photographers around for one month, in October, 1980. In-between long hours waiting for a celebrity to ...

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Cinématon XI (1981)

Reel 11 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

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Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie)) (1981)

A televisual journey guided by Jean-Luc Godard inside his film Sauve qui peut (la vie), incorporating filmed conversations between him and Isabelle Huppert and the film critic Christian Defaye. ...

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Godard 1980 (1980)

The famous French film director Jean-Luc Godard is interviewed by British film theorist Peter Wollen and the editor of Framework Don Ranveaud. He talks of the developments in his work, the change in style epitomized by his most recent film, Sauve Qui Peut, ...

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ORG (1979)

Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend ...

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France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children (1979)

In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contem ...

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Cinématon (1978)

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 ...

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Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 11 (1978)

Lesson of October 13, 1978 (course #11). Films discussed: Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931), Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948), The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963), Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967). In the vaults of Concordia University's Visual Coll ...

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Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 10 (1978)

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 vaults o ...

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Little Godard (1978)

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise fu ...

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How's It Going? (1978)

During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist activist discuss how to present their information, especially how to caption two specific images: one of a protest in Portugal, the other of a strike in France ...

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Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 1 (1978)

Lesson of April 14, 1978 (class #1) Films discussed: Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger, 1945), Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1958). In the vaults of Concordia University's Visual Collections Repository department slept some 30 ½-inch black-and-white video open ...

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Here and Elsewhere (1976)

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home. Originally shot by the Dziga Vertov Group as a film on Palestinian freedom fighters, Godard later reworked the mater ...

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Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication (1976)

The title and subtitle of this French miniseries are "Six Times Two; Over and under the media". The "six" refers to the fact that there are six episodes; the "two" has a double meaning. ...

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Number Two (1975)

Jean-Luc Godard mixes video and film in his Grenoble studio, discussing how he secured funding for the film. The action unfolds on two monitors, as a young working-class couple lives in a claustrophobic, high-rise apartment complex and marital discord is s ...

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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1974)

The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was stage ...

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1 P.M. (1971)

Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was meant to be One A.M., as in "one American movie"; but Godard quit the project and the U.S., where to his di ...

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Vladimir and Rosa (1971)

Jean-Luc Godard's and Jean-Pierre Gorin's interpretation of the Chicago Eight / Chicago Seven trial, which followed the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activities. Judge Hoffman becomes the character Judge Himmler (played by Ernest Menzer) and ...

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Wind from the East (1970)

A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema. ...

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Godard in America (1970)

Spring 1970: Godard and Gorin, on the road, visiting colleges, speaking with Andrew Sarris, and explaining, through illustrated notebooks, their newest Dziga Vertov Group project, a film on Palestine. ...

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Le Gai Savoir (1969)

Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along wi ...

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Willing (1969)

A young, unscrupulous director hires an actress and uses the story she tells him of her life to write his screenplay, but fires her and entrusts the leading role to someone else. ...

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Voices (1969)

Documentary about Jean-Luc Godard filming Sympathy for the Devil with The Rolling Stones. ...

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One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks (1968)

Short film, going behind-the-scenes of shooting for One Plus One (1968) in London, featuring an interview with Godard sitting beside a tree. Many crew members from this shoot were then borrowed by him, playing the press in the film's Eve Democracy sequence ...

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Françoise et Udo... (1968)

This is the story of a meeting between a man and a woman. In a train, an Austrian singer and a French teacher exchange on their past, their character, and fall in love. Their journey is made in music. ...

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Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making (1968)

Jean-Luc Godard visits NYU in order to discuss his latest feature "La chinoise" with graduate students on filmmaking and politics. ...

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Far from Vietnam (1967)

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War. ...

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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills. ...

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The Dinosaur and the Baby (1967)

An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaboration together, and much more. (Filmed in 1964 but released for TV in 1967. ...

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Made in U.S.A (1967)

Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis ...

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Civilisation: L'homme et les images (1967)

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 ...

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Carl Th. Dreyer (1966)

A documentary about the famous Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, made a few years before he died. In this film Dreyer tells about the style in his feature films and about the important things in film making: the script and the casting. He tells about h ...

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Zoom: Jean-Luc Godard, 1966 (1966)

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

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The Defector (1966)

An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West but the Stasi secret police's surveillance complicates matters. ...

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Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson (1966)

A documentary, originally produced in 1966 for the French TV series "Pour le plaisir," about Robert Bresson's film "Au Hasard Balthazar," featuring interviews and discussions with Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, Marguerite Duras and others. ...

