Back Jean-Luc Godard Afrikaans Jean-Luc Godard AN جان لوك غودار Arabic جان لوك جودار ARZ Jean-Luc Godard AST Jan-Lük Qodar Azerbaijani Жан-Люк Гадар Byelorussian Жан-Люк Годар Bulgarian জঁ-লুক গদার Bengali/Bangla Jean-Luc Godard Breton
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| Born | 3 December 1930 Paris, France |
| Died | 13 September 2022 (aged 91) Rolle, Switzerland |
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| Years active | 1950–2022 |
| Movement | French New Wave |
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| Partner | Anne-Marie Miéville (1978–2022; his death) |
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Jean-Luc Godard (UK: /ˈɡɒdɑːr/ GOD-ar, US: /ɡoʊˈdɑːr/ goh-DAR; French: [ʒɑ̃ lyk ɡɔdaʁ]; 3 December 1930 – 13 September 2022) 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,[1] 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.[2] According to AllMovie, his work "revolutionized the motion picture form" through its experimentation with narrative, continuity, sound, and camerawork.[2] His most acclaimed films include Breathless (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), Band of Outsiders (1964), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Masculin Féminin (1966), Weekend (1967) and Goodbye to Language (2014).[3][4]
During his early career as a film critic for the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Godard criticised mainstream French cinema's "Tradition of Quality", which de-emphasised innovation and experimentation.[5][1] In response, he and like-minded critics began to make their own films,[1] challenging the conventions of traditional Hollywood in addition to French cinema.[6] Godard first received global acclaim for his 1960 feature Breathless, helping to establish the New Wave movement.[2] His work makes use of frequent homages and references to film history, and often expressed his political views; he was an avid reader of existentialism[7] and Marxist philosophy, and in 1969 formed the Dziga Vertov Group with other radical filmmakers to promote political works.[8] After the New Wave, his politics were less radical, and his later films came to be about human conflict and artistic representation "from a humanist rather than Marxist perspective."[8]
Godard was married three times, to actresses Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky, both of whom starred in several of his films, and later to his longtime partner Anne-Marie Miéville.[9] His collaborations with Karina—which included such critically acclaimed films as Vivre sa vie (1962), Bande à part (1964) and Pierrot le Fou (1965)—were called "arguably the most influential body of work in the history of cinema" by Filmmaker magazine.[10] In a 2002 Sight & Sound poll, Godard ranked third in the critics' top ten directors of all time.[11] He is said to have "generated one of the largest bodies of critical analysis of any filmmaker since the mid-twentieth century."[12] His work has been central to narrative theory and has "challenged both commercial narrative cinema norms and film criticism's vocabulary."[13] In 2010, Godard was awarded an Academy Honorary Award.[14]
- ^ a b c Grant 2007, Vol. 3, p. 235.
- ^ a b c Ankeny, Jason. "Biography". AllMovie. Archived from the original on 2 August 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ^ Kehr, Dave; Kandell, Jonathan (13 September 2022). "Jean-Luc Godard, 91, Is Dead; Bold Director Shaped French New Wave". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- ^ "'Godard shattered cinema': Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute". The Guardian. 14 September 2022. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- ^ Grant 2007, Vol. 2, p. 259.
- ^ "Jean-Luc Godard". New Wave Film. Archived from the original on 22 July 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ David Sterritt. "40 Years Ago, 'Breathless' Was Hyperactive Anarchy. Now It's Part of the Canon". Archived from the original on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ a b Grant 2007, Vol. 3, p. 126.
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WaPo2022-09-13was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Zahedi, Caveh. "'Be Beautiful and Shut Up': Anna Karina on Filmmaking with Jean-Luc Godard". Filmmaker Magazine. Archived from the original on 28 December 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
- ^ "BFI – Sight & Sound – Top Ten Poll 2002 Poll – The Critics' Top Ten Directors". Archived from the original on 23 June 2011.
- ^ Grant 2007, Vol. 3, p. 238.
- ^ Grant 2007, Vol. 3, p. 202.
- ^ Freeman, Nate. "Godard Companion: Director Will Not Travel to Oscars for a 'Bit of Metal' | The New York Observer". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on 8 November 2010. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
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