André Labarthe part à la recherche de Godard et de son “Voyage(s) en utopie”, installation inachevée du cinéaste au Centre Georges- Pompidou en 2006. Le film crée l’illusion d’une discussion entre les deux hommes. Extraits de films et entretiens composent ce voyage passionnant dans le temps et l’oeuvre godardiens.Read More »
Jean-Luc Godard
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Olivier Bohler & Céline Gailleurd – Jean-Luc Godard, le désordre exposé (2013)
2011-2020Céline GailleurdDocumentaryFranceJean-Luc GodardOlivier BohlerVideo Art -
Jean-Luc Godard – La chinoise [+commentary] (1967)
1961-1970AdventureFranceJean-Luc GodardPoliticsSynopsis:
Born in a decade of political turmoil, La Chinoise has become a cinematic marker for the significant historical events that surrounded its creation. Five Parisian students, their political awareness aroused by Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, envision an overthrow of Western governmental systems – which they aim to bring about through acts of terrorism. One of Godard’s most brilliant films of the 60s, its success lies in the rejection of traditional narrative techniques: it is a dialectical charade which is as disturbing as it is comical. Though criticised in its day as a political manipulation, La Chinoise has proven alarmingly prophetic and its impact on audiences during the late 60s is echoed amongst viewers today.Read More » -
Jean-Luc Godard – Charlotte et son Jules AKA Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1960)
1951-1960DramaFranceJean-Luc GodardShort Film“Charlotte et son Jules was made the year before Breathless and in many ways prefigures the arrival of that major film. Shot entirely in or from a single hotel room, it centres on Jules, played by Jean-Paul Belmondo who delivers a rapid-fire tirade about his girlfriend and their relationship when she turns up back in the apartment. The poverty of the production is indicated by the fact that the voice of the Belmondo character is that of Godard himself. But its machine gun dialogue and restless jump-cutting camera is almost an advance preview of the long sort of love scene between Michel and Patricia in Patricia’s tiny apartment in Breathless.”Read More »
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Jean-Luc Godard – Masculin féminin aka Masculine Feminine (1966)
1961-1970DocumentaryDramaFranceJean-Luc GodardA romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.Read More »
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Groupe Dziga Vertov & Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin – Vladimir et Rosa (1971)
1971-1980ArthouseFranceGroupe Dziga VertovJean-Luc GodardJean-Pierre GorinPoliticsQuote:
Vladimir and Rosa was in many ways the last true product of the experimental revolutionary filmmaking cooperative the Dziga Vertov Group: the final film produced under the group’s banner before Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin went on to make the feature Tout va bien and the short Letter To Jane under their own names, before parting ways for good. Taking its title from Vladimir Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg, this film is typical of Godard and Gorin’s late 60s/early 70s collaborations. That is to say, it’s shrill, antagonistic, messy and often intentionally grating, as dense and complex as it is difficult and polemical. Read More »
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Jean-Luc Godard – Sauve qui peut (la vie) AKA Every Man For Himself (1980)
1971-1980ArthouseDramaFranceJean-Luc GodardQuote:
During the 1970’s Jean Luc Godard abandoned the notion of making normal commercial films for cinematic distribution in favour of his Marxist-Leninist ‘Dziga Vertov’ propaganda films. The director returned to regular filmmaking in 1980 with Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie), his first theatrical release since his furious outburst against modern bourgeois society in 1967 with Weekend. Delivering another hate-filled attack on almost every aspect of modern society, it’s like he had never been away.Read More » -
Jean-Luc Godard – Le livre d’image AKA The Image Book (2018) (HD)
2011-2020ArthouseJean-Luc GodardSwitzerlandIMDB wrote:
Nothing but silence.
Nothing but a revolutionary song.
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Jean-Luc Godard – Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
1961-1970ArthouseJean-Luc GodardMusicalUnited KingdomJean-Luc Godard’s documentary Sympathy for the Devil combines footage of the Rolling Stones in a recording studio creating one of their masterpieces (the song gave the film its name) with the sort of documentary footage Godard was intrigued by at that time in his career.Read More »
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Jean-Luc Godard – À bout de souffle AKA Breathless (1960) (HD)
1951-1960ArthouseClassicsFranceJean-Luc GodardSYNOPSIS:
Petty thug Michel panics and impulsively kills a policeman while driving a stolen car. On the lam, he turns to his aspiring journalist girlfriend Patricia, hiding out in her Paris apartment. When Patricia learns that Michel is being investigated for murder, she begins to question her loyalties.Read More »