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Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965 (1965)

Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is interviewed, along with actor Anna Karina and director Jean-Luc Godard, during the filming of 'Pierrot le Fou'. ...

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The Married Woman (1964)

A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover. ...

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Paparazzi (1964)

Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the p ...

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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris ...

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Band of Outsiders (1964)

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps ...

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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même (1964)

Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Jean ...

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Bardot et Godard (1964)

A documentary short following director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Contempt. ...

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Contempt (1963)

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined ...

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Scheherazade (1963)

Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero. ...

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The Lovely Month of May (1963)

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom. ...

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Le Petit Soldat (1963)

In 1958, during the Algerian War, Bruno Forestier, a young man belonging to a far-right group fighting against the Algerian resistance, arrives from France in Geneva. As a cover for deserting the French army, he is given a job as a photographer. The group' ...

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Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution. ...

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Sun in Your Eyes (1962)

A love triangle between 23-year-old Emma (Anna Karina), her older boyfriend (Georges Descrières) and the younger man (Jacques Perrin) she meets while on vacation by herself. ...

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Sign of the Lion (1962)

An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope. ...

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Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid véri ...

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Fiancés on the Bridge (1962)

A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the ...

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Paris Belongs to Us (1961)

A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger. ...

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A Story of Water (1961)

A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water. ...

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Breathless (1960)

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him. ...

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The 400 Blows (1959)

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of th ...

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Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)

This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his constant barrage of speech; the woman doesn't say much. She just mocks the man and pretends she isn't listening. She pulls faces at him and larks about; wh ...

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Operation Concrete (1958)

Godard returned to Paris briefly before getting a job as a construction worker on a dam project in Switzerland. With the money from the job, he made a short film about the building of the dam called Opération béton (Operation Concrete). ...

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Fool’s Mate (1956)

Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his ...

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The Kreutzer Sonata (1956)

Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his wife plays regularly the "Sonata to Kreutzer" appears, the young woman blooms in a new passion. From then on, ...

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A Flirtatious Woman (1955)

Agnès, a bourgeois young woman from Geneva, writes a letter to a friend, telling how she ended up cheating on her husband. Fascinated by the attitudes and gestures adopted by a prostitute to attract clients, Agnès decides to imitate her and seduces the f ...

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Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (1951)

On a snowy day in a Swiss village, Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to spark jealousy. Later, at Charlotte's home, tensions rise as they discuss beauty, attraction, and honesty. Despite initial resistance, emotions take over, leading to an unex ...

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The Glass Castle (1950)

Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy. ...

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The Quadrille (1950)

Though Godard got a little money from his family, he admitted that the money that went into Rivette's film came from stealing and selling books from his grandfather Monod's "Valérianum". The film featured four actors: two women and two men, one of them Go ...

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Movies Made By Jean-Luc Godard (144)

Scénarios (2024)

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 sequenc ...

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Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario" (2024)

In October 2021, Jean-Luc Godard presented his idea for Scénario, a 6 chapter feature film combining still and moving images, halfway between reading and seeing. ...

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Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars (2023)

Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by re-turning to the locations of past film shoots, while keeping track of modern times. ...

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Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma (2023)

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music ...

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Sang titre (2020)

A special version of 'Dans le noir du temps' for viewers in Ramallah and the Gaza Strip. ...

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The Image Book (2018)

In Le Livre d'Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the association or opposition of ideas, the ...

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Spot of the 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF (2018)

The author of the official spot of the 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF 2018 is the renowned Swiss/French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard. ...

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Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive (2015)

Jean-Luc Godard's acceptance video for the 2015 'Prix d'honneur'. ...

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Goodbye to Language (2014)

The idea is simple / A married woman and a single man meet / They love, they argue, fists fly / A dog strays between town and country / The seasons pass / The man and woman meet again / The dog finds itself between them / The other is in one, / the one is ...

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The Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)

Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins offer exc ...

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Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux (2014)

Rather than writing a simple letter to explain his absence from the press conference for his latest Cannes entry, "Goodbye to Language," at the Cannes Film Festival, instead, legendary filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard created a video "Letter in motion to (Cannes ...

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Le Pont des soupirs (2014)

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

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The Three Disasters (2013)

Short film originally made as part of the anthology film, 3x3D. Jean-Luc Godard's first 3-D film interrogates the history of the technology and explores its possibilities. ...

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3x3D (2013)

A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway. ...

