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Jean-Luc Godard

Born December 3, 1930 (1930-12-03) (age 77)
Paris, France
Occupation director, screenwriter, editor, actor, producer, cinematographer
Years active 1950 - present
Spouse(s) Anna Karina (1961-1967)
Anne Wiazemsky (1967-1979)
Anne-Marie Miéville

Jean-Luc Godard (French pronounced [ʒɑ̃lyk gɔˈdaʀ]) was born on December 3, 1930. Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The year 1950 in film involved some significant events Events February 15 - Walt Disney Studios Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; September 22, 1940) is a Danish -born French Film Actress. Princess Anne Wiazemsky (born 14 May 1947 in Berlin, West Germany) is a French Actress, of the Russian Rurikid Anne-Marie Miéville (born 11 November 1945 in Lausanne) is a Swiss Filmmaker, principally known for her work with partner Jean-Luc Godard He is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave". A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. "Nouvelle Vague" redirects here For the music group of the same name see Nouvelle Vague (band.

Godard was born to Franco-Swiss parents in Paris. Legal residents and citizens To be French according to the first article of the Constitution is to be a citizen of France regardless of one's origin race or religion ( Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city He attended school in Nyon, Switzerland, and at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in Paris. Nyon is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation The historic University of Paris (Université de Paris first appeared in the second half of the 13th century During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and film theorists that gave birth to the New Wave.

Many of Godard's films challenged the conventions of Hollywood cinema, and he was often considered the most extreme New Wave filmmaker. United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century His films often expressed his political ideologies as well as his knowledge of film history. The history of film spans over a hundred years from the latter part of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. In addition, Godard's films often cited existential and Marxist philosophy. Existentialism is a philosophical doctrine which posits that individuals create the meaning and essence of their lives and that this essence follows from their existence See also Marxian economics, Marxism Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are terms which cover work in Philosophy

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Cahiers and early films

After attending school in Nyon, Godard returned to Paris in 1948. It was there, in the Latin Quarter just prior to 1950, that Paris ciné-clubs were gaining prominence. Godard began attending these clubs, where he soon met the man who was perhaps most responsible for the birth of the New Wave, André Bazin, as well as those who would become his contemporaries, including Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rozier, and Jacques Demy. André Bazin ( April 18, 1918 &ndash November 11, 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film Jacques Rivette (born March 1, 1928) is a French Film director. Claude Chabrol (klod ʃaˈbʁɔl in French (born 24 June 1930 Paris) is a French film director and has become well-known since his first film François Roland Truffaut ( February 6 1932 – October 21 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking Jacques Rozier (born in 1926 in Paris) is a French Film director and Screenwriter. Jacques Demy ( June 5, 1931 – October 27, 1990) was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New

Despite its intricate manifesto, the guiding principle behind the movement was that "Realism is the essence of cinema. " According to Bazin and other members of the New Wave, cinematic realism could be achieved through various aesthetic and contextual media. They favored long, deep-focus shots that embodied a more complete scene, where visual information could be transmitted consistently, and avoided "unnecessary editing"; they did not want to disrupt the illusion of reality by constant cuts. This technique can be seen in some of Godard's most celebrated action sequences.

An interesting aspect of Godard's philosophy on filmmaking was his inherent and deliberate embrace of contradiction. In short, Godard used "mass-market" aesthetics in his film to make a statement about capitalism and consequent societal decline. Aesthetics or esthetics ( also spelled æsthetics) is commonly known as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values sometimes called

His approach to film began in the field of criticism. Film review redirects here for the similar sounding Film revue please visit Revue#Film revues. Along with Éric Rohmer and Rivette, he founded the film journal, Gazette du cinéma, which saw publication of five issues in 1950. Éric Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer, 4 April 1920 Tulle, France) is a French Film director and Screenwriter. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. When André Bazin founded his critical magazine Cahiers du cinéma in 1951, Godard, with Rivette and Rohmer, were among the first writers. André Bazin ( April 18, 1918 &ndash November 11, 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film Cahiers du cinéma ( Notebooks on Cinema;) is an influential French Film Magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Most of the writers for Cahiers du cinéma started making some brief forays into film direction in the years before 1960. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Godard, while taking a job as a construction worker on a dam in 1953, shot a documentary about the building, Opération béton (1955). As he continued to work for Cahiers, he made Une femme coquette (1956), a ten-minute black and white picture; Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick (1957) another short fiction piece; and Une histoire d'eau (1958), which was created largely out of footage shot by Truffaut that had gone unused. Une femme coquette ( 1955) was the second of four short fiction films made by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, preceding his work in feature-length narrative All Boys Are Called Patrick (Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick is a 1957 short film written by Éric Rohmer and directed by Jean-Luc Godard and

