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"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order." "All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl." "I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. "Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world." — Jean-Luc Godard "Godard is about ideas, Melville is about style, and Truffaut is about people."
I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas."
— G.E. Nordell
Jean-Luc Godard entry at Wikipedia
Jean-Luc Godard listings at Internet Movie Database
French New Wave {Nouvelle Vague} entry at Wikipedia
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Jean-Luc Godard won two Honorary César Awards in France (1987 & 1998) |
2 Silver Bears (1960-61), Golden Bear (1965) & 3 Interfilm Awards at Berlin International Film Festival;
2 Special Jury Prizes (1962 & 1967), Career Golden Lion (1982), Golden Lion (1983)
& Senate Gold Medal (1991) at the Venice Film Festival;
Lifetime Achievement Award at Stockholm Film Festival (2001);
and Lifetime Achievement Award at European Film Awards (2007)
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"Jean-Luc Godard Box Set" [2008]
LionsGate color DVD [2/2008] for $26.99 contains "Passion" [1982]; "First Name: Carmen" [1983]; "Détective" [1985]; and "Oh Woe Is Me" [1993] |
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"Criterion Collection Director Series - Jean-Luc Godard" [2007]
Criterion DVD [12/2007] 5 disks for $76.99 Amazon.com Exclusive contains 2-disk "Breathless" [1960]; 2-disk "Contempt" [1963]; and "Band Of Outsiders" [1964] |
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"Essentials Directors Series - Jean-Luc Godard" [2007] Wellspring Media DVD [9/2007] 4 disks for $53.99 contains "À Bout de Souffle" [1960]; "Le Petit Soldat" [1960]; "Les Carabiniers" [1963]; and "Notre Musique" [2004] |
 | "Jean-Luc Godard Collection 3-Pack box set" [2001]
Fox-Lorber DVD set [12/2001] 3 disks for $44.99 contains "À Bout de Souffle" [1960]; "Le Petit Soldat" [1960]; and "Les Carabiniers" [1963] |
Godard's Early Works
"Opération Béton" (Operation Concrete) [1954]
"Une Femme Coquette" (A Coquettish Woman) [1955]
"Charlotte et Véronique, ou:
Tous les Garçons s'appellent Patrick" [1957]
("Charlotte and Véronique, or: All Boys Are Called Patrick")
"Une Histoire d'Eau" (A History of Water) [1958]
"Charlotte et son Jules" [1958]
aka "Charlotte and Her Boyfriend"
Godard & The New Wave
"Breathless" ("A Bout de Souffle")
[France March 1960; US release Feb 1961]
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One of the films that began the French 'Nouvelle Vague' [New Wave] movement, the story of a small-time crook who finds love (maybe) when his life is at its most dangerous point. This triumph of cinema noir reveals the truth behind our truths, thru the lives in the movie that are contaminated by American movies and avant garde posing. The viewer is left uncertain where truth may indeed exist.
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, written by Jean-Luc Godard & François Truffaut [1932-84]; starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg & Jean-Pierre Melville; Prix Méliès co-winner 1960
Timeless Video b&w VHS w/Engl. subtitles [7/94] for $14.99 Fox/Lorber b&w DVD w/Engl. subtitles [11/2001] for $21.49 full credits from IMDb |
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1983 English-language color remake {only half as good as the original} Co-written & directed by Jim McBride; starring Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky & Art Metrano MGM/UA color VHS [4/2000] for $9.94 MGM/UA color DVD [5/2001] for $13.46 full credits from IMDb |
"Le Petit Soldat" (The Little Soldier) [1960]
"Une Femme est une Femme" [1961]
(A Woman Is A Woman)
"La Paresse" (Sloth) [1961 short]
from "Les Sept Péchés Capitaux" (The Seven Deadly Sins)
"Vivre sa Vie" (To Live One's Life) [1962]
aka "My Life To Live"
"Ro.Go.Pa.G." anthology film [Italy Feb 1963]