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Quod Erat Demonstrandum (2012)

A collaborator since 2002 (Notre Musique), Fabrice Aragno did not want to make a documentary 'on' but 'with' Jean-Luc Godard. The latter decided on a mathematical approach. The TV station asked for 26 minutes, and so Godard suggested they make 26 one-minut ...

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20 Little Films (2012)

Each year since 1995, the Viennale has asked a great, international director to make his or her own personal contribution to the festival: a contribution in the form of a small, approximately one-minute film, which is used as a kind of introduction to the ...

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Film Socialisme (2010)

A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their par ...

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Tribute to Eric Rohmer (2010)

Brief, fragmented memories of Rohmer spoken by Godard, while the screen shows various titles of articles Rohmer wrote for Cahiers du Cinema. ...

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Journal des réalisateurs (2008)

A collage made from fragments. ...

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Une catastrophe (2008)

A short film made up of four film clips from the 20th Century. Trailer for the 2008 edition of the Vienna International Film Festival. ...

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Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) (2006)

A collection of short films by 16 European directors. ...

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Vrai faux passeport (2006)

A dense work, citing everyone from Tarantino and Verhoeven to Artaud and Chaplin, made for Godard's exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Voyage(s) en utopie. ...

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Amateur Report (Exhibition Model) (2006)

Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art. ...

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Four Short Films (2006)

Jean-Luc Godard, and Anne-Marie Miéville Four Short Films ...

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Ecce Homo (2006)

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

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Notre Musique (2004)

A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war itself. ...

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Prayers for Refuseniks (2004)

Jean-Luc Godard addresses two filmic letters to young Israeli soldiers who were sentenced after refusing to intervene in the occupied territories. ...

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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and ...

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In the Darkness of Time (2002)

Conceived as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the millennium, "Dans le noir du temps" functions as a Pandora's box which hides all the horrors of the world: the last moments of youth, fame, thoughts, memory, love, silence, history, fear, et ...

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Liberty and Homeland (2002)

The title of this twenty-minute video by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, "Freedom and Fatherland," is the official slogan of the Canton de Vaud, in Switzerland, where the filmmakers live and grew up. To fulfill their commission from a Swiss cultu ...

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In Praise of Love (2001)

Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We d ...

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The Old Place (2000)

Essay on the influence of arts at the end of the 20th century produced by the Museum of Modern Art. ...

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Origins of the 21st Century (2000)

Commissioned by the heads of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival to make an opening-night short commemorating cinema as it enters its second full century, Godard instead offers up a 17-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wars and Nazi atrocities, interspersed ...

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Adieu au TNS (1998)

In 1998, Jean-Luc Godard made a short video entitled Adieu au TNS (Farewell to the TNS). Never released (or intended to be), the video is nearly impossible to see and has not been included in any Godard retrospectives to date. ...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us (1998)

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

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe (1998)

Part 7 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century. ...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave (1998)

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

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute (1998)

Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century. ...

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Inside/Out (1997)

Against the barren wintry backdrop of a psychiatric hospital, inpatients and authority figures drift through turgid psychological states. We meet the artist Jean and his lover Monica, patients of the facility, and several characters circling its periphery: ...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema (1997)

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music ...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty (1997)

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music ...

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For Ever Mozart (1996)

Episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are captured and held in a POW camp, and they call for help from their friends and relations in France. ...

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Plus oh ! (1996)

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

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Hope/Microcosmos (1996)

Experimental short. ...

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What's Wrong With The World (1996)

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

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2 x 50 Years of French Cinema (1995)

At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests Goda ...

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JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December (1995)

Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art. ...

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How Are The Kids? (1993)

A UNICEF-sponsored six-film anthology depicting childhood horrors around the world. "Hassane" - a malnourished child in Niger needs help from the doctors, but village traditions prohibit it. "Liouba" - a child escapes to the forest after a beating by his a ...

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Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)

This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man's quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behavi ...

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The Children Play Russian (1993)

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the project by stubbornly remaining in France and casting himself as the title character of Dostoye ...

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Hail, Sarajevo (1993)

A short two-minute rumination on the once volatile situation during the period of the Bosnian War presented in the form of a photo-montage with accompanying text. ...

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Antigone (1992)

A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him. ...

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L'Enfance de l'art (1992)

Children living and playing in a war zone are touched by violence. Part of How Are the Kids? (1990), a UNICEF-sponsored six-film anthology depicting childhood horrors around the world. ...

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Against Oblivion (1991)

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of T ...

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The King of Ads (1991)

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot. ...

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Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)

The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the former East Germany to "the west. ...