In 1958 Godard, with a cast that included Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anne Colette, made his last short before gaining notoriety as a filmmaker, Charlotte et son Jules, an homage to Jean Cocteau. Jean-Paul Belmondo (born 9 April 1933 is a French Actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 &ndash 11 October 1963 was a French Poet, Novelist, Dramatist, Designer, Boxing

Cinematic period

The first and most celebrated period roughly spanned from his first feature, Breathless (1960), through to Week End (1967) and focused on narrative and somewhat conventional works that often refer to different aspects of film history. Breathless (French À bout de souffle; literally "out of breath" is a 1960 Film directed by Jean-Luc Godard Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Le weekend ( 1967) is a Black comedy Film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Mireille Darc and Jean Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. This cinematic period stands in contrast to the revolutionary period that immediately followed it, during which Godard ideologically denounced much of cinema’s history as "bourgeois" and therefore without merit.

Films

After seeing Orson Welles' Touch of Evil at the Expo 58, Godard was influenced to make his first major feature film, Breathless (1960), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. George Orson Welles (May 6 1915 – October 10 1985 was an Academy Award -winning director, writer actor and producer for film stage radio and television Touch of Evil ( 1958) is a black-and-white American film written directed and co-starring Orson Welles. Expo 58, also known as the Brussels World’s Fair, Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling or Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles, was held from Breathless (French À bout de souffle; literally "out of breath" is a 1960 Film directed by Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Paul Belmondo (born 9 April 1933 is a French Actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s Jean Dorothy Seberg ( November 13, 1938 – September 8, 1979) was an American actress. The film distinctly expressed the French New Wave's style, and incorporated quotations from several elements of popular culture — specifically American cinema. United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century The film employed various innovative techniques such as jump cuts, real locations rather than studio locations, character asides and mismatched eyeline matches. A jump cut is a cut in Film editing where the middle section of a continuous shot is removed and the beginning and end of the shot are then joined together An aside is a literary device in that an actor speaks to the audience he/she is not heard by the other characters An eyeline match is a popular editing technique associated with the Continuity editing system François Truffaut, who co-wrote Breathless with Godard, suggested its concept and introduced Godard to the producer who ultimately funded it, Georges de Beauregard. Georges de Beauregard ( Marseille, 23 December 1920 – Paris, 10 September 1984) was a notable French film producer

From the beginning of his career, Godard crammed more film references into his movies than any of his New Wave comrades. In “Breathless,” his citations include a movie poster showing Humphrey Bogart (whose expression the lead actor Jean-Paul Belmondo tries reverently to imitate); a clip from the soundtrack of the classic film noir “Gun Crazy”; visual quotations from films of Ingmar Bergman, Samuel Fuller, Fritz Lang, and others; and an onscreen dedication to Monogram Pictures, an American B-movie studio. Most of all, the choice of Jean Seberg as the lead actress was an overarching reference to Otto Preminger, who had discovered her for his “Saint Joan,” and then cast her in his acidulous 1958 adaptation of “Bonjour Tristesse. ” If, in Rohmer’s words, “life was the cinema,” then a film filled with movie references was supremely autobiographical.

The same year, Godard made Le Petit Soldat, which dealt with the Algerian War of Independence. The Algerian War ( French: Guerre d'Algérie; 1954-1962 also known as Algerian War of Independence, led to Algeria 's independence from Most notably, it was the first collaboration between Godard and Danish-born actress Anna Karina, whom he later married in 1961 (and divorced in 1965). Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; September 22, 1940) is a Danish -born French Film Actress. The film, due to its political nature, was banned from French theaters until 1963. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Karina appeared again, along with Belmondo, in A Woman Is a Woman (1961), which was in many ways an homage to the American musical. A Woman Is a Woman (original French title Une Femme est une femme) is a 1961 Film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The musical film is a Film genre in which several Songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative Karina desires a child, prompting her to leave her boyfriend, played by actor Jean-Claude Brialy, and seek out his best friend (Belmondo) as its father. Jean-Claude Brialy (born 30 March 1933 in Aumale, now Sour El-Ghozlane, then French Algeria – died 30 May 2007 in Monthyon, Seine-et-Marne

Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live)
Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live)

Godard's next film, Vivre sa vie (1962), was one of his most popular among critics. Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; September 22, 1940) is a Danish -born French Film Actress. Vivre sa Vie Film en Douze Tableaux ("To Live One's Life A Film in Twelve Scenes" is a 1962 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Vivre sa Vie Film en Douze Tableaux ("To Live One's Life A Film in Twelve Scenes" is a 1962 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Karina starred as Nana, a mother and aspiring actress whose poor circumstances lead her to the life of a streetwalker. It is an episodic account of her trials. The film's style, much like that of Breathless, boasted the type of experimentation that made the French New Wave so influential.

Les Carabiniers (1963) was about the horror of war and its inherent injustice. It was the influence and suggestion of Roberto Rossellini that led Godard to make the film. Roberto Rossellini ( May 8 1906 – June 3 1977) was an Italian Film director. It follows two peasants who join the army of a king, only to find futility in the whole thing as the king reveals the deception of war-administrating leaders.

His most commercially successful film was Contempt (1963), starring Michel Piccoli and one of France's biggest female stars, Brigitte Bardot. Contempt ( Le Mépris) is a film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the Italian novel Il disprezzo ( by Alberto Moravia. Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French Actor who has worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Brigitte Bardot ( (born 28 September 1934 is a French actress, former fashion model, Singer and animal welfare/rights activist A coproduction between Italy and France, Contempt became known as a pinnacle in cinematic modernism with its profound reflexivity. The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had discovered the medium when Pope Leo XIII was filmed Modernism describes an array of Cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century The film follows Paul (Piccoli), a screenwriter who is commissioned by the arrogant American movie producer Prokosch (Jack Palance) to rewrite the script for an adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, which German director Fritz Lang has been filming. Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Palahniuk; February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an Oscar -winning American Homer ( Ancient Greek:, Homēros) is a legendary ancient Greek epic Poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the The Odyssey ( Greek: Ὀδύσσεια or Odússeia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang ( December 5, 1890 &ndash August 2, 1976) was an Austrian German - American Lang's "high culture" interpretation of the story is lost on Prokosch, whose character is a firm indictment of the commercial motion picture hierarchy. High culture is a term now used in a number of different ways in Academic discourse whose most common meaning is the set of cultural products mainly in the Another prominent theme is the inability to reconcile love and labor, which is illustrated by Paul's crumbling marriage to Camille (Bardot) during the course of shooting.

In 1964, Godard and Karina formed a production company, Anouchka Films. He directed Bande à part (Band of Outsiders), another collaboration between the two and described by Godard as "Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka. Bande à Part is Nouvelle Vague 's second album released in 2006 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865 is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known under the Pseudonym Lewis " It follows two young men, looking to score on a heist, who both fall in love with Karina, and quotes from several gangster film conventions. A crime film, in the most general sense is a Film that involves various aspects Crime and the Criminal justice system

Une femme mariée (1964) followed Band of Outsiders. Godard made the film while he acquired funding for Pierrot le fou (1965). Pierrot le fou is a 1965 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo. It was a slow, deliberate, toned-down black and white picture without a real story. The film was entirely produced over the period of one month and exhibited a loose quality unique to Godard.

In 1965, Godard directed Alphaville, a futuristic blend of science fiction, film noir, and satire. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Alphaville is a 1965 Black-and-white French Science fiction film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human Eddie Constantine starred as Lemmy Caution, a detective who is sent into a city controlled by a giant computer named Alpha 60. Eddie Constantine (born Edward Constantinowsky in Los Angeles California, October 29, 1917 &ndash died Wiesbaden Germany, Peter Cheyney ( 22 February 1896 &mdash 26 June 1951) was a British Crime fiction Writer who flourished between 1936 His mission is to make contact with Professor von Braun (Howard Vernon), a famous scientist who has fallen mysteriously silent, and is believed to be suppressed by the computer. Howard Vernon ( 15 July 1914 - 25 July 1996) real name Mario Lippert, was a Swiss Actor.

