The Return of the Classic Films Obituary Thread

[CBHagman]

33. Director Jean-Luc Godard, 91

From The New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/movies/jean-luc-godard-dead.html

When his first feature-length film as a director, “Breathless” (“À Bout de Souffle”), was released in 1960, Mr. Godard joined several of his Cahiers colleagues in a movement that the French press soon labeled la Nouvelle Vague — the New Wave.

For Mr. Godard, as well as for New Wave friends and associates like François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer, the “tradition of quality” represented by the established French cinema was an aesthetic dead end. To them it was strangled by literary influences and empty displays of craftsmanship that had to be vanquished to make room for a new cinema, one that sprang from the personality and predilections of the director.

His IMDB page:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000419/

And this is interesting: Two more Godard movies may be on the way!

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/1/vbb4ipo2mgtyvixutqeitpe1bp9irg