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For Thomas Wainggai (1991)

A video letter composed for Amnesty International's 'Lest We Forget' series. ...

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Nouvelle Vague (1990)

Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies, bu ...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story (1989)

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music ...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories (1989)

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music ...

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The Darty Report (1989)

A daring deconstruction of consumerist behavior featuring a robot and Miss Clio Darty, with a voiceover by Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, this philosophical "report," like so many of Godard's commissions, was rejected by its funders. ...

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The Power of Speech (1988)

Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many different contexts, sometimes bearing a similar significance to the ori ...

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The French as Seen by… (1988)

In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary. Includes: Werner Herzog's Les Gaulois, David Lynch's The C ...

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On s'est tous défilé (1988)

A rare short done in much of the same vein of "Puissance de la Parole", where there is no shortage of cross-dissolve and rapid montage effects. Here, the sources are between fashion clips, street footage, and a number of paintings, to which Godard narrates ...

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Le Dernier Mot (1988)

A short commissioned piece on 'famous last words' set in WWII. ...

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King Lear (1988)

A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization. ...

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Jean-Luc Godard interview by Serge Daney (1988)

Jean-Luc Godard interviewed by French Critic Serge Daney at the time when Godard was working on his project "Histoire(s) du cinéma". ...

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Closed (1988)

Second series of commercial spots made for Marithé and François Girbaud. ...

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Keep Your Right Up (1987)

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of ...

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Aria (1987)

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria. ...

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Armide (1987)

In 1986, the director and producer Don Boyd approached ten of the world's greatest directors and invited them to make a short film set to an operatic aria of their choice. Together, their contributions formed the movie 'Aria'. ...

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Closed Jeans (1987)

First series of commercial spots made for Marithé and François Girbaud. ...

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Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986)

Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he's still looking at the fundraising and casting stage of the process. He calls upon Jean Almereyda, a once-fashionable producer who is now going through a bad patch, finding it increasingl ...

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Meetin' WA (1986)

Revolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with influential and acclaimed American director Woody Allen on the cultural radiation, the ubiquity and significance of Television, and how Television compares ...

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Detective (1985)

Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that ...

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Soft and Hard (1985)

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house. ...

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Hail Mary (1985)

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways. ...

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First Name: Carmen (1983)

The protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the robber ...

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A Letter to Freddy Buache (1983)

This short film is Godard's message to the people of Lausanne, specifically journalist and critic Freddy Buache, addressing his reasons why he will not make a film about their town's 500th anniversary. Rather than cynical or defensive, Godard's bemused nar ...

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Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie' (1983)

Notes on the inception and making of Hail Mary. ...

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Godard's Passion (1982)

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities. ...

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To Alter the Image (1982)

1981: at the moment the left won power, French television commissioned Godard to make a film on the theme of change. Like Lettre à Freddy Buache, this film is born of the impossibility of carrying out the commission. For the space where change appears is ...

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Scénario du film Passion (1982)

Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. "I didn't want to write the script," he states, "I wanted to see it." Positioning himself in a video editing suite in front of a w ...

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Sauve la vie (qui peut) (1981)

Godard experimental film with montages combining "Sauve qui peut (la vie) and other films by other filmmakers ...

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Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie)) (1981)

A televisual journey guided by Jean-Luc Godard inside his film Sauve qui peut (la vie), incorporating filmed conversations between him and Isabelle Huppert and the film critic Christian Defaye. ...

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An All Round Maid (1981)

A video derived from footage Godard kept from his 1981 visit to Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios at the time he was making Passion. ...

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Every Man for Himself (1980)

A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker. ...

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Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie' (1979)

Jean-Luc Godard proposes a diary of his creative process. Looking at photos of three actors, Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, and Miou-Miou, who were previously cast to play in "Sauve qui peut (la vie)," Godard speaks about great image makers: Dreyer and ...

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France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children (1979)

In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contem ...

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How's It Going? (1978)

During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist activist discuss how to present their information, especially how to caption two specific images: one of a protest in Portugal, the other of a strike in France ...

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Dream On (1977)

An anti-music video for a Patrick Juvet song. ...

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Here and Elsewhere (1976)

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home. Originally shot by the Dziga Vertov Group as a film on Palestinian freedom fighters, Godard later reworked the mater ...

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Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication (1976)

The title and subtitle of this French miniseries are "Six Times Two; Over and under the media". The "six" refers to the fact that there are six episodes; the "two" has a double meaning. ...