Pierrot le fou (1965) was one of his most cinematic pictures in terms of its complex storyline, distinctive personalities, and apocalyptic ending. Pierrot le fou is a 1965 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Gilles Jacob, an author, critic, and president of the Cannes Film Festival, called it both a "retrospective" and recapitulation in the way it played on so many of Godard’s earlier characters and themes. The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, With an extensive cast and variety of locations, the film was expensive enough to warrant significant problems with funding. Shot in color, it departed from Godard’s usual black and white minimalist works (typified by Breathless, Vivre sa vie, and Une femme mariée). He solicited the participation of Jean-Paul Belmondo, by then a famous actor, in order to guarantee the necessary amount of capital.

Masculin, féminin (1966), based on two Guy de Maupassant stories, La Femme de Paul and Le Signe, was a study of contemporary French youth and their involvement with cultural politics. Masculin féminin is a low-budget black and white Film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and released in 1966. Guy de Maupassant (gi də mopasɑ̃ (5 August 1850 &ndash 6 July 1893 was a popular 19th-century French Writer and considered one of the fathers of the modern An intertitle refers to the characters as "The children of Marx and Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola is a carbonated Soft drink sold in stores restaurants and Vending machines in more than 200 countries "

Godard followed with Made in U.S.A (1966), whose source material was Richard Stark's The Jugger; and Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967), in which Marina Vlady portrays a woman leading a double life as housewife and prostitute. Made in USA is a 1966 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Donald Edwin Westlake (born July 12, 1933, in Brooklyn New York) is a prolific American Novelist, with over a hundred books Two or Three Things I Know About Her ( 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle) ( 1967) is a French Film directed by Marina Vlady (born Marina de Poliakoff-Baidaroff in Clichy in 10 May 1938) is a French actress.

La Chinoise (1967) saw Godard at his most politically forthright yet. La Chinoise is a 1967 French political film directed by Jean-Luc Godard about young revolutionaries in Paris. The film focused on a group of students and engaged with the ideas coming out of the student activist groups in contemporary France. Released just before the May 1968 events, the film is thought to foreshadow the student rebellions that took place. For other events in May 1968 see 1968.

That same year, Godard made a more colorful and political film, Week End. Le weekend ( 1967) is a Black comedy Film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Mireille Darc and Jean It follows a Parisian couple as they leave on a weekend trip across the French countryside to collect an inheritance. What ensues is a confrontation with the tragic flaws of the over-consuming bourgeoisie. The film contains some of the most written-about scenes in cinema's history. One of them, a ten-minute tracking shot of the couple stuck in an unremitting traffic jam as they leave the city, is often cited as a new technique Godard used to deconstruct bourgeois trends. In Motion picture terminology, a tracking shot (also known as a dolly shot or trucking shot) is a segment in which the camera is mounted on a wheeled platform Week End's enigmatic and audacious end title sequence, which reads "End of Cinema," appropriately marked an end to the narrative and cinematic period in Godard's filmmaking career.

Politics

Politics are never far from the surface in Godard's films. One of his earliest features, Le Petit Soldat, dealt with the Algerian War of Independence, and was notable for its attempt to present the complexity of the dispute rather than pursue any specific ideological agenda. The Algerian War ( French: Guerre d'Algérie; 1954-1962 also known as Algerian War of Independence, led to Algeria 's independence from Along these lines, Les Caribiniers presents a fictional war that is initially romanticized in the way its characters approach their service, but becomes a stiff anti-war metonym. In addition to the international conflicts Godard sought an artistic response to, he was also very concerned with the social problems in France. The earliest and best example of this is Karina's potent portrayal of a prostitute in Vivre sa vie.

In 1960s Paris, the political milieu was not overwhelmed by one specific movement. There was, however, a distinct post-war climate shaped by various international conflicts such as the colonialism in North Africa and Southeast Asia. North Africa or Northern Africa is the Northernmost Region of the African Continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan The side that opposed such colonization included the majority of French workers, who belonged to the French communist party, and the Parisian artists and writers who positioned themselves on the side of social reform and class equality. A large portion of this group had a particular affinity for the teachings of Karl Marx. Godard's Marxist disposition did not become abundantly explicit until La Chinoise and Week End, but is evident in several films — namely Pierrot and Une femme mariée. Jean-Luc Godard (French ʒɑ̃lyk gɔˈdaʀ (born on December 3 1930 is a French and Swiss Filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague

Vietnam

Godard produced several pieces that directly address the Vietnam conflict. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia Furthermore, there are two scenes in Pierrot le fou that tackle the issue. Pierrot le fou is a 1965 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo. The first is a scene that takes place in the initial car ride between Ferdinand (Belmondo) and Marianne (Karina). Over the car radio, the two hear the message "garrison massacred by the Viet Cong who lost 115 men". Marianne responds with an extended musing on the way the radio dehumanizes the Northern Vietnamese combatants.

