Cast: Jean-Luc Godard

Direction Anne-Marie Miéville

Cast Aurore Clément · Bernadette Lafont · Jean-Luc Godard · Vincent Babel

Synopsis Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue of Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work, the husband of one of them rehearses his part in a play (reading a 20th century philosophical text about totaliarism) at the...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Luc Godard · Jean-Pierre Gos · Alain Cuny · Juliette Binoche

Synopsis TV Series (1988-1998). Cinematic visionary and provocateur Jean-Luc Godard offers a typically challenging look at his favorite creative medium in the wake of the 20th Century in this ambitious blend of film, video, and collage. Moments Choisis des Histoire(s) du...

Direction Anne-Marie Miéville

Cast Claude Perron · Anne-Marie Miéville · Jacques Spiesser · Jean-Luc Godard

Synopsis A middle-aged woman (Mieville) and her younger, attractive friend Cathos (Claude Perron) return home from an evening out with elderly Robert (Jean-Luc Godard). After Cathos makes a vain attempt to seduce Robert, the older woman steps out to buy cigarettes....

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Jean Seberg · Daniel Boulanger · Henri-Jacques Huet

Synopsis The first feature film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, Breathless is story of the love between Michel Poiccard, a small-time hood wanted for killing a cop, and Patricia Franchini, an...

Direction Agnès Varda

Cast Corinne Marchand · Antoine Bourseiller · Dorothée Blanck · Loye Payen

Synopsis Cleo From 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that Cleo, a pop singer, awaits the results of her tests...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Brigitte Bardot · Michel Piccoli · Jack Palance · Georgia Moll

Synopsis French playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is hired by the arrogant American producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) to rewrite the screenplay of a commercial version of Ulysses and his Odyssey, to be directed by famous german director Fritz Lang (Fritz...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Luc Godard

Synopsis Vrai faux passeport was produced by Godard as part of the Pompidou Center retrospective and the Voyages en Utopie exhibition held in Paris in 2006. The film opened the film retrospective -one of the most complete dedicated to Godard until...

Direction Claude Lelouch · Agnès Varda · Jean-Luc Godard · Chris Marker

Cast Anne Bellec · Karen Blanguernon · Bernard Fresson · Maurice Garrel

Synopsis Seven directors combine efforts for this documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnes Varda, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc Goddard all direct segments. They are quick to point out...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Luc Godard

Direction Agnès Varda · Jean René

Cast Jean-Luc Godard · Jean René · Laurent Levesque · Agnès Varda

Synopsis Agnès Varda and JR have similarities: a passion and questioning of images in general and more precisely on the places and the devices to show them, to share them, to expose them. Agnes chose the cinema. JR chose to create...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Luc Godard · Geneviève Pasquier · Denis Jadót · Brigitte Bastien

Synopsis 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 act of creating art.

Direction André S. Labarthe

Cast Fritz Lang · Jean-Luc Godard · Howard Vernon

Direction Bertrand Tavernier

Cast Bertrand Tavernier · Thierry Fremaux · Jacques Becker · Jean-Paul Belmondo

Synopsis Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Luc Godard

Synopsis A two-minute rumination on the once volatile situation during the period of the Bosnian War, presented in the form of a photo-montage with accompanying text. In the film, Godard takes a single photograph and shows us a series of close-up...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Sandrine Battistella · Jean-Luc Godard · Pierre Oudrey · Alexandre Rignault

Synopsis Experimental film about a young family in a social housing complex in France. The film uses a distinct style by presenting two images on screen simultaneously, leading to multiple interpretations of the story and to comments on the film-making and...

Direction Jean-Luc Godard · Anne-Marie Miéville

Cast Jean-Luc Godard · Dominique Jacquet · Michel Piccoli · Cécile Reigher

Synopsis At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Betty Schneider · Giani Esposito · Françoise Prévost · Daniel Crohem

Synopsis Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism, and Gerard Lenz, a theatre director who arrives with...

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Jess Hahn · Van Doude · Michèle Girardon · Jean Le Poulain

Synopsis Pierre Wesserlin (Jess Hahn) is a 39 old American composer, who lives a reckless, bohemian life in Paris. One morning he receives a telegram notifying him that his wealthy aunt has died. Assuming that he will inherit her fortune, he...

Direction Jacques Perconte · Nicole Brenez

Cast Jean-Luc Godard

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Virginie Vitry · Jacques Doniol-Valcroze · Jean-Claude Brialy · Anne Doat

Synopsis This short by Jacques Rivette is often cited as the first film of the French New Wave. It was co-written by Claude Chabrol, Jean-Marie Straub was the assistant director and there are cameos by François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Chabrol and...