Jean-Luc Godard, who died Tuesday at 91, was the filmmaker who changed everything. He directed “Breathless,” the 1960 landmark that helped to launch the French New Wave, employing a new, fast, leaping ...

Jean-Luc Godard was not a fan of conventional scripts. In line with his avant-garde methods, the French director resisted detailed write-ups and meticulous planning, preferring to hastily draft ...

It was exactly 50 years ago that a young French film director named Jean-Luc Godard tore the cinema wide open with his aptly titled debut feature, "Breathless." Godard's rapid-fire gangster flick and ...

The official synopsis for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague describes it as “the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made Breathless.” It’s a catchy pitch ...

French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard died Tuesday at the age of 91. A pioneer of the French New Wave movement, Godard is perhaps best known for his 1960 film Breathless, which stars Jean Seberg ...

What does Godard mean to us in 2008? It’s a question that’s surely been asked, or could have been asked, in any given year since 1960, but it’s one worth asking again now, certainly on the occasion of ...

"Breathless" producer Georges de Beauregard's estate is selling the previously unseen partial draft of Godard’s feature debut script. The only known (and previously unseen) handwritten partial ...

Nouvelle Vague', Richard Linklater channels Godard’s chaos into a film that celebrates imperfection as pure art.

Godard’s retro referentiality is incarnated by the famous moment in “Breathless” when Belmondo looks at an image of Humphrey Bogart, fingers his lip and says “Bogie,” almost as if he were saying the ...

So he did something that no previous filmmaker had, something akin to the way James Joyce took the back channels and byways of the human mind and put them right onto the page. Godard’s characters ...