In the same film, the lovers accost a group of American sailors along the course of their liberating crime spree. The two’s immediate reaction, expressed by Marianne, is "Damn Americans!" an obvious outlet of the frustration so many French communists felt towards American hegemony. The French Communist Party ( French: Parti communiste français or PCF) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of American Empire is a term referring to the political economic military and cultural influence of the United States. Ferdinand then reconsiders, "That’s OK, we’ll change our politics. We can put on a play. Maybe they’ll give us some dollars. " Marianne is puzzled but Ferdinand suggests that something the Americans would like would be the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia The ensuing sequence is a makeshift play where Marianne dresses up as a stereotype Vietnamese woman and Ferdinand as an American sailor. The scene ends on a brief shot revealing a chalk message left on the floor by the pair, "Long live Mao!" (Vive Mao!). Mao Zedong ( 26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) was a Chinese Military and political leader who led

Notably, he also participated in Loin du Vietnam (1967). An anti-war project, it consists of seven sketches directed by Godard (who used stock footage from La Chinoise), Claude Lelouch, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda. Stock footage, and similarly archive footage, library pictures and file footage are Film or Video Claude Lelouch (born 30 October 1937 is a French Film director, writer, Cinematographer, Actor and producer. Joris Ivens ( November 18 1898, Nijmegen &ndash June 28 1989, Paris) was a Dutch Documentary filmmaker and devout William Klein (born in New York New York, USA, on April 19, 1928) is a Photographer and Filmmaker. Chris Marker (born 29 July 1921 is a French Writer, Photographer, Film director, Multimedia artist and documentary maker Alain Resnais (born June 3 1922 in Vannes, France) is a French Film director whose early works are often grouped within the New Wave or Agnès Varda (born 30 May 1928 is a Belgian Film director. Her movies photographs and art installations focus on documentary realism feminist issues and

Israel

Godard operationalizes his extremist, anti-Jewish views by participating in the boycott of the Jewish State. [1]

Bertolt Brecht

Godard's engagement with German playwright Bertolt Brecht stems primarily from his attempt to transpose Brecht's theory of epic theatre and its prospect of alienating the viewer (Verfremdungseffekt) through a radical separation of the elements of the medium (in Brecht's case theater, but in Godard's, film). A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. (born; 10 February 1898&ndash14 August 1956 was a German Poet, Playwright, and Theatre director. The distancing effect (from the German Verfremdungseffekt) or alienation effect, is a theatrical and cinematic device coined by Playwright Brecht's influence is keenly felt through much of Godard's work, particularly before 1980, when Godard used filmic expression for specific political ends. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar)

For example, Breathless' elliptical editing, which denies the viewer a fluid narrative typical of mainstream cinema, forces the viewers to take on more critical roles, connecting the pieces themselves and coming away with more investment in the work's content. Breathless (French À bout de souffle; literally "out of breath" is a 1960 Film directed by Jean-Luc Godard Godard employs this device as well as several others, including asynchronous sound and alarming title frames, with perhaps his favorite being the character aside. In so many of his most political pieces, specifically Week End, Pierrot le fou, and La Chinoise, characters address the audience with thoughts, feelings, and instructions.

Marxism

A Marxist reading is possible with most if not all of Godard’s early work. See also Marxian economics, Marxism Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are terms which cover work in Philosophy Godard’s direct interaction with Marxism does not become explicitly apparent, however, until Week End, where the name Karl Marx is cited in conjunction with figures such as Jesus Christ. Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC / BCE —26–36 AD / CE) A constant refrain throughout Godard's cinematic period is that of the bourgeoisie’s consumerism, the commodification of daily life and activity, and man’s alienation — all central issues of Marx’s condemning analysis of capitalism. Consumerism is the equation of personal Happiness with the purchase of material possessions and consumption. In Sociology and Critical social theory, alienation refers to an individual's estrangement from traditional community and others in general

In an essay on Godard, philosopher and aesthetics scholar Jacques Ranciere states, "When in Pierrot le fou, 1965, a film without a clear political message, Belmondo played on the word 'scandal' and the 'freedom' that the Scandal girdle supposedly offered women, the context of a Marxist critique of commodification, of pop art derision at consumerism and of a feminist denunciation of women’s false 'liberation', was enough to foster a dialectical reading of the joke and the whole story". Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris (St The way Godard treated politics in his cinematic period was in the context of a joke, a piece of art, or a relationship, presented to be used as tools of reference, romanticizing the Marxist rhetoric, rather than solely being tools of education.

