Jean-Luc Godard

Spring Breakers Review: Godard Meets Girls Gone Wild

Top 10 Films of 2012

More than ever, boiling this concluding year down to the 10 "best" movies feels both arbitrary and reductive. Ideally, I'd have 25 unnumbered slots. I'd cite another five, formally varied nonfiction films: Tchoupitoulas, Detropia, The Ambassador, Only the Young and How to Survive a Plague. And were ... More >>

Movie Violence Has Never Been Better. But Here's the Problem...

Part of the renascent body-count action industry, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning mere existence might shock many Americans. "There are four Universal Soldier movies?" those shocked Americans would say. They might also be taken aback by the bracing violence that marks the film from stem to stern ... More >>

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Tom Cruise, Algeria and the End of the World

Champale: The Champagne of Malt Liquors [Video]

Hey, baby. It's been a long week, but it's Friday afternoon. Time to kick off those shoulder pads, slip into the bathtub and pour a glass of cool Champale. What? Don't remember Champale? Why, it's the Champagne of malt liquors, a fizzy concoction that was pitched as the poor man's Champagne. (It's p ... More >>

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Melies, Minnelli and Huppert x 2

Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme Reviewed

The French New Wave master's new — and allegedly last — film

Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend at Cinefamily

Godard's '60s Revisited: The Rebirth of Cool

Funny, You Don't Look Witty

Film Review: Every Man for Himself at LACMA

Jean-Luc Godard's second first film

DIRECTLY SPEAKING

Godard, American-Style

Richard Gere as hunk-pinup in Jim McBride's '80s remake of Breathless

Same As It Ever Was

Don't give up on Jean-Luc Godard: His alleged final film continues a career-long conversation

Sleepless in Toronto

Self-curation as self-protection at TIFF

Restrepo: Film Is a Battlefield

Journalist-filmmakers go to war

Regard From Cannes

Hollywood stars and name-brand Euro auteurs are conquered by Carlos the Jackal,Thai magical realism and a whole lot of Romanians

Breathless: The Dying Animal

Will the uninitiated breathe new life into Godard's 50-years-young classic?

ANNA LE BANANE

Godard, zombies and the economy: ColCoa French film festival starts tonight

This post is by Doug Cummings, author of the world cinema blog FilmJourney.org. ​ Since 1996, the annual City of Lights, City of Angeles film festival has offered a week of North American and world premieres of new French films along with an array of public discussions and events. It's known ... More >>

Sexual Politics: Godard and Me

Anna Karina reminisces on life, work and beyond with the writer-director

Critical Mass

LACMA's three-weekend series spotlights the disparate passions of late, great film critic Manny Farber

Anna Karina Speaks (and dances and sings)

​ Talking to David Ehrenstein in today's edition of the Weekly, 60s icon Anna Karina reminisces about her life and work as the wife/muse of French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard (a restored print of one of their greatest collaborations, Pierrot le Fou, screens next week as part of the City ... More >>

Wheels of History: The Bicycle Thief returns in a new 35mm print

Brassed On: Rediscovering the Indiscreet Charms of an Italian Softcore Maestro’s Early Work

Let It Rip

Another New York-only (for now) film retrospective that will, with any luck, eventually make its way West centers around the volatile, Texas-born character actor Rip Torn and, in particular, the rarely screened independent and underground cinematic experiments (including two films directed by Norman ... More >>

Made in USA: Godard’s Least-Seen Noir Plot-Scrambler Gets Another Run

“We were in a political movie ... Walt Disney with blood”

Contempt: Scenes From a Marriage, and a Movie

Re-released again, film remains as perfectly devastating as ever

Cannes 2008: A Brief History of the Directors' Fortnight

Inside the other Cannes

The Voodoo Lounge: Love Songs; Shine a Light

Where Honore, Godard, Scorsese and the Stones all have a place at the table

Dispatch from the European Film Awards

Wonderful whores

AFI Film Fest 2007: Behind the Man Behind the Scenes

Man of Cinema raises the curtain on a little-known movie giant

Pierrot Le Fou

Two or Three Things I Know About Her

Jean-Luc Godard’s 1966 masterpiece

Histoire(s) Du Cinema

Picks for Sunday, February 12

Sunday, February 12

Top 10, er, 12 Movies of the Year

Strangers in the Same Land

Jean-Luc Godard’s Notre Musique

The World Comes to Toronto

As do the rest of us

Please, Sir, I Want Some Moore

Post cards from Cannes

Lands of Milk and Honey

Millennium Mambo and James’ Journey to Jerusalem

Land of Milk and Honey

Millennium Mambo and James’ Journey to Jerusalem

The Rise of Anthony Lane

Andy and Pauline get laid

In the Mood for Wong Kar-wai

The year’s best films

Wyatt Earp and the Witchfinder General

Band Plays On

The buoyant early Godard

Wounds That Heal

Art and history at the 54th Cannes film festival

Introducing, at Last, the American Cinematheque

Akira Kurosawa - 1910-1918