Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
2 Seasons
At the vanguard of international filmmaking for six decades, French New Wave titan Jean-Luc Godard exerted an incalculable influence on modern cinema that refuses to wane. With his groundbreaking 1960 debut feature, BREATHLESS, Godard merged elements of high and low culture with an anything-goes abandon that set the template for generations of filmmakers. It marked the beginning of an explosively innovative decade that witnessed his output grow increasingly radical, both aesthetically (VIVRE SA VIE, CONTEMPT, ALPHAVILLE) and politically (PIERROT LE FOU, LA CHINOISE, WEEKEND), until by 1968 he had forsworn commercial cinema altogether, forming a leftist filmmaking collective (the Dziga Vertov Group) and producing films like the scathing anticapitalist screed TOUT VA BIEN. Eternally on the cutting edge, Godard spent the final years of his career exploring the outermost possibilities of digital filmmaking in visually and philosophically adventurous works like GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE and THE IMAGE BOOK, confirming his status as our greatest lyricist on historical trauma, religion, and the legacy of cinema.
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01:11Episode 1
Godard Tribute Teaser
Episode 1
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09:00Episode 2
Godard on Godard
Episode 2
The defining voice of the French New Wave discusses his iconoclastic, ever-evolving approach to filmmaking in this selection of archival interviews.
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1:30:21Episode 3
Breathless
Episode 3
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • France • 1960
Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel BoulangerThere was before BREATHLESS, and there was after BREATHLESS. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspi...
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1:23:52Episode 4
Vivre sa vie
Episode 4
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1962 • France
Starring Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André LabartheVIVRE SA VIE (a.k.a. MY LIFE TO LIVE) was a turning point for Jean-Luc Godard and remains one of his most dynamic films, combining brilliant visual design with a tragic character study. The lovely Anna ...
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1:28:22Episode 5
Le petit soldat
Episode 5
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1963 • France
Starring Michel Subor, Anna Karina, Henri-Jacques HuetBefore his convention-shattering debut, BREATHLESS, had even premiered, Jean-Luc Godard leapt into the making of his second feature, a thriller that would tackle the most controversial subject in F...
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1:44:31Episode 6
Masculin féminin
Episode 6
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1966 • France
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène JobertWith MASCULIN FÉMININ (“Masculine Feminine”), ruthless stylist and iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard introduces the world to “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola,” through a gang of restless youths engag...
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1:27:24Episode 7
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Episode 7
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1967 • France
Starring Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Joseph GerhardIn 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (2 OU 3 CHOSES QUE JE SAIS D’ELLE), Jean-Luc Godard beckons us ever closer, whispering in our ears as narrator. About what? Money, sex, fashion, the city, love, langu...
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Weekend
Episode 8
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1967 • France
Starring Mireille Darc, Jean YanneThis scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while...
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1:36:05Episode 9
Tout va bien
Episode 9
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin • 1972 • France, Italy
Starring Jane Fonda, Yves MontandIn 1972, newly radicalized Hollywood star Jane Fonda joined forces with cinematic innovator Jean-Luc Godard and collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin in an unholy artistic alliance that resulted i...
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1:28:16Episode 10
Every Man for Himself
Episode 10
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1980 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie BayeAfter a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commercial cinema with this star-driven work of social commentary, while remaining defiant...
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19:51Episode 11
All the Boys Are Called Patrick
Episode 11
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1957 • France
A man makes dates with two women on the same day without realizing that they are best friends.
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12:32Episode 12
Une histoire d'eau
Episode 12
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut • 1958 • France
In this short film, a young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.
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12:58Episode 13
Charlotte et son Jules
Episode 13
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1959 • France
A jilted man rants at his mostly silent former lover.
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52:32Episode 14
Letter to Jane
Episode 14
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin • 1972 • France
Soon after completing TOUT VA BIEN, actor Jane Fonda returned to her political activism and visited North Vietnam. The appearance of the “Hanoi Jane” photograph in the French magazine “L’Express” inspired filmmakers Jean-Pierre Go...