Jean-Luc Godard — Actor (50)

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories (1989)
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other title: Histoire(s) du cinéma 1a : toutes les histoires / Histoire(s) du cinéma 1a: todas las historias
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.

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The Married Woman (1964)
Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d'un film tourné en 1964
Jean-Luc Godard actor: Macha Méril / Bernard Noël …
other title: Una donna sposata / En gift kvinde …
A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.

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Cinématon (1978)
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Gérard Courant actor: Gérard Courant / Alain-Alcide Sudre …
Cinématon est une série cinématographique de portraits filmés montrant une personnalité des arts, de la culture ou du spectacle, en un seul gros plan fixe et muet de 3 minutes et demie, dans lesquels elle est libre de faire ce qu'elle veut.

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Le Gai Savoir (1969)
Le Gai Savoir
other title: La gaia scienza / Die fröhliche Wissenschaft …
Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions.

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Band of Outsiders (1964)
Bande à part
★ 7.8 8 ratings
Jean-Luc Godard actor: Anna Karina / Claude Brasseur …
other title: Bando à Parte / Die Außenseiterbande …
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory — which could be just what they want.

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The Lovely Month of May (1963)
Le Joli Mai
Chris Marker / Pierre Lhomme actor: Yves Montand / Chris Marker …
other title: Der schöne Mai / Le Joli Mai
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.

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Scheherazade (1963)
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Pierre Gaspard-Huit actor: 安娜·卡里娜 / Gérard Barray …
other title: Shéhérazade / 天方夜谭 …
Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.

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Fiancés on the Bridge (1961)
Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald ou (Méfiez-vous des lunettes noires)
other title: Die Verliebten von Pont Mac Donald / Les Fiancés du pont Mac Donald …
A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors. He removes the glasses to wipe his eyes and realizes they are the cause of all his woe. He replays the farewell without the glasses.

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Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux (2014)
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other title: Khan Khanne, sélection naturelle
Rather than writing a simple letter to explain his absence from the press conference for his latest Cannes entry, "Goodbye to Language," at the Cannes Film Festival, instead, legendary filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard created a video "Letter in motion to (Cannes president) Gilles Jacob and (artistic director) Thierry Fremaux." The video intercuts from Godard speaking cryptically about his "path" to key scenes from Godard classics such as "Alphaville" and "King Lear" with Burgess Meredith and Molly Ringwald, and quotes poet Jacques Prevert and philosopher Hannah Arendt.

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Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (1951)
Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak
other title: Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak / Presentación, o Charlotte y su bistec …
On a snowy day in a Swiss village, Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to spark jealousy. Later, at Charlotte’s home, tensions rise as they discuss beauty, attraction, and honesty. Despite initial resistance, emotions take over, leading to an unexpected moment of intimacy before their farewell.

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Fool’s Mate (1956)
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Jacques Rivette actor: Virginie Vitry / Anne Doat …
other title: Le Coup du berger / El mate del pastor
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?

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Lettre à Jane (1974)
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Jean-Luc Godard / Jean-Pierre Gorin actor: Jane Fonda / Jean-Luc Godard …
other title: Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was staged.

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Notre Musique (2004)
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Jean-Luc Godard actor: Sarah Adler / Nade Dieu …
other title: A Nossa Música / Notre musique …
A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war itself.

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Made in U.S.A (1967)
Made in U.S.A
other title: Una storia americana / Made in USA …
Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis, a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.