The films of
Jean-Luc Godard
À bout de souffle (1960)
Jean-Luc Godard 		  Une femme est une femme (1961)
Jean-Luc Godard 		  Une histoire d'eau (1961)
Jean-Luc Godard 		 
     
This is arguably one of the dozen or so most influential films of the twentieth century. The contrast with everything that went before A bout de souffle is stunning...  [More...]   This is probably director Jean-Luc Godard’s funniest film, although it is in his characteristically tongue-in-cheek, slightly anarchistic style that uniquely identified his contribution to the French New Wave...  [More...]   Shortly after making his first commercial film, Les Mistons, in 1958, François Truffaut decided to make a short documentary film about the floods being experienced by Paris at the time...  [More...]  
Les Sept péchés capitaux (1962)
Philippe de Broca 		  Vivre sa vie (1962)
Jean-Luc Godard 		  Le Petit soldat (1963)
Jean-Luc Godard 		 
     
 [More...]   One of the most significant films of the French New Wave, Vivre sa vie is quintessentially Jean-Luc Godard at his best. The approach used in this film is quite different to his earlier films...  [More...]   Jean-Luc Godard’s second full-length film after the ground-breaking and highly praised À bout de souffle was Le Petit soldat, his first political film...  [More...]  
Le Mépris (1963)
Jean-Luc Godard 		  Les Carabiniers (1963)
Jean-Luc Godard 		  Bande à part (1964)
Jean-Luc Godard 		 
     
On the surface, this is probably Jean-Luc Godard’s most conventional film, with expensive location work, a large cast with some star names. Conspicuous by their absence are the cynical intellectual humour...  [More...]   Jean-Luc Godard’s fifth film sees a radical departure from his earlier films and the emergence of a more politically antagonistic form of cinema...  [More...]   Jean-Luc Godard’s cheeky homage to the low-budget American thriller genre is not one of his better works but it is a playful and entertaining reworking of a familiar theme...  [More...]  
Une femme mariée (1964)
Jean-Luc Godard 		  Alphaville (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard 		  Paris vu par... (1965)
Claude Chabrol 		 
     
Originally titled La Femme mariée, this controversial film from one of the leading lights of the French New Wave was banned by the censor for its sexually explicit scenes...  [More...]   If there had to be just one word to sum up Alphaville¸that word would have to be weird. It is a film that constantly challenges our preconceptions...  [More...]   By the mid-1960s, there were signs that the French New Wave had all but run its course. Its leading lights – François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard...  [More...]  
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard 		  Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Jean-Luc Godard 		  Masculin, féminin (1966)
Jean-Luc Godard 		 
     
Although it was originally conceived as a modest, low budget homage to the American gangster film, Pierrot le fou quickly earned a reputation as one of the most important films in French cinema and today is regarded...  [More...]   Having pretty well deconstructed the American crime thriller in Pierrot le fou, Jean-Luc Godard goes even further with his next policier outing, driving the genre to its absolute limits of abstraction and...  [More...]   This is another exquisitely funny and very stylish piece of cinema from one of France’s greatest directors, Jean-Luc Godard. It is also significant in that it is the first of Godard’s films in which the director...  [More...]  

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