 | Four segments by four directors – Roberto Rosselini, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini & Ugo Gregoretti: "Illibatezza" ('Chastity') written & directed by Rosselini, starring Rosanna Schiaffino, Bruce Balaban & Maria Pia Schiaffino; "Il Nuovo Mondo" ('New World') written & directed by Godard, starring Jean-Marc Bory & Alexandra Stewart; "La Ricotta" ('Curd Cheese') written & directed by Pasolini, starring Orson Welles (as the director of a film about Jesus Christ); and "Il Pollo Ruspante" ('Free Range Chicken') written & directed by Gregoretti, starring Ugo Tognazzi, Lisa Gastoni, Ricky Tognazzi & Antonella Taito DVD/Blu-ray not available; Kino Video b&w VHS [6/2000] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
"Les Carabiniers" (The Riflemen) [1963]
"Le Mépris" (Contempt)
[France Dec 1963, USA Oct 1964]
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Godard's view of commercial Hollywood filmmaking and human relationships is mischievous, rebellious, subversive & contemptuous. A respected Italian screenwriter of an innovative production of "Homer's Odyssey" struggles to please the American producer, the German director (real-life director Fritz Lang - at age 72), and the writer's unhappy sexpot French wife. {Godard's first color film.}
Adapted & directed by Jean-Luc Godard, from the 1954 novel "Il Disprezzo" by Alberto Moravia; cinematography in Franscope by Raoul Coutard; starring Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Brigitte Bardot, Giorgia Moll & Fritz Lang, with cameos by Jean-Luc Godard & Raoul Coutard
LionsGate widescreen color Blu-ray [2/2010] for $25.99 
Criterion widescreen color DVD [12/2002] 2 disks for $30.49 DVD set includes "The Dinosaur and The Baby" [61 minute TV documentary 1967], a conversation between Godard and Fritz Lang; two on-set interviews with Godard: "Bardot et Godard" [8 minutes 1964], and "Paparazzi" [22 minutes b&w 1964]; plus other extras Embassy/Nelson Ent. color VHS [3/91] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • Rialto movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia |
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"Contempt" [1954] by Alberto Moravia, translated by Angus Davidson New York Review of Books 7¾x4¾ pb [7/2004] for $10.17 New York Review of Books 8x5 pb [9/99] out of print/used |
"Le Grand Escroc" (The Big Swindler) [1963 short]
from "Les plus Belles Escroqueries du Monde" (The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers)
"Bande à Part" (Band of Outsiders) [1964] is noir?
listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (5/2005)
"Une Femme Mariée, fragments d'un film
tourné en 1964 en noir et blanc" [1964]
(A Married Woman: Fragments of A Film Shot In Black and White)
"Reportage sur Orly"(Reporting On Orly) [1964 short]
"Alphaville, une étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution" [1965]
(Alphaville: One of Lemmy Caution's Strange Cases)
"Pierrot le Fou" (Pierrot the Mad) [1965]
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard; starring Jean-Paul Belmondo & Anna Karina
http://www.janusfilms.com/pierrot/ http://www.amazon.com/Pierrot-Fou-Princess-Aicha-Abidir/dp/B000ZM1MIM/
"Montparnasse-Levallois" [1965 short]
from "Paris vu par..." (Paris as Seen by...) aka "Six In Paris"
"Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis"
aka "Masculine, Feminine: In 15 Acts"
[France March 1966, USA Sept 1966]
 | A young writer returning to civilian life gets a job at a magazine and becomes involved with a beautiful rising pop singer, yet remains disillusioned with his life.
Written & directed by Jean-Luc Godard; based on stories by Guy de Maupassant; starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Michel Debord, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Eva-Britt Strandberg & Birger Malmsten
Criterion widescreen b&w DVD [9/2005] for $24.99 New Yorker Video b&w VHS [1/98] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • Rialto's movie site 11"x17" yellow poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
"Made In U.S.A."
[France 1966; U.S.A. release Feb 2009]
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Godard's experimental {first?} color film is a mixture: a farewell to his actress ex-wife (Anna Karina), a leftist polemic, and a murder mystery. A widow chases down and kills the men she holds responsible for the murder of her husband.