Une femme mariée is also structured around Marx's concept of commodity fetishism. In Marxist theory Commodity Fetishism is a state of social relations said to arise in capitalist market based societies in which social relationships Godard once said that it is "a film in which individuals are considered as things, in which chases in a taxi alternate with ethological interviews, in which the spectacle of life is intermingled with its analysis". He was very conscious of the way he wished to portray the human being. His efforts is overtly characteristic of Marx, who in his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 gives one of his most nuanced elaborations, analyzing how the worker is alienated from his product, the object of his productive activity. Georges Sadoul, in his short rumination on the film, describes it as a "sociological study of the alienation of the modern woman". Georges Sadoul (born Nancy 1904 died Paris 1967 was a French journalist and cinema writer

Revolutionary period

The period that spans from May 1968 indistinctly into the 1970s has been subject to an even larger volume of inaccurate labeling. They include everything from his militant period, to his radical period, along with terms as precise as Maoist and vague as political. Maoism, variably and officially known as Mao Zedong Thought ( is a variant of Marxism derived from the teachings of the late Chinese leader The term revolutionary, however, gives a more accurate impression than any other. The period saw Godard align himself with a specific revolution and employ a consistent revolutionary rhetoric.

Films

Amid the upheavals of the late 1960s Godard became interested in Maoist ideology. Maoism, variably and officially known as Mao Zedong Thought ( is a variant of Marxism derived from the teachings of the late Chinese leader He formed the socialist-idealist Dziga-Vertov cinema group with Jean-Pierre Gorin and produced a number of shorts outlining his politics. Jean-Pierre Gorin (born 1943 in Paris) is a French Filmmaker and Professor, best known for his work with Nouvelle Vague In that period he travelled extensively and shot a number of films, most of which remained unfinished or were refused showings. His films became intensely politicized and experimental, a phase that lasted until 1980.

According to Elliott Gould, he and Godard met to discuss the possibility of Godard directing Jules Feiffer's 1971 surrealist play Little Murders. Elliott Gould (born August 29, 1938) is an Academy Award -nominated American actor Jules Ralph Feiffer (born) is an American syndicated comic-strip Cartoonist and Author. Little Murders is a 1971 Black comedy film starring Elliott Gould and Marcia Rodd about a girl (Rodd who brings home her boyfriend During this meeting Godard said his two favorite American writers were Feiffer and Charles M. Schulz. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Jules Ralph Feiffer (born) is an American syndicated comic-strip Cartoonist and Author. Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26 1922 &ndash February 12 2000 was an American Cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts Comic strip Godard soon declined the opportunity to direct; the job later going to Alan Arkin. Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26 1934 is an American Actor and director.

Jean-Pierre Gorin

After the events of May 1968, when the city of Paris saw total upheaval in response to the "authoritarian de Gaulle republic", and Godard's professional objective was reconsidered, he began to collaborate with like-minded individuals in the filmmaking arena. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( ( 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French General and statesman who led the Free French The most notable of these collaborations was with a young Maoist student, Jean-Pierre Gorin, who displayed a passion for cinema that grabbed Godard’s attention. Jean-Pierre Gorin (born 1943 in Paris) is a French Filmmaker and Professor, best known for his work with Nouvelle Vague

Between 1968 and 1973, Godard and Gorin collaborated to make a total of five films with strong Maoist messages. The most prominent film from the collaboration was Tout va bien, which starred Jane Fonda and Yves Montand, at the time very big stars. Tout va bien is a 1972 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand Jane Fonda (born December 21 1937 is an American Academy Award winning Actress, Writer, political activist, former Fashion Yves Montand (iv mɔ̃ˈtɑ̃ in French ( 13 October 1921 &ndash 9 November 1991) was an Italian -born French

Jean-Pierre Gorin now teaches the study of film at the University of California, San Diego and includes many of Godard's works.

