Jean-Luc Godard
Few filmmakers had so profound an effect on the development of cinema as Jean-Luc Godard, certainly one of the most important and influential directors worldwide to have emerged since the end of World War II. From his early days as a critic and thinker in the pages of Cahiers du cinema, through the great age of the French New Wave of the 1960s, Godard redefined the way we look at film. An essayist and poet of the cinema, he made the language of film a real part of his narratives. Godard emerged on the international filmmaking scene with his most famous and perhaps best film, "Breathless" (1960), a celebration of the American film noir that also served as the stylistic template for the rest of the 1960s, widely considered to be his most fertile creative period. During that turbulent decade, Godard made no less than two films a year and sometime more, creating such experimental and increasingly politically-minded films as "Vivre sa vie" (My Life to Live") (1962), "Contempt" (1963), Bande à Part" ("Band of Outsiders") (1964) and "Alphaville" (1965), many of which starred his first wife, Anna Karina. After making the critically panned "Weekend" (1967), a disgruntled Godard left the filmmaking business altogether in order to make political films. Once that interest waned in 1972, he entered into a transitional period of video and television projects that eventually segued into a second period of narrative filmmaking that was more experimental and inaccessible than his previous work, though some critics declared this time as being more creatively fruitful. Chief among the works was the controversial "Hail Mary" (1985), a contemporary retelling of the biblical Joseph and Mary story that was tagged by the Vatican as being blasphemous. Whether he was continuing his long love affair with film noir, as he did with "Detective" (1985), or trying new narrative techniques with the ambiguous "King Lear" (1987), Godard was not only a tireless experimenter with form and context, but also synonymous with the world of cinema itself.
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Jean-Luc Godard
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Godard by Godard | Self | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2023 |
50% |
|
Godard Cinema | Self | $22.8K | 2022 |
90% |
|
The Image Book |
Narrator, Director, Writer, Film Editor |
$92.8K | 2018 |
89% |
|
Goodbye to Language |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bridges of Sarajevo | Director | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
|
3x3D |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marcel Ophuls et Jean-Luc Godard, La rencontre de St-Gervais | Self | - | 2011 |
58% |
|
Socialism |
Director, Screenwriter |
$31.2K | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Accomplice | Self | - | 2010 |
66% |
|
Two in the Wave | Self | $28.8K | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Reportage Amateur Maquette Expo | Director | - | 2006 |
69% |
|
Our Music |
Director, Film Editing |
$139.9K | 2004 |
71% |
|
Alas for Me (Helas pour moi) | Director | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ten Minutes Older: The Cello | Director | - | 2002 |
53% |
|
In Praise of Love |
Director, Writer |
$251.7K | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | After the Reconciliation | Robert (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Old Place |
Narrator, Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing |
- | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
|
Origins of the 21st Century |
Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing |
- | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Histoire(s) du Cinéma: Control of the Universe |
Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing |
- | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
|
3A: La Monnaie De L'Absolu; 4A: Le controle De L'Univers | Director | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | We're All Still Here | L'homme comédien (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside/Out | Producer | - | 1997 |
45% |
|
For Ever Mozart |
Director, Writer, Film Editing |
- | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
|
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema |
Director, Film Editing |
- | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | JLG: Self Portrait in December |
Unknown (Character), Director, Writer, Producer, Film Editing |
- | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Children Play Russian |
The Idiot: Prince Mishkin (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing |
- | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Against Oblivion | Director | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet |
|
Oh, Woe Is Me |
Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing |
- | 1992 |
No Score Yet |
|
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero |
Director, Writer |
- | 1991 |
67% |
|
Nouvelle Vague |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1990 |
33% |
|
Soigne ta Droite |
L'idiot et le prince (Character), Director, Writer |
- | 1987 |
57% |
|
Aria | Director | - | 1987 |
55% |
|
King Lear |
Professor Pluggy (uncredited) (Character), Director, Film Editing |
$8.8K | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1986 |
73% |
|
Hail Mary |
Director, Writer |
- | 1985 |
92% |
|
Detective | Director | - | 1985 |
88% |
|
First Name: Carmen |
Oncle Jeannot (Character), Director, Writer |
- | 1983 |
63% |
|
Breathless | Screenwriter | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie' | Director | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
|
Letter to Freddy Buache |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scénario du film 'Passion' |
Narrator, Director |
- | 1982 |
63% |
|
Passion | Director | - | 1982 |
90% |
|
Every Man for Himself |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Film Editing |
$56.0K | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scénario de Sauve qui peut (la vie) | Director | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
|
Comment ça va? |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
|
Ici et ailleurs |
Narrator, Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1976 |
100% |
|
Number Two |
Writer, Screenwriter |
- | 1975 |
50% |
|
All's Well | Director | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still |
Narrator, Director |
- | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Struggle in Italy |
Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing |
- | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vladimir and Rosa |
Vladimir Lenin (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Film Editing |
- | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | British Sounds |
Unknown (Character), Director, Writer |
- | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wind From the East |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pravda | Director | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joy of Learning |
Narrator, Director, Screenwriter |
$1.1K | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
|
Love and Anger | Director | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
|
Le Gai Savoir (Joy of Learning) (Joyful Wisdom) |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
|
A Film Like Any Other |
Director, Writer |
- | 1968 |
44% |
|
Sympathy for the Devil |
Director, Writer |
- | 1968 |
No Score Yet |
|
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers | Director | - | 1967 |
94% |
|
Two or Three Things I Know About Her |
Director, Writer |
$101.9K | 1967 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Oldest Profession | Director | - | 1967 |
64% |
|
Far From Vietnam | Director | - | 1967 |
93% |
|
Weekend | Director | - | 1967 |
95% |
|
The Chinese Girl |
Director, Screenwriter |
$5.6K | 1967 |
85% |
|
Made in U.S.A. |
Director, Writer |
- | 1966 |
96% |
|
Masculine-Feminine |
Director, Writer, Producer |
$199.9K | 1966 |
76% |
|
Six in Paris | Director | $13.9K | 1965 |
88% |
|
Pierrot le Fou |
Director, Screenwriter |
$22.7K | 1965 |
86% |
|
A Married Woman |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1965 |
92% |
|
Alphaville |
Director, Screenwriter |
$46.6K | 1965 |
94% |
|
Band of Outsiders |
Le narrateur (Character), Director, Writer |
$37.7K | 1964 |
92% |
|
Contempt |
Director, Writer |
$247.8K | 1963 |
80% |
|
The Little Soldier |
Director, Screenwriter |
$24.3K | 1963 |
80% |
|
Les carabiniers |
Director, Screenwriter, Screenwriter |
- | 1963 |
91% |
|
My Life to Live |
Director, Writer, Film Editing |
- | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The New World | Director | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet |
|
Rogopag | Director | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Seven Cardinal Sins |
Director, Writer |
- | 1962 |
92% |
|
Cleo From 5 to 7 |
L'homme aux lunettes noires/ |
- | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
|
A Story of Water |
Narrator, Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sloth | Director | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald | Unknown (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
|
A Woman Is a Woman |
Director, Screenwriter |
$99.7K | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
|
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend |
Unknown (Voice), Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
|
Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak | Walter (Character) | - | 1960 |
95% |
|
Breathless |
An Informer (Character), Director, Writer |
$47.1K | 1959 |
No Score Yet |
|
All the Boys Are Called Patrick | Director | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Operation Concrete |
Narrator, Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing |
- | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
|
Fool's Mate | Un invité à la fête (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Kreutzer Sonata |
Ami journaliste (Character), Producer |
- | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
|
A Flirtatious Woman |
Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Film Editing |
- | 1955 |