Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard was 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 was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era.
Breathless
as The SnitchA small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the...
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The 400 Blows
as (voice)(uncredited)For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded...
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Cléo from 5 to 7
as The Man with Black Glasses / Actor in Silent FilmAgnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer...
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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
as Narrator (voice)As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a...
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Contempt
as Lang's Assistant DirectorA philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of...
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The Married Woman
as The Narrator (voice) (uncredited)A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.
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Vivre Sa Vie
as The Lover Reading Poe (voice) (uncredited)Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
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Scheherazade
as HandwalkerSheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy...
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Band of Outsiders
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs...
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First Name: Carmen
as Uncle JeannotThe protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean,...
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Faces Places
as SelfDirector Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an...
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The Sparks Brothers
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell...
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The Image Book
as Narrator (voice)In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings,...
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Goodbye to Language
as Narrator (voice)The idea is simple / A married woman and a single man meet / They love, they argue, fists fly /...
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Paris Belongs to Us
as Hans LucasA young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved...
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Sign of the Lion
as Le Mélomane (uncredited)An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using...
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Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars
as Self/NarratorRejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and...
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Made in U.S.A
as Richard Politzer (voice) (uncredited)Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and...
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Godard Cinema
as SelfJean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he...
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Le Petit Soldat
as Man at Railway Station (uncredited)During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who...
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Notre Musique
as SelfA three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of...
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Far from Vietnam
as Self (segment "Camera Eye")In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their...
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma...
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Room 666
as SelfDuring the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of global film directors to, one at...
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A Story of Water
as NarratorA young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.
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The Fiancés of Macdonald Bridge
as Man with the Black GlassesA subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow...
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Close Up
as Self (archive footage)More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press...
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
as Man in Fez / Narrator (segment "Le Grand escroc") (uncredited)Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five...
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The Lovely Month of May
as Self (uncredited)Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in...
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Cinématon
as N°106Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in...
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as The ActorTwo housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue between Plato and...
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King Lear
as Professor PluggyA descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in...
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as Un voyageur qui sort de la Gare de l'Est (uncredited)Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon...
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Fool’s Mate
as Party guest (uncredited)Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story...
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The Dinosaur and the Baby
as SelfAn hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety...
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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks...
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Hail, Sarajevo
as NarratorA short two-minute rumination on the once volatile situation during the period of the Bosnian...
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Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
as Jules (voice) (uncredited)This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts...
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Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
as SelfA televisual journey guided by Jean-Luc Godard inside his film Sauve qui peut (la vie),...
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Anna Karina, Remember
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s....
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Paparazzi
as HimselfPaparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers...
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Here and Elsewhere
as Narrator (voice)Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a...
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Le Gai Savoir
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound...
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A German Youth
as (archive material)At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was...
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For Ever Mozart
as Man pretending to play soccer (uncredited)Episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo....
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Wind from the East
as Self (uncredited)A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an...
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Once Upon a Time… Contempt
as SelfFourty-six years since the release of Le mépris, Jean-Luc Godard watches the film again to...
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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
as SelfMade for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in...
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as WalterTwo young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a...
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Scénario du film Passion
as Narrator / SelfGodard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the...
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The Kreutzer Sonata
as Ami JournalisteSome time after marrying a sensual girl, Pozdnychev realizes the only link to his spouse is that...
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Meetin' WA
as SelfRevolutionary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard conducts a twenty-five minute interview...
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Filmmakers in Action
as Self (archive footage)What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to...
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Keep Your Right Up
as Idiot / PrinceThis film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional...
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The Defector
as Orlovsky's Friend (uncredited)An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a...
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Number Two
as Self (uncredited)Jean-Luc Godard mixes video and film in his Grenoble studio, discussing how he secured funding...
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After the Reconciliation
as RobertAn elderly couple and a younger man and woman follow up failed seduction attempts with...
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Reporters
as SelfThe co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press...
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Bardot et Godard
as HimselfA documentary short following director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Contempt.
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Belmondo, le magnifique
as Self (archive footage)With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe
as uncreditedPart 7 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates...
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Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
as Self (uncredited)Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he's still looking at the...
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Voices
as SelfDocumentary about Jean-Luc Godard filming Sympathy for the Devil with The Rolling Stones.
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How's It Going?
as Union Member (voice)During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist...
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Accomplice
as HimselfAn artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German...
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A Flirtatious Woman
as The Man Who Looks at the Balcony (uncredited)Agnès, a bourgeois young woman from Geneva, writes a letter to a friend, telling how she ended...
