Jean-Luc Godard

Part 5 of Godard’s 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century.

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years ...

Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue between Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work. The husband of ...

This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially ...

A reworking of extracts from Andre Malraux, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou, and GK Chesterton.

At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema’s birthday be ...

Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the ...

Documentary about Carl Theodor Dreyer and his film Gertrud.

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, ...

Claude Ventura’s documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room ...

A short two-minute rumination on the once volatile situation during the period of the Bosnian War presented in the form of a photo-montage with ...

An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays ...

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years ...

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years ...

A daring deconstruction of consumerist behavior featuring a robot and Miss Clio Darty, with a voiceover by Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, this ...

A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human ...

Jean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor, artist/writer Manny Farber.

Revolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview with influential and acclaimed American director ...

“[This film] embodies (…) one of his [Hahnemann’s] most mature films. Rainy rides along Schönhauser Allee, which seems to be ...

After offering spectators a projection/comparison of extracts from 17 films (each time, the first 5 minutes of their second reel) entitled ...

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house.

Jean-Luc Godard and Philippe Sollers meet in Paris to discuss Godard’s film Je vous salue, Marie, and many other things.

This short film is Godard’s message to the people of Lausanne, specifically journalist and critic Freddy Buache, addressing his reasons why he ...

Notes on the inception and making of Hail Mary.

During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders asked a number of global film directors to, one at a time, go into a hotel room, turn on the ...

Notes on the movie Passion

1981: at the moment the left won power, French television commissioned Godard to make a film on the theme of change. Like Lettre à Freddy Buache, ...

Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. “I didn’t want to ...

Reel 11 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.