Written & directed by Jean-Luc Godard; loosely based on Donald E. Westlake's novel "The Jugger"; cinematography by Raoul Coutard; starring Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, singer Marianne Faithfull, Yves Afonso
DVD or videos for Region 1 not available (2008) full credits from IMDb • Rialto's movie site |
"2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle" [1966]
(2 or 3 Things I Know About Her)
"La Chinoise" (The Chinese) [1967]
"Weekend" [1967]
"Anticipation, ou: l'Amour en l'An 2000" [1967 short]
(Anticipation: or Love In The Year 2000)
from "Le Plus Vieux Métier du Monde" (The World's Oldest Profession)
"Caméra-oeil" (Camera-Eye) [1967 short]
from "Loin du Vietnam" (Far From Vietnam)
"L'amore (Andate e Ritorno dei Figli Prodighi)" [1967 short]
(Love: Departure and Return of The Prodigal Children)
from "Amore e Rabbia" (Love and Anger)
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Dziga Vertov Group / Political Films (1968 – 1972)
"Vladimir et Rosa" [1970]
Uncredited writing & direction by Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin; starring Yves Afonso, Juliet Berto,
Jean-Luc Godard {as Vladimir Lenin} & Jean-Pierre Gorin; video/DVD not available;
full credits from IMDb
Transitional Period (1974 - 1978)
The Second Wave (1979 - 1988)
"Sauve qui Peut (La Vie)" [1979]
aka "Save (Your Life) Who's Able" or "Run For (Your Life) If You Can"
or "Every Man For Himself" (in North America) and "Slow Motion" (in the U.K.)
"Quelques Remarques sur La Réalisation et La Production
du Film Sauve qui Peut (La Vie)" [1979 short]
[ A Few Remarks On The Direction and Production of The Film Sauve qui Peut (La Vie) ]
"Passion" [1982]
"Lettre à Freddy Buache à propos d'un Court-métrage
sur La Ville de Lausanne" [1982 short]
(Letter To Freddy Buache Regarding A Short Work About The Town of Lausanne)
"Changer d'Image" (To Alter The Image) [1982 short]
from "Le Changement a Plus d'un Titre" (Change Has More Than One Title)
"Scénario du Film Passion" [1982 short]
"Prénom Carmen" (First Name: Carmen) [1983]
won Golden Lion Award at Venice Film Festival
"Petites Notes à Propos du Film Je Vous Salue, Marie" [1983 short]
(Small Notes Regarding The Film Je Vous Salue, Marie)
"Je Vous Salue, Marie" [1985]
(I Salute Thee, Marie) aka "Hail Mary"
"Détective" [1985]
"Grandeur et Décadence
d'un Petit Commerce de Cinéma" [1986 short]
(Grandeur and Decadence of A Small Movie Concern)
"Soft and Hard" [1986 short]
"Meeting Woody Allen" 26-minute short [France 1986]
Directed & edited by Jean-Luc Godard; written by & starring Woody Allen
video/DVD not available;
full credits from IMDb
Godard's "King Lear"
[Cannon France 1987, USA Jan 1988]
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Godard's intellectually-challenging Lear takes place in a post-Chernobyl parallel universe, more gonzo cinema than Shakespearean drama.
Written & directed by and starring Jean-Luc Godard; very loosely based on the play by William Shakespeare; also starring Peter Sellars, Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald, Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, Kate Mailer, Julie Delpy, Freddy Buache, Leos Carax, Suzanne Lanza & Michèle Pétin
Cinematheque Collection color VHS [10/92] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
"Soigne ta Droite, une Place sur La Terre" [1987]
(Keep Your Right Up: A Place On The Earth)
"Armide" [1987 short] from "Aria"
"Closed Jeans: Marithé François Girbaud, Série 1, 1-10" [1988 short]
"Closed: Marithé et François Girbaud, Série 2, 1-7" [1988 short]
"On s'est Tous Défilé" [1988 short]
aka "We All Filed Past" or "We All Stole Away"
or "We All Took Cover" or "We've All Undone Ourselves"
"La Puissance de La Parole" [1988 short]
(The Power of Speech)
"Le Dernier Mot / Les Français Entendus par ..." [1988 short]
(The Last Word / The French As Understood by...)
from "Les Français Vus par..." (The French As Seen By...)
