It’s the End of an Era of Great European Cinema. Or Is It? After the deaths of Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Marie Straub, the medium still thrums with life.
Godard Taught Me How to Watch Cinema, Even as He Kept Reinventing It Jean-Luc Godard was a prophet of film’s future as an art form, layering images and sound that the body could sink into and the mind could puzzle through.
Jean-Luc Godard, Daring Director Who Shaped the French New Wave, Dies at 91 The Franco-Swiss filmmaker and provocateur radically rethought motion pictures and left a lasting influence on the medium.
9 Great Godard Films to Stream Now From the youthful New Wave excitement of “Breathless” to the experimental works of his old age, Godard changed cinema.