Movies: Jean-Luc Godard

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

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...

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

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. The opportunity to evoke Georges Brassens, Annabe...

A commercial by Marithé and François Girbaud's jeans company directed by filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. In this entry, JLG presents a couple looking at classical drawings and paintings quarreling about something. Later on, it's revealed the product being...

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 Visua...

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

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

A short film Mike Dibb directed for the BBC in July 1968 in Cowdray Park, where Godard was shooting a sequence with the Rolling Stones for ONE PLUS ONE. It was broadcast on BBC2 within the framework of the arts magazine RELEASE on the 30 November 196...

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

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.​...

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....

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 musi...

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...

The first woman and the second woman spend a day together. According to their views, they are friends who belong to two different classes. With a non-linear narrative, they provide us with topics of discussion and radical ideas from their daily lives...

This commercial entry directed by veteran Jean-Luc Godard promoting jeans company Marithé et François Girbaud presents a couple appearing on a beach in repeated moments over and over with some variations during their exchange and their dialogues....

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

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"[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...

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