1989 To The Present
"Le Rapport Darty" [1989]
aka "The Darty Report" or "The Darty Connection"
"Marithé François Girbaud: Métamorphojean" [1990]
"Nouvelle Vague" (New Wave) [1990]
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"Jean-Luc Godard - Nouvelle Vague" soundtrack [2000] Composed by Jean-Luc Godard E.C.M. Records soundtrack CD [10/2000] 2 disks - out of prodn/used |
" Allemagne Année 90 Neuf Zéro" [1991]
(Germany Year 90 Nine Zero)
"Les Enfants Jouent à La Russie" [1993]
(The Kids Play Russian)
"Hélas Pour Moi" [1993]
(Alas For Me / Oh, Woe Is Me)
"Je Vous Salue Sarajevo" [1993]
(I Salute Thee Sarajevo / Hail Sarajevo)
"J.L.G./J.L.G.: Autoportrait de Décembre" [1994]
(JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait In December)
"2 x 50 Ans de Cinéma Français" [1995]
(Twice Fifty Years of French Cinema)
"For Ever Mozart" [1996]
"Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinéma, 1988-98"
[Canal+/C.N.C./Gaumont video release 1998]
available on DVD or hardcover book only in France
 | Eight short semi-documentary films: "Part 1: Toutes les Histoires" [1988]; "Part 2: Une Histoire Seule" [1989]; "Part 3: Fatale Beauté" [1997]; "Part 4: Seul le Cinéma" [1997]; "Part 5: La Monnaie de l'Absolu" [1998]; "Part 6: Une Vague Nouvelle" [1998]; "Part 7: Le Contrôle de l'Univers" [1998]; and "Part 8: Les Signes Parmi Nous" [1998] |
 | "Histoire(s) du Cinéma" and "2 x 50 Ans de Cinéma Françes" DVD box set
G.C.T.H.V. PAL-DVD set [3/2007] 4 disks - out of prodn/used from Amazon.FR the disk set also includes 52 minute "2 x 50 Ans de Cinéma Françes" [1995]; 13 minute "L'Origine du XXIème Siècle" [2000]; and undated 52 minute "Conférence de Presse de Jean-Luc Godard à Cannes" |
 | "Histoire(s) du Cinéma" [2006] de Jean-Luc Godard Editions Gallimard French-language hardcover [4/2006] for €42,75 from Amazon.FR |
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"Histoire(s) du Cinéma de Jean-Luc Godard: La Force Faible d'un Art" [2006] de Céline Scemama Editions L'Harmattan French-language pb [5/2006] for €22,23 from Amazon.FR |
"Moments Choisis des Histoire(s) du Cinéma" [Gaumont 2004]
Produced, written & directed by Jean-Luc Godard; video/DVD not available;
credits from IMDb
"Small Notes Regarding The Arts At Fall
of The 20th Century: The Old Place" [1999]
with Anne-Marie Miéville
"De l'Origine du XXIe Siècle pour Moi" [2000]
(Of The Origin of The XXIst Century For Me)
"Eloge de l'Amour" [2001]
(Elegy For Love / Ode To Love) aka "In Praise of Love"
"Liberté et Patrie" (Freedom and Fatherland) [2002]
with Anne-Marie Miéville
"Notre Musique" (Our Music) [2004]
"Vrai Faux Passeport" (True False Passport) [2006]
"Prières pour Refuzniks: 1" [2006]
(Prayers For Refuseniks: 1)
"Prières pour Refuzniks: 2" [2006]
(Prayers For Refuseniks: 2)
Other Works of Jean-Luc Godard
"Bardot et Godard" [8 minutes 1964] on-set interview with Godard
"Paparazzi" [22 minutes b&w 1964] on-set interview with Godard
"Jean-Luc Godard Répond aux Questions"
TV documentary [France 1995]
Directed by Roman Lewandowski; video/DVD not available;
full credits from IMDb
"Après la Réconciliation" [Canal+ Dec 2000]
aka "After The Reconciliation"
Written & directed by Anne-Marie Miéville; starring Claude Perron, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jacques Spiesser,
Jean-Luc Godard & Xavier Marchand; video/DVD not available;
full credits from IMDb
 | "Pierrot le Fou" / "Week-End" soundtrack compilation [2001]
Emarcy soundtrack CD [2/2008] for $22.99 includes soundtrack music from "Pierrot Le Fou" [1965] and a re-recording of the 'lost' soundtrack for "Weekend" [1967], composed by Antoine Duhamel & featuring the songs of Anna Karina |
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"Jean-Luc Godard - Histoire(s) de Musique" [2007]
