The greatest filmmaker in the world has died. And that’s a title Jean-Luc Godard has held for a very long time. His influence on cinematic form and language of the past 60 years has been foundational, ...

Jean-Luc Godard intended to give the public what it wanted. His next film was going to be about a girl and a gun—”A sure-fire story which will sell a lot of tickets.” And so, like Henry James’ hero in ...

Jean-Luc Godard’s initial idea for the film “Goodbye to Language,” he said, was a simple one: “It’s about a man and his wife who no longer speak the same language. The dog they take on walks then ...

Becoming a film critic is akin to joining a secret society: There is the secret knock, the handshake, and the tacit agreement that the most important filmmaker in the world is Jean-Luc Godard. With ...

The nearly complete retrospective of the films and videos of Jean-Luc Godard that is the crown jewel of this year’s New York Film Festival and, for that matter, of movie viewing, began yesterday and ...

Jean-Luc Godard, the visionary film director who shaped cinematic history with his provocative contributions to the French New Wave, died on Tuesday at the age of 91. Patrick Jeanneret, Godard’s legal ...

Director’s new movies, Nouvelle Vague and Blue Moon, focus on filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard and lyricist Lorenz Hart ...

As he announced with The Artist, writer-director Michel Hazanavicius makes movies about movies. So it was nearly inevitable that he would someday burlesque the work of Jean-Luc Godard, the ...

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

Godard's career was defined by pushing cinematic language to its boundaries, then breaking them. Jean-Luc Godard, the pioneering French New Wave director who challenged and upended conventional ...