The Dziga Vertov group

The small group of Maoists that Godard had brought together, which included Gorin, adopted the name Dziga Vertov Group. The Dziga Vertov Group (Groupe Dziga Vertov was formed in 1968 by politically active filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin. Godard had a specific interest in Vertov, a filmmaker most famous for Man with the Movie Camera (1929) and a contemporary of both the great Soviet montage theorists, as well as the Russian constructivist and avant-garde artists such as Alexander Rodchenko and Vladimir Tatlin. Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов Дзиґа Вертов January 15, 1896 &ndash February 12, 1954) was a Soviet pioneer For the TV-series see Man with a Camera. ---- Man with a Movie Camera, sometimes The Man with the Movie Camera, Film editing is an art of storytelling practiced by connecting two or more shots together to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an Constructivism was an Artistic and architectural movement in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of " Art for art's sake " The Russian avant-garde is an umbrella term used to define the large influential wave of Modern art that flourished in Russia from approximately 1890 to Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Александр Михайлович Родченко – December 3, 1956) was a Russian Artist, sculptor Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin ( Russian: Владимир Евграфович Татлин) ( – May 31, 1953) worked as a painter and architect Part of Godard’s evidently political shift after May 1968 was toward a proactive participation in the class struggle. Vertov’s films were very much centered on class struggle.

Later works

His return to somewhat more traditional fiction was marked with Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980), the first of a series of more mainstream films marked by autobiographical currents: for example Passion (1982), Lettre à Freddy Buache (1982), Prénom Carmen (1984), and Grandeur et décadence (1986). Sauve qui peut (la vie is a film directed co-written and co-produced by Jean-Luc Godard, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1980. Passion is a 1982 film by Jean-Luc Godard, and the second feature film made during his return to relatively mainstream filmmaking in the 1980s sometimes referred First Name Carmen ( Prénom Carmen) is a 1983 film by Jean-Luc Godard. There was, though, another flurry of controversy with Je vous salue, Marie (1985), which was condemned by the Catholic Church for alleged heresy, and also with King Lear (1987), an extraordinary but much-excoriated essay on William Shakespeare and language. Hail Mary ( Je vous salue Marie) is a 1985 French film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. William Shakespeare ( baptised Also completed in 1987 was a Segment in the film ARIA which was based loosely from the plot of Armide set in a gym and uses several arias by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Jean-Philippe Rameau (ʒɑ̃filip ʀaˈmo in French (September 25 1683 – September 12 1764 was one of the most important French Composers and music theorists

His later films have been marked by great formal beauty and frequently a sense of requiem — films such as Nouvelle Vague (New Wave, 1990), the autobiographical JLG/JLG, autoportrait de décembre (JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December, 1995), and For Ever Mozart (1996). For Ever Mozart is a 1996 feature film directed written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard. Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro (Germany Year 90 Nine Zero, 1991) was a quasi-sequel to Alphaville but done with an elegiac tone and focus on the inevitable decay of age. During the 1990s he also produced perhaps the most important work of his career in the multi-part series Histoire(s) du cinéma, which combined all the innovations of his video work with a passionate engagement in the issues of twentieth-century history and the history of film itself. Histoire(s du cinéma is a video project begun by Jean-Luc Godard in the late 1980s and completed in 1998

In 1997, Godard produced Rob Tregenza's third feature, Inside / Out. Rob Tregenza (b 14 November, 1950) is an acclaimed American Cinematographer and Filmmaker renowned for his use of Long takes with This is the only feature Godard has produced but not directed; previously, he produced the Eric Rohmer short La Sonate à Kreutzer in 1956. Éric Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer, 4 April 1920 Tulle, France) is a French Film director and Screenwriter. Godard's work on the film was uncredited.

Quotes

Filmography

For a list of all films directed by Jean-Luc Godard, see Jean-Luc Godard filmography. See also Jean-Luc Godard Directing filmography Early works 1954 Opération béton (Operation Concrete

References

  1. ^ FILMMAKER GODARD SHUNS ISRAEL AFTER BOYCOTT CALL, Reuters, June 2, 2008 [ http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSL0263966820080603]
  2. ^ Steritt, David. 1998. "Interviews" Mississippi: University Press.

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NAME Godard, Jean-Luc
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DATE OF BIRTH 3 December 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris, France
DATE OF DEATH
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