The Films of Jean-Luc Godard


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One of the most important, controversial, and prolific filmmakers in film history, and a founder of French New Wave cinema, Jean-Luc Godard has maintained an unbroken string of films in various genres and mediums from the late 1950s onward. Godard has established a reputation as a rebel who can work within and outside the system, producing films that are creative, breathtakingly beautiful, and yet commercial enough to earn back their production costs. In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon offers an overview of all of Godard's work as a filmmaker, including his work for television and his ethnographic work in Africa. Free from the jargon and value judgments that have marred much of what has been written about Godard, this is the only book that covers the entirety of Godard's career, from his early film criticism for Cahiers du Cinema to his most recent video/film work. Illustrated with forty-six rare stills and researched in detail, it is the Godard book for the 1990s.




French film directors


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Morrey offers a new interpretation of one of the most innovative directors in the history of cinema, covering the whole of Godard's career from the French New Wave to the more recent triumphs of 'Histoire(s) du cinema' and 'Eloge de l'amour'.




Godard


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A woman is a woman -- A married woman -- Two or three things I know about her.




Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema


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“Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema is an exhilarating and extremely lucid analysis of the way Godard ‘thinks’ in, of, and through cinema. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of French culture, politics and theory, Morgan skillfully illustrates the complex relations between history, aesthetics, and nature in the director’s later works. Defying criticism of Godard’s alleged retreat from politics, this book provides compelling, detailed, and erudite analyses of his later films and illuminates the auteur’s political and aesthetic response to the so-called ‘death of cinema.’”— Mary Ann Doane, author of The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive. “Daniel Morgan charts a sensible route into the impenetrable Jean-Luc Godard. Posing clear yet insistent questions, he burrows to the center of both parts of this book’s formidable title, finding in late Godard an aesthetic fusion that generates the light and heat of a trenchant and powerful political critique. Anyone who feels drawn or licensed to write about Godard should read Morgan before setting out.”—Dudley Andrew, author of What Cinema Is! “Daniel Morgan's Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema signals a major breakthrough in the international study of the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard. Reconciling the filmmaker's peculiarly Romantic sense of aesthetics —to which the book pays scrupulous, material attention—with the thorny political histories that Godard's cinema has always probed, Morgan gives us new, compelling, synthetic tools with which to understand an artist who is at once the most cryptic and the most sensuous of all living filmmakers.”—Adrian Martin, Monash University, co-editor of lolajournal.com




Weekend


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Breathless


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On Jean-Luc Godard's film "breathless"




Jean-Luc Godard


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Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian


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Originally released as a videographic experiment in film history, Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma has pioneered how we think about and narrate cinema history, and in how history is taught through cinema. In this stunningly illustrated volume, Michael Witt explores Godard's landmark work as both a specimen of an artist's vision and a philosophical statement on the history of film. Witt contextualizes Godard's theories and approaches to historiography and provides a guide to the wide-ranging cinematic, aesthetic, and cultural forces that shaped Godard's groundbreaking ideas on the history of cinema.




Films Directed by Jean-Luc Godard


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 28. Chapters: Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard filmography, La Chinoise, Breathless, Bande a part, Vivre sa vie, Histoire(s) du cinema, Pierrot le fou, Aria, Contempt, Hail Mary, In Praise of Love, Ro.Go.Pa.G., Number Two, King Lear, Week End, Sympathy for the Devil, Notre musique, Made in U.S.A, Film Socialisme, Masculine Feminine, Sauve qui peut, The Oldest Profession, Soft and Hard, Ten Minutes Older, A Woman Is a Woman, The Little Soldier, The Carabineers, Keep Your Right Up, Passion, Les plus belles escroqueries du monde, Tribute to Eric Rohmer, Tout Va Bien, Amore e rabbia, Nouvelle Vague, Paris vu par..., Detective, Two or Three Things I Know About Her, Here and Elsewhere, First Name: Carmen, Far from Vietnam, Joy of Learning, Allemagne annee 90 neuf zero, Charlotte and Her Boyfriend, JLG/JLG - Self-Portrait in December, All the Boys Are Called Patrick, A Letter to Freddy Buache, Une femme coquette, A Story of Water, A Married Woman, Letter to Jane, For Ever Mozart, Operation Concrete, One A.M.. Excerpt: Alphaville: Une etrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution) is a 1965 black-and-white French science fiction film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Howard Vernon and Akim Tamiroff. The film won the Golden Bear award of the 15th Berlin International Film Festival in 1965. Alphaville combines the genres of dystopian science fiction and film noir. Although set far in the future on another planet, there are no special effects or elaborate sets; instead, the film was shot in real locations in Paris, the night-time streets of the capital becoming the streets of Alphaville, while modernist glass and concrete buildings (in 1965 they were new and strange architectural designs) represent the city's interiors. In addition, ..