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JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
as SelfDirector Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction...
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Presentation of the Trailer of a Film "Scénario"
as uncreditedIn October 2021, Jean-Luc Godard presented his idea for Scénario, a 6 chapter feature film...
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Brunes et Blondes
as SelfActresses' hairstyle in movies always carries a strong aesthetic statement associated with...
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I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
as uncreditedContemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964...
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Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
as SelfA documentary, originally produced in 1966 for the French TV series "Pour le plaisir," about...
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Two in the Wave
as Self (archive footage)An in-depth analysis of the relationship between New Wave pioneers François Truffaut and...
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Godard by Godard
as Self (archive footage)Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and...
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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self (archive footage)This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on...
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Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
as Self (archive footage)An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud.
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave
as uncreditedPart 6 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us
as uncreditedPart 8 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates...
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Godard in America
as HimselfSpring 1970: Godard and Gorin, on the road, visiting colleges, speaking with Andrew Sarris, and...
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France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
as Robert LinardIn this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to...
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Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive
as HimselfJean-Luc Godard's acceptance video for the 2015 'Prix d’honneur'.
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
as SelfPart 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates...
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Tribute to Eric Rohmer
as uncreditedBrief, fragmented memories of Rohmer spoken by Godard, while the screen shows various titles of...
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ORG
as Self (archive footage)Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare...
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Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
as SelfThis documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features...
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La rouge et la noire
as Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)Carrying on Luc Moullets unfinished screenplay about the theft of la pénélope, a camera created...
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Carl Th. Dreyer
as Self (uncredited)A documentary about the famous Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, made a few years before he...
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The Children Play Russian
as The idiot: Prince MishkinA famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the...
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Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie'
as SelfNotes on the inception and making of Hail Mary.
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Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in...
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Vladimir and Rosa
as Vladimir Lenin (uncredited)Jean-Luc Godard's and Jean-Pierre Gorin's interpretation of the Chicago Eight / Chicago Seven...
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2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
as HimselfAt a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard....
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Sun in Your Eyes
as uncreditedA love triangle between 23-year-old Emma (Anna Karina), her older boyfriend (Georges Descrières)...
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Godard Made in USA
as Self (archive footage)Documentary by Luc Lagier exploring Godard's career as a filmmaker, the production of Breathless...
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1 P.M.
as SelfLighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration...
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Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte
as uncredited1951. André Bazin and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze founded "Cahiers du cinéma". With contributions...
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A Letter to Freddy Buache
as HimselfThis short film is Godard’s message to the people of Lausanne, specifically journalist and...
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Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making
as HimselfJean-Luc Godard visits NYU in order to discuss his latest feature "La chinoise" with graduate...
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Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
as Self (voice) (archive footage)Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television...
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The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
as SelfThis documentary reunites director Peter Lennon and cinematographer Raoul Coutard, who recount...
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Lovers
as Self (archive footage)A short film that endeavors to capture & portray the love between iconic couples Jane Birkin &...
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Say God Bye
as Self (JLG)Fascinated by the already legendary filmmaker, as a teenager Thomas dreamed of becoming his...
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Spot of the 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF
as HimselfThe author of the official spot of the 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF 2018 is the renowned Swiss/French New...
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For Jack, From Hell
as Self (archive footage)A monologue about Jack The Ripper and his heritage.
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Operation Concrete
as Narrator (voice)Godard returned to Paris briefly before getting a job as a construction worker on a dam project...
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Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)
as uncreditedDirector Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction...
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Scénarios
as SelfIn French, "scénario" is cinema's name for how it tells stories. This is the title Jean-Luc...
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Willing
as Self (uncredited)A young, unscrupulous director hires an actress and uses the story she tells him of her life to...
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Death
as Himself (voice)A voice recycles paintings, films, quotes and archives and guides the viewer into a reflection...
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Film catastrophe
as himselfIn 2010, Godard's Film Socialisme explores the sinking of political ideals in Europe. In 2012,...
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Vrai faux passeport
as uncreditedA dense work, citing everyone from Tarantino and Verhoeven to Artaud and Chaplin, made for...
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Routine Pleasures
as Himself (Archive photos)Jean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor,...
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Memória Cubana
as Self (archive footage)Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the...
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Jean-Luc Godard interview by Serge Daney
as SelfJean-Luc Godard interviewed by French Critic Serge Daney at the time when Godard was working on...
