Jean-Luc Godard
- Introduction
- Jean-Luc Godard (UK: GOD-ar, US: goh-DAR; French: [ʒɑ̃ lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement, and is arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork.During his early career as a film critic for the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Godard criticized mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality", which emphasized established convention over innovation and experimentation. In response, he and like-minded critics began to make their own films, challenging the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema. Godard first received global acclaim for his 1960 feature Breathless, helping to establish the New Wave movement. His work makes use of frequent homages and references to film history, and often expressed his political views; he was an avid reader of existential and Marxist philosophy. Since the New Wave, his politics have been much less radical and his recent films are about representation and human conflict from a humanist, and a Marxist perspective.In a 2002 Sight & Sound poll, Godard ranked third in the critics' top ten directors of all time (which was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films for which the critics voted). He is said to have "created one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century." He and his work have been central to narrative theory and have "challenged both commercial narrative cinema norms and film criticism's vocabulary." In 2010, Godard was awarded an Academy Honorary Award, but did not attend the award ceremony. Godard's films have inspired many directors including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Steven Soderbergh, D. A. Pennebaker, Robert Altman, Jim Jarmusch, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wong Kar-wai, Wim Wenders, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.Through his father, he is the cousin of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, former President of Peru. He has been married twice, to actresses Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky, both of whom starred in several of his films. His collaborations with Karina—which included such critically acclaimed films as Vivre sa vie (1962), Bande à part (1964) and Pierrot le Fou (1965)—were called "arguably the most influential body of work in the history of cinema" by Filmmaker magazine.
- Wikidata
- Q53001
- Nationalities
- French, Swiss
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Film Director
- Names
- Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Luc Godard
- Ulan
- 500193556
Exhibitions
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Jean-Luc Godard Le Mépris 1963
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Jean-Luc Godard Vivre sa vie 1963
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Jean-Luc Godard Week-End 1967
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Comment ça va? (How's It Going?) 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 1A: Y a personne (Nobody's There) 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 1B: Louison 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 2A: Leçons de choses (Lessons About Things) 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 2B: Jean-Luc 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 3A: Photos et cie (Photos and Company) 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 3B: Marcel 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 4A: P'as d'histoire (No History) 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 4B: Nanas 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 5A: Nous Trois (We Three) 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 5B: René(e)s 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 6A: Avant et apres (Before and After) 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication, Part 6B: Jacqueline et Ludovic 1976
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville France/tour/détour/deux/enfants 1977-1978
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville France/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 1: Obscur/Chimie (Dark/Chemistry) 1978
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Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard France/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 2: Lumière/Physique (Light/Physics) 1978
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville France/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 3: Connu/Géométrie/Géographie (Known/Geometry/Geography) 1978
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville France/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 4: Inconnu/Technique (Unknown/Technique) 1978
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville France/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 5: Impression/Dictée (Impression/Dictation) 1978
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville France/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 6: Expression/Français (Expression/French) 1978
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville France/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 7: Violence/Grammaire (Violence/Grammar) 1978
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville France/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 8: Désordre/Calcul (Disorder/Calculus) 1978
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Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard France/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 9: Pouvoir/Musique (Power/Music) 1978
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Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard France/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 10: Roman/Economie (Romance/Economy) 1977-1978
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville France/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 11: Réalité/Logique (Reality/Logic) 1978
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville France/tour/détour/deux/enfants, Mouvement 12: Rêve/Morale (Dream/Morale) 1978
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Jean-Luc Godard Scénario du film Sauve qui peut (la vie) 1979
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Jean-Luc Godard Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Slow Motion) 1980
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Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Bernard Menoud, Anne-Marie Miéville, Pierre Binggeli Scénario du film Passion 1982
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Jean-Luc Godard Lettre à Freddy Buache (A Letter to Freddy Buache) 1982
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Jean-Luc Godard Changer d'image (To Alter the Image) 1982
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Jean-Luc Godard Petites notes à propos du film Je vous salue, Marie 1983
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville Soft and Hard (A Soft Conversation Between Two Friends on Hard Subjects) 1985
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Jean-Luc Godard The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (Grandeur et Decadence d'un Petit Commerce de Cinema) 1986
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Jean-Luc Godard Meetin' WA 1986
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Jean-Luc Godard Puissance de la parole 1988
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Jean-Luc Godard Histoire(s) du Cinéma, Chapter 1A: Toutes les histoires 1988
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Jean-Luc Godard Le Dernier mot/Les Français entendus par 1988
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Jean-Luc Godard L'enfance de l'art (The Infancy of Art) 1988
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Jean-Luc Godard On s'est tous défilé 1988
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Jean-Luc Godard Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Chapters 1A and 1B) 1988-1989
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Jean-Luc Godard, Vega Films Histoire(s) du Cinéma, Chapter 1B: Une histoire seule 1989
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Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville The Old Place 1999
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