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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Demy. He was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion pict…
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entertainment · French and Swiss film director (1930–2022) · film director · actor · screenwriter · cinematographer · film producer · film editor · writer · film critic · television director · television producer · also Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Luc Godard, Godard
Born 3 December 1930 · Died 13 September 2022 · Q53001
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2026· 9 entries
“multiple disabling pathologies”
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“a film in which individuals are considered as things, in which chases in a taxi alternate with ethological interviews, in which the spectacle of life is intermingled with its analysis”
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“Not one, whether by Milos, myself, Roman or François. There are none. We”
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“connected with the violence and loneliness that lie so close to happiness today. It”
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Artsy: Gabriel Godard: The Poetry of Landscape and Light
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Jean-Luc Godard - French New Wave, Filmmaker, Auteur
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Midwest Film Journal: Fritz on Fridays: Lang as Odysseus in Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Contempt’
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The Guardian: ‘I have Yes tattooed on my foot!’ Zoey Deutch on playing Jean Seberg in a joyous celebration of Godard classic Breathless
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2025· 3 entries
The Guardian: Kleptomania, family feuds and Europe’s tallest dam: the strange story of Jean-Luc Godard’s debut film
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The Guardian: Only known script of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless to be auctioned online
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The Guardian: From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film-makers
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: Breathless goodbye: the race to finish Jean-Luc Godard’s last film, one day before he died
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The Guardian: Scénarios review – Jean-Luc Godard collage is his final love letter to cinema
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The Guardian: Cannes to premiere Jean-Luc Godard film finished the day before he died
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2022· 14 entries
The Guardian: Jean-Luc Godard remembered by Caroline Champetier
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The Guardian: Letter: Jean-Luc Godard obituary
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The Guardian: Jean-Luc Godard’s films teach us to demand more from the lives we’re given | Lynsey Hanley
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The Guardian: Steve Bell on the death of film-maker Jean-Luc Godard – cartoon
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The Guardian: ‘Godard shattered cinema’: Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute
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Died 2022-09-13.
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“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
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“The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.”
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“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”
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“To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body—both go together, they can’t be separated.”
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“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.”
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“Film begins with D. W. Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.”
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“I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.”
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2020· 1 entry
Godard told Les Inrockuptibles that his new film would be about a Yellow vest protestor, and indicated that along with archival footage "there will also be a shoot
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Palme d'Or for The Image Book (2018).
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2017· 1 entry
Michel Hazanavicius directed a film about Godard, Redoubtable, based on the memoir One Year After (French: Un an après; 2015) by Wiazemsky
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Jury Prize for Goodbye to Language (2014).
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2013· 1 entry
Godard released the short Les trois désastres (The Three Disasters) as part of the omnibus film 3X3D with filmmakers Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pera
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2011).
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2010· 2 entries
Godard was awarded an Academy Honorary Award
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In the lead-up to the presentation of Godard's honorary Oscar, a prominent article in The New York Times by Michael Cieply drew attention to the idea, which had been circulating through the press in previous weeks, that
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (2007).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2002).
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2001· 2 entries
Éloge de l'amour (In Praise of Love) was released
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Ebert recalled his early days as a critic, writing "As much as we talked about Tarantino after Pulp Fiction, we talked about Godard in those days
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary César (1998).
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Leopard of Honour (1995).
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Awarded Theodor W. Adorno Award (1995).
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1991· 1 entry
“Journal entry, (16 May 1991)”
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1990· 1 entry
Godard was presented with a special award from the National Society of Film Critics
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1987· 4 entries
Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for Keep Your Right Up (1987).
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Awarded Honorary César (1987).
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Was a segment in the film Aria which was based loosely from the plot of Armide; it is set in a gym and uses several arias by Jean-Baptiste Lully from his famous Armide
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And 1998, he was honoured with two Honorary César
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1983· 1 entry
Won Golden Lion for First Name: Carmen (1983).
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1982· 1 entry
Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (1982).
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1980· 1 entry
Anne-Marie Miéville remained an important collaborator
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1978· 1 entry
Godard was commissioned by the Mozambican government to make a short film
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1976· 1 entry
Godard and Miéville, his future wife, collaborated on a series of innovative video works for European broadcast television, titled Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication (1976) and France/tour/détour/deux/enfants (19
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1972· 1 entry
Godard and his life partner, Swiss filmmaker, Anne-Marie Miéville started the alternative video production and distribution company Sonimage, based in Grenoble
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1970· 2 entries
Collaborated personally and professionally with Anne-Marie Miéville
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Godard travelled to the Middle East to make a pro-Palestinian film he did not complete and whose footage eventually became part of the 1976 film Ici et ailleurs
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1969· 2 entries
Formed the Dziga Vertov Group with other radical filmmakers to promote political works
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Film critic Roger Ebert wrote about Godard's importance in cinema:
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1965· 3 entries
Won Sutherland Trophy for Pierrot le Fou (1965).
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Won Golden Bear for Alphaville (1965).
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Godard directed Alphaville, a blend of science fiction, film noir and satire
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1964· 1 entry
Godard and Karina formed a production company, Anouchka Films
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1962· 1 entry
Earned Silver Lion for My Life to Live (1962).
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1961· 1 entry
Earned Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for A Woman Is a Woman (1961).
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1960· 2 entries
Earned Silver Bear for Best Director for Breathless (1960).
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Godard shot Le petit soldat (The Little Soldier)
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1958· 2 entries
"the Michel Simon and the Jules Berry of tomorrow
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Godard, with a cast that included Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anne Colette, made his last short before gaining international prominence as a filmmaker, Charlotte et son Jules, an homage to Jean Cocteau
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1956· 1 entry
When Otto Preminger had chosen her to play Joan of Arc in his Saint Joan, and had then cast her in his 1958 adaptation of Bonjour Tristesse
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1951· 1 entry
(a seminal publication on cinema and its main observers and participants), Godard was the first of the younger critics from the CCQL/Cinémathèque group to be published
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1946· 1 entry
Went to study at the Lycée Buffon in Paris and, through family connections, mixed with members of its cultural elite
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1930· 1 entry
Born 1930-12-03.
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