Jean-Luc Godard, French New Wave cinema pioneer, dead at 91; Twitter mourns death of 'genius filmmaker'
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Jean-Luc Godard, French New Wave cinema pioneer, dead at 91; Twitter mourns death of 'genius filmmaker'

India TV News  

Jean-Luc Godard, an icon of French New Wave film who revolutionised popular 1960s cinema, has died, according to French media. Jean-Luc Godard iconic movies Throughout his career, Godard chose novelty and experimentation over convention. Godard and his French New Wave cinema contemporary François Truffaut were also responsible for the shutdown of the 1968 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Read: Joe Jonas spots Priyanka Chopra at TIFF, actress has the best reaction Twitter mourns death of 'icon' Jean-Luc Godard Godard was a cinema heavyweight, whose work and contribution to cinema history were unparalleled.

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Jean-Luc Godard crested the French New Wave
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Jean-Luc Godard crested the French New Wave

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 22, 2022 10:40 IST Filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard chose to end his life on September 13 at the age of 91 in his home in Rolle, Switzerland. This Protestant upbringing, notes biographer Antoine de Baecque, had a marked influence on “Godard’s relation to spirituality, but also to modesty, to money, to Switzerland, to nature, to isolation and withdrawal …

My Jean-Luc Godard movie marathon: How I watched his collected works, in chronological order
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My Jean-Luc Godard movie marathon: How I watched his collected works, in chronological order

LA Times  

I am one of the Godard-obsessed. An image from “Historie du Cinema.” The experience seeded what became my abiding interest in world cinema, Godard especially, and decades later my peculiar idea to watch in succession every movie he’d made. I don’t remember how I discovered Robert the movie bootlegger — EBay or something — but he claimed to have quality …

Iconic French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard dead at 91
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Iconic French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard dead at 91

Associated Press  

GENEVA — Jean-Luc Godard, the iconic “enfant terrible” of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema in 1960 with his first feature, “Breathless,” and stood for years among the film world’s most influential directors, died Tuesday. “Nearly all directors who have gone to film school today, or learned movie-making at cinematheques, have seen Godard’s films — and were amazed, …

Jean-Luc Godard: Father of French ‘New Wave’ cinema dies at 91
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Jean-Luc Godard: Father of French ‘New Wave’ cinema dies at 91

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 13, 2022 16:03 IST Jean-Luc Godard, the French-Swiss director whose movies broke with traditional cinema forms and gave way to the radical New Wave film movement of the 1960s, has died, according to French daily Le Monde. “He’s a pioneering multimedia artist who throughout his career worked with different media and platforms,” Michael Witt, the author of …

Iconic French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard dead at 91
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Iconic French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard dead at 91

Hindustan Times  

Jean-Luc Godard, the ingenious “enfant terrible” of the French New Wave who revolutionised popular cinema in 1960 with his debut feature Breathless and stood for years as one of the world's most vital and provocative directors has died, French media reported. His films propelled Jean-Paul Belmondo to stardom and his controversial modern nativity play Hail Mary grabbed headlines when Pope …

Appreciation: Jean-Luc Godard, a master of cinema who changed the medium forever
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Appreciation: Jean-Luc Godard, a master of cinema who changed the medium forever

LA Times  

Of all the endlessly quotable maxims and aphorisms that have poured from the mouth and the movies of Jean-Luc Godard — “All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun,” “The cinema is truth at 24 frames per second,” “A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, though not necessarily in that order” …

Jean-Luc Godard, French New Wave director, dies at 91
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Jean-Luc Godard, French New Wave director, dies at 91

LA Times  

Jean-Luc Godard, the influential French New Wave writer-director who broke new ground in cinematic expression in the 1960s with films such as “Breathless,” “Contempt” and “Weekend” and became a guiding light to fellow filmmakers throughout his more than six-decade career, has died. “Godard was one of the inventors of the auteur theory and perhaps the most rigorous of the New …

If you’re overdue for an intro to Jean-Luc Godard, here are 6 films to start with
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If you’re overdue for an intro to Jean-Luc Godard, here are 6 films to start with

LA Times  

The iconoclast at the epicenter of the French New Wave and one of film’s most influential makers, Jean-Luc Godard, who died Tuesday at 91, leaves behind a colossal legacy of more than 100 feature films, shorts and documentaries. Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Pierrot Le Fou.” Here are six features you can stream now to start your …

Jean-Luc Godard passes away: French President Emmanuel Macron & Hollywood celebs pay tribute
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Jean-Luc Godard passes away: French President Emmanuel Macron & Hollywood celebs pay tribute

India TV News  

Soon after news of French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard's death broke on Tuesday, tributes started pouring in from world leaders, fellow filmmakers, artistes and cinephiles around the world, reports 'Variety'. The first off the block was French President Emmanuel Macron, who described Godard as "the most iconoclastic of New Wave filmmakers, who had invented a resolutely modern, intensely free …

Film director Jean-Luc Godard of the French New Wave has died at 91
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Film director Jean-Luc Godard of the French New Wave has died at 91

NPR  

Film director Jean-Luc Godard of the French New Wave has died at 91 Enlarge this image toggle caption Jean-Jacques Levy/AP Jean-Jacques Levy/AP Influential critic and filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, has died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones at his home in the Swiss town of Rolle, on Lake Geneva, his family said in a statement. A leader of the French New Wave …

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