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Number Two (1975)

Jean-Luc Godard mixes video and film in his Grenoble studio, discussing how he secured funding for the film. The action unfolds on two monitors, as a young working-class couple lives in a claustrophobic, high-rise apartment complex and marital discord is s ...

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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1974)

The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was stage ...

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Tout Va Bien (1972)

A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife. ...

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1 P.M. (1971)

Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was meant to be One A.M., as in "one American movie"; but Godard quit the project and the U.S., where to his di ...

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Struggle in Italy (1971)

The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology. ...

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Vladimir and Rosa (1971)

Jean-Luc Godard's and Jean-Pierre Gorin's interpretation of the Chicago Eight / Chicago Seven trial, which followed the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activities. Judge Hoffman becomes the character Judge Himmler (played by Ernest Menzer) and ...

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Wind from the East (1970)

A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema. ...

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British Sounds (1970)

Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a montage of various disconnected political acts (in line with Godard's then appropriation of Soviet director ...

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Pravda (1970)

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. ...

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Le Gai Savoir (1969)

Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along wi ...

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Love and Anger (1969)

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in ...

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Love and Anger: Love (1969)

Godard dissects movie romance as row intellectuals watch an Italian-speaking man and his French-speaking partner talk about love. ...

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Sympathy for the Devil (1968)

While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes. ...

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A Film Like Any Other (1968)

An analysis of the social upheaval of May 1968, made in the immediate wake of the workers' and students' protests. The picture consists of two parts, each with with identical image tracks, and differing narration. ...

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Film-Tract n° 1968 (1968)

In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, Le Rouge, in collaboration with French artist Gérard Fromanger. Starting with the shot identifying its title written in red paint on the Le Monde for 31 Ju ...

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Cinétracts (1968)

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, including ...

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Weekend (1967)

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations. ...

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Far from Vietnam (1967)

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War. ...

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La Chinoise (1967)

Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume and Veronique, form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the st ...

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The Oldest Profession (1967)

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages. ...

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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills. ...

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Made in U.S.A (1967)

Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis ...

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Masculin Féminin (1966)

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in so ...

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Pierrot le Fou (1965)

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run. ...

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Six in Paris (1965)

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohme ...

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Alphaville (1965)

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist's daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and te ...

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Montparnasse et Levallois (1965)

A Canadian woman with two working class boyfriends writes letters to them, breaking off with one of them while professing her love for the other, but fears that she mixed up the letters. ...

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The Married Woman (1964)

A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover. ...

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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris ...

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Le Grand Escroc (1964)

Patricia Leacock, reporter for an american television, is in Morocco on the trail of a counterfeiter-philanthropist. Based on a real story which Chaplin had already thought to adapt into a film. ...

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Band of Outsiders (1964)

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps ...

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Contempt (1963)

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined ...

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The Carabineers (1963)

During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits. ...

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Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life. ...

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The New World (1963)

This short film shows a young couple during a short period after the explosion of a nuclear bomb 120 km above Paris. The city appears unaffected, but the man begins to notice changes in the behavior of the people in general and in that of his girl friend i ...

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Le Petit Soldat (1963)

In 1958, during the Algerian War, Bruno Forestier, a young man belonging to a far-right group fighting against the Algerian resistance, arrives from France in Geneva. As a cover for deserting the French army, he is given a job as a photographer. The group' ...

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Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution. ...

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The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it ...

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La Paresse (1962)

Jean-Luc Godard's short segment made for "Les sept péchés capitaux". ...

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A Woman Is a Woman (1961)

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous. ...

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A Story of Water (1961)

A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water. ...

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Breathless (1960)

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him. ...

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All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1959)

A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates. ...

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The Chasers (1959)

Two young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris trying to pick up chicks. ...

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Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)

This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his constant barrage of speech; the woman doesn't say much. She just mocks the man and pretends she isn't listening. She pulls faces at him and larks about; wh ...

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Operation Concrete (1958)

Godard returned to Paris briefly before getting a job as a construction worker on a dam project in Switzerland. With the money from the job, he made a short film about the building of the dam called Opération béton (Operation Concrete). ...

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The Kreutzer Sonata (1956)

Some time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that of physical love. When a violinist with whom his wife plays regularly the "Sonata to Kreutzer" appears, the young woman blooms in a new passion. From then on, ...

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A Flirtatious Woman (1955)

Agnès, a bourgeois young woman from Geneva, writes a letter to a friend, telling how she ended up cheating on her husband. Fascinated by the attitudes and gestures adopted by a prostitute to attract clients, Agnès decides to imitate her and seduces the f ...

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