Emarcy soundtrack CD [6/2007] for $22.99 soundtrack music from "Alphaville", "Breathless ("A Bout de Souffle"), "La Chinoise", "Contempt" ("Le Mépris"), "Pierrot le Fou", "Sauve qui Peut (La Vie)" and "Vivre sa Vie"; composed by Georges Delerue, Michel Legrand, Paul Misraki, Martial Solal & Gabriel Yared; performed by Claude Channes, Sporto Kantes, Anna Karina, Martial Solal & others |
Books By Jean-Luc Godard
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"Cinema: The Archaeology of Film & The Memory of A Century" [2005] by Jean-Luc Godard & Youssef Ishaghpour, translated by John Howe Berg Publrs 7½x5½ pb [3/2005] for $14.04 Berg Publrs 7½x5½ hardcover [3/2005] for $71.95 |
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"Godard On Godard: Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard" [1986] Translated & edited by Tom Milne Da Capo Press 8¼x5½ pb [3/86] for $12.58 |
Works About Jean-Luc Godard
 | "Deux de la Vague (Two In The Wave)" [Lorber Films France 2009, USA May 2010] Godard & Truffaut were friends during the creation of the French New Wave {Nouvelle Vague} cinema of the 1950s and 1960s – after the success of "the 400 Blows", Truffaut gave Godard the script for "Breathless". But they split over France's political changes in 1968; actor Léaud had worked for them both, and was torn between them, much like a child with divorced parents. 91-minute documentary produced & directed by Emmanuel Laurent; written & narrated by Antoine De Baecque; featuring directors Jean-Luc Godard & François Truffaut, and actor Jean-Pierre Léaud DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb |
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"Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard" [2008] 'critical biography' by Richard Brody Metropolitan Books 9½x6 hardcover [5/2008] for $26.40 |
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"Jean-Luc Godard: Documents" [2006] de Nicole Brenez, David Faroult, Augustin Gimel & Michael Witt Editions du Centre Pompidou pb + DVD [5/2006] for €42,66 from Amazon.FR |
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"For Ever Godard: The Work of Jean-Luc Goddard From 1950 To The Present" [2004] Edited by Michael Temple, James S. Williams & Michael Witt Black Dog Publng 9¾x7½ pb [7/2007] for $26.37 Black Dog Publng 10x7¾ 'turtleback' [6/2004] for $31.05 |
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"Godard: A Portrait of The Artist At Seventy" [2004] by Colin MacCabe Faber & Faber 8x5½ pb [1/2005] for $13.26 FS&G 9x6½ hardcover [1/2004] out of print/used |
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"The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing The Invisible" [1999] by David Sterritt Cambridge Univ Press pb [8/99] for $29.99 Cambridge Univ Press hardcover [8/99] for $95.00 |
"Godard In America" documentary [Grove/Evergreen 1970]
Directed by Ralph Thanhauser; video/DVD not available;
full credits from IMDb
"Cinéastes de notre temps" [1964-67]
Produced by André S. Labarthe & Janine Bazin; partial series credits from IMDb
"La Nouvelle Vague par Elle-même" TV documentary [1964]
Directed by André S. Labarthe & Robert Valey; interviewees include Claude Chabrol, Jacques Demy, Georges Franju,
Jean-Luc Godard, Henri Langlois, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Jacques Rivette, Jean Rouch, Jacques Rozier, François Truffaut
& Agnès Varda; video/DVD not available;
full credits from IMDb
"Jean-Luc Godard ou Le cinéma au défi" TV documentary [1965]
full credits from IMDb
"The Dinosaur and The Baby" TV documentary [61 minutes 1967]
a conversation between Jean-Luc Godard and Fritz Lang; video available on the Criterion DVD of 'Contempt" [1963]
full credits from IMDb
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