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Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 10
as uncreditedLesson of October 7, 1978 (class #10). Films discussed : Battleship Potemkin (Sergei...
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Godard 1980
as As HimselfThe famous French film director Jean-Luc Godard is interviewed by British film theorist Peter...
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See You Friday, Robinson
as Himself"We should start with a correspondence, maybe we will not correspond to one another. Ebrahim can...
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Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux
as HimselfRather than writing a simple letter to explain his absence from the press conference for his...
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Jean-Luc Godard, Disorder Exposed
as Self (archive footage)The film retraces Jean-Luc Godard's notorious exhibition at the Centre national d'art et de...
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Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 11
as uncreditedLesson of October 13, 1978 (course #11). Films discussed: Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931), Germany...
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The Quadrille
as SelfThough Godard got a little money from his family, he admitted that the money that went into...
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Only Godard
as SelfHow do you craft the portrait of Jean-Luc Godard, or better yet a portrait of his methodology,...
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One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
as HimselfShort film, going behind-the-scenes of shooting for One Plus One (1968) in London, featuring an...
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Marcel Ophuls et Jean-Luc Godard, La rencontre de St-Gervais
as SelfIn 2009, in a small theater in Geneva, Switzerland, the film directors Marcel Ophuls and...
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Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 1
as uncreditedLesson of April 14, 1978 (class #1) Films discussed: Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger, 1945),...
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The Staircase Wall
as Self (voice, archive footage)An experiment in activity, dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard and assembled in the immediate wake of...
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JLG\PG
as HimselfA movie about the contempt of the man who recorded the contempt.
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The Three Disasters
as NarratorShort film originally made as part of the anthology film, 3x3D. Jean-Luc Godard's first 3-D film...
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Four Short Films
as NarratorJean-Luc Godard, and Anne-Marie Miéville Four Short Films
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Godard / Sollers : L’entretien
as uncreditedJean-Luc Godard and Philippe Sollers meet in Paris to discuss Godard's film Je vous salue,...
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Soft and Hard
as SelfJean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks...
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Printtemps
as Self (archival footage)For Jean-Luc Godard, with all the admiration and affection of Jacques Perconte and Nicole...
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Conversation with JLG
as SelfAn interview with Jean-Luc Godard by Dominique Maillet and Pierre-Henri Gibert, filmed on August...
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What's Wrong With The World
as (voice)A reworking of extracts from Andre Malraux, Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou, and GK Chesterton.
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Noises From The Agora
as HimselfFootball, betting, agriculture, technology, conspiracy theories and the second round of one of...
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Marguerite as She Was
as uncreditedOn June 3, 1991, Marguerite Duras gave me her last published work, "The North China Lover",...
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Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française
as uncreditedAfter offering spectators a projection/comparison of extracts from 17 films (each time, the...
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Brève rencontre avec Jean-Luc Godard ou le cinéma comme métaphore
as HimselfAn interview with Jean-Luc Godard around the time of his film Notre Musique.
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G(ode)ard
as JLGAn experimental tribute to Jean-Luc Godard, his documentary works and his insights in our modern...
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Alianças Profanas
as uncreditedDuring the quarantine promoted by the Coronavirus, hundreds of videos posted on Darwin's...
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The Darty Report
as Nathanael, the 2000 year-old robotA daring deconstruction of consumerist behavior featuring a robot and Miss Clio Darty, with a...
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Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville on Google StreetView
as SelfA short film utilizing Google Maps' StreetView feature where Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie...
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Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard
as SelfA talk with Alexander Kluge and Jean-Luc Godard.
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The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One'
as himselfA short film Mike Dibb directed for the BBC in July 1968 in Cowdray Park, where Godard was...
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September September
as (archive footage)"[This film] embodies (...) one of his [Hahnemann's] most mature films. Rainy rides along...
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Zoom: Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
as SelfFilmmaker Jean-Luc Godard engages in a sociopolitical debate with French government official...
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Apostrophes
as SelfApostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and...
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Bambi Awards
as SelfThe Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...
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Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication
as SelfIn this radically unconventional television series, Godard and Miéville analyze the political...
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Histoire(s) du cinéma
as SelfAn 8-part documentary chronicling the history of cinema, examining the history of the concept of...
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Série noire
as Self (uncredited)Série noire is a French crime television series created by Pierre Grimblat in 1984. The series...
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France/tour/détour/deux/enfants
as Robert Linard (uncredited)A series in which the auteur interrogates a boy and a girl from two families in an attempt to...
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