Jean-Luc Godard — Director (58)
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Origins of the 21st Century (2000)
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Jean-Luc Godard actor: Pierre Guyotat / Ronald Chammah
other title: De l'origine du XXIe siècle
Commissioned by the heads of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival to make an opening-night short commemorating cinema as it enters its second full century, Godard instead offers up a 17-minute barrage of re-edited footage of wars and Nazi atrocities, interspersed with clips of Maurice Chevalier in "Gigi" and Godard's own "À bout de souffle."
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The Power of Speech (1988)
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Jean-Luc Godard actor: Jean Bouise / Laurence Côte …
other title: Puissance de la parole / Power of the Speech
Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many different contexts, sometimes bearing a similar significance to the original material or even creating an alternate context.
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The Darty Report (1989)
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Anne-Marie Miéville / Jean-Luc Godard actor: Anne-Marie Miéville / Jean-Luc Godard
other title: Le Rapport Darty
A daring deconstruction of consumerist behavior featuring a robot and Miss Clio Darty, with a voiceover by Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, this philosophical "report," like so many of Godard's commissions, was rejected by its funders.
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A Flirtatious Woman (1955)
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Jean-Luc Godard actor: Maria Lysandre / Roland Tolmatchoff …
other title: Uma Mulher Faceira / Une femme coquette
Agnès, a bourgeois young woman from Geneva, writes a letter to a friend, telling how she ended up cheating on her husband. Fascinated by the attitudes and gestures adopted by a prostitute to attract clients, Agnès decides to imitate her and seduces the first man she sees, sitting on a garden bench.
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Wind from the East (1970)
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Jean-Luc Godard / Jean-Pierre Gorin … actor: Gian Maria Volonté / Anne Wiazemsky …
other title: Vento dell'est / Os Ventos de Este …
A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.
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How's It Going? (1978)
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Anne-Marie Miéville / Jean-Luc Godard actor: Michel Marot / Anne-Marie Miéville …
other title: Comment ça va ? / How Is It Going? …
During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist activist discuss how to present their information, especially how to caption two specific images: one of a protest in Portugal, the other of a strike in France. One of them decides to write to his son, a manual worker living outside of Paris with his girlfriend, telling the young man about his troubles.
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Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication (1976)
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Anne-Marie Miéville / Jean-Luc Godard actor: Jean-Luc Godard / Anne-Marie Miéville
1976. Jean-Luc Godard et Anne-Marie Miéville adoptent l'outil télévision pour mieux en dénoncer le contenu. Ils réalisent à Grenoble en 1975-1976 une série de six programmes de cent minutes, divisés chacun en deux émissions, pensée en vue d'une diffusion destinée au plus grand nombre. Véritable réflexion sur les moyens de communication, la série dénonce les médias « qui étouffent le vrai » pour proposer en contrepartie une télévision autre, plus proche des réalités sociales et plus critique.
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Struggle in Italy (1971)
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Jean-Luc Godard / Jean-Pierre Gorin actor: Cristiana Tullio-Altan / Paolo Pozzesi …
other title: Lotte in Italia / Luttes en Italie …
The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology.
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Here and Elsewhere (1976)
Ici et Ailleurs
Anne-Marie Miéville / Jean-Luc Godard actor: Jean-Luc Godard / Anne-Marie Miéville
other title: Hier und anderswo / Ici et Ailleurs …
Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home. Originally shot by the Dziga Vertov Group as a film on Palestinian freedom fighters, Godard later reworked the material alongside Anne-Marie Miéville.
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Cinétracts (1968)
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Jean-Luc Godard / Alain Resnais …
En mai 1968, des cinéastes amateurs et professionnels réalisent des films militants, muets, en noir et blanc. Tournés-montés, ces ciné-tracts sont diffusés dans la journée aux activistes.
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Aria (1987)
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Franc Roddam / Nicolas Roeg … actor: John Hurt / Theresa Russell …
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
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Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie' (1979)
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Jean-Luc Godard actor: Nathalie Baye / Jacques Dutronc …
other title: Quelques remarques sur la réalisation et la production du film 'Sauve qui peut (la vie)' / Quelques remarques sur la réalisation et la production du film 'Sauve qui peut
Jean-Luc Godard proposes a diary of his creative process. Looking at photos of three actors, Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, and Miou-Miou, who were previously cast to play in "Sauve qui peut (la vie)," Godard speaks about great image makers: Dreyer and Wim Wenders, the painters Edward Hopper and Pierre Bonnard.
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Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
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Jean-Luc Godard actor: Mick Jagger / Keith Richards …
other title: One + One / Sympathy For The Devil (One Plus One) …
While The Rolling Stones rehearse "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio, an alternating narrative reflects on 1968 society, politics and culture through five different vignettes.
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The French as Seen by… (1988)
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Werner Herzog / Jean-Luc Godard … actor: Ève Ruggieri / Jean Clemente …
other title: Les Français vus par
In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary. Includes: Werner Herzog's Les Gaulois, David Lynch's The Cowboy and the Frenchman, Andrzej Wajda's Proust contre la déchéance, Luigi Comencini's Pèlerinage à Agen, Jean-Luc Godard's Le dernier mot.