Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
2 Seasons
At the vanguard of international filmmaking for six decades, French New Wave titan Jean-Luc Godard exerted an incalculable influence on modern cinema that refuses to wane. With his groundbreaking 1960 debut feature, BREATHLESS, Godard merged elements of high and low culture with an anything-goes abandon that set the template for generations of filmmakers. It marked the beginning of an explosively innovative decade that witnessed his output grow increasingly radical, both aesthetically (VIVRE SA VIE, CONTEMPT, ALPHAVILLE) and politically (PIERROT LE FOU, LA CHINOISE, WEEKEND), until by 1968 he had forsworn commercial cinema altogether, forming a leftist filmmaking collective (the Dziga Vertov Group) and producing films like the scathing anticapitalist screed TOUT VA BIEN. Eternally on the cutting edge, Godard spent the final years of his career exploring the outermost possibilities of digital filmmaking in visually and philosophically adventurous works like GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE and THE IMAGE BOOK, confirming his status as our greatest lyricist on historical trauma, religion, and the legacy of cinema.
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17:34Episode 1Godard 1980
Episode 1
Directed by Jon Jost, Donald Ranvaud, and Peter Wollen • 1980 • United Kingdom
The following short film from 1980, featuring director Jean-Luc Godard, was made by Jon Jost, Don Ranvaud, and Peter Wollen, in association with the magazine “Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media.”
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06:15Episode 2Jean-Luc Godard on LE PETIT SOLDAT
Episode 2
In this segment from a 1965 interview with Jean-Luc Godard, the director discusses LE PETIT SOLDAT and its reception.
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01:00Episode 3Godard & Truffaut vous parlent
Episode 3
This filmed 1968 announcement with filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut was made to appeal for support for Cinémathèque française director Henri Langlois during the “Langlois Affair.”
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Jean-Luc Godard on the Set of MASCULIN FÉMININ
Episode 4
MASCULIN FÉMININ was a coproduction of director Jean-Luc Godard’s Anouchka Films and the Swedish firm Sandrews Films. The “film within the film,” said by many to be a parody of Ingmar Bergman’s THE SILENCE (1963), was shot by Godard in Sweden. In this archival footage, a Swedish television crew v...
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Jean-Luc Godard on “The Dick Cavett Show,” 1980
Episode 5
In October 1980, director Jean-Luc Godard appeared on two episodes of “The Dick Cavett Show” to promote the U.S. release of EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF. Presented here, in their entirety, are those two episodes.
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29:35Episode 6Gideon Bachmann and Jean-Luc Godard
Episode 6
Presented here is an audio interview with director Jean-Luc Godard. Conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann in 1961, it covers Godard’s time as a critic for “Cahiers du cinéma,” the state of French filmmaking, and LE PETIT SOLDAT.
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07:11Episode 7Cannes 1968
Episode 7
Presented here is an excerpt from Cannes 1968, Sélim Sasson’s newsreel covering filmmaker François Truffaut’s call to shut down the Cannes Film Festival in May 1968. Roman Polanski, Louis Malle, and Jean-Luc Godard were also present.
