Jean-Luc Godard

Biography

Jean-Luc Godard (December 3, 1930 – September 13, 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement and was arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era.

Filmography

Contempt
Lang's Assistant Director
Breathless
The Snitch
Belmondo, le magnifique
Self (archive footage)
Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte
Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2b: Deadly Beauty
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
Here and Elsewhere
Narrator (voice)
Notre Musique
Self
First Name: Carmen
Uncle Jeannot (uncredited)
What's Wrong With The World
(voice)
Far from Vietnam
Self (segment "Camera Eye")
Meetin' WA
Self
Routine Pleasures
Himself (Archive photos)
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Self (archive footage)
Godard Is Here
Self
Two in the Wave
Self (archive footage)
A Story of Water
Narrator
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
Keep Your Right Up
Idiot / Prince
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
Self
King Lear
Professor Pluggy
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3b: A New Wave
See You Friday, Robinson
Himself
Godard by Godard
Self (archive footage)
Le Gai Savoir
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Self
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4a: The Control of the Universe
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 4b: The Signs Among Us
Alianças Profanas
Fiancés on the Bridge
Man with the Black Glasses
Band of Outsiders
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Marguerite as She Was
Say God Bye
Self (JLG)
The Glass Castle
Un voyageur qui sort de la Gare de l'Est (uncredited)
Carl Th. Dreyer und Gertrud
Vladimir and Rosa
Vladimir Lenin (uncredited)
A Letter to Freddy Buache
Self (uncredited)
Operation Concrete
Narrator (voice)
After the Reconciliation
Robert
Willing
Self (uncredited)
The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin
Self
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
Self
Scheherazade
Handwalker
Numéro deux
Self (uncredited)
How's It Going?
Union Member (voice)
Tribute to Eric Rohmer
Iter
Self
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Self (archive footage)
Spot of the 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF
Himself
Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard: The Meeting in St-Gervais
Self
Festivals 66 Cinéma 67
Self
Soft and Hard
Self
Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 1
Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 10
Leçons de cinéma de Godard à Montréal, classe 11
The Dinosaur and the Baby
Self
France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
Robert Linard
Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication
Self
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Self
Voices
Self
Little Godard
Guest
The Children Play Russian
The idiot: Prince Mishkin
Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux
Himself
Cinématon
N°106
Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française
Self
The Kreutzer Sonata
Ami Journaliste
Paris Belongs to Us
Hans Lucas
September September
(archive footage)
The Darty Report
Nathanael, the 2000 year-old robot
Vrai faux passeport
Le Petit Soldat
Man at Railway Station (uncredited)
Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
Walter
Godard Cinema
Self
Adieu au TNS
Self
Anna and the Jellyfish
Self (archive footage)
Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
Self (archive footage)
I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
Godard Etkisi
Archive Footage (Himself)
Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars
Self/Narrator
Memória Cubana
Self (archive footage)
The 400 Blows
(voice)(uncredited)
Wind from the East
Self (uncredited)
Message of Greetings: Prix suisse / My Thanks / Dead or Alive
Himself
Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings
Himself
The Staircase Wall
Self (voice, archive footage)
A German Youth
(archive material)
Noises From The Agora
Himself
Godard: History: Passion
Self
G(ode)ard
JLG
Godard on TV: 1960-2000
Self (archive footage)
Back to Room 666
Self (archive footage)
Only Godard
Self
We're All Still Here
The Actor
The Three Disasters
Narrator
Lila
Faces Places
Self
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Man in Fez / Narrator (segment "Le Grand escroc") (uncredited)
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
Self
MORTEM IMAGINIS.
Godard
Godard in America
Himself
Scénarios
Self
Scénario du film Passion
Narrator / Self
The Married Woman
The Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Françoise et Udo...
Two American Audiences: La Chinoise - A Film in the Making
Himself
Reporters
Self
Paparazzi
Self
Hail, Sarajevo
Narrator
One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
Himself
Vivre Sa Vie
The Lover Reading Poe (voice) (uncredited)
Room 666
Self
The Quadrille
Self
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
Jules (voice) (uncredited)
Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965
Self
Zoom: Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
Self
La rouge et la noire
Self (archive footage) (voice) (uncredited)
Lovers
Self (archive footage)
JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
Self
Jean-Luc Godard, Disorder Exposed
Self (archive footage)
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
Himself
Goodbye to Language
Narrator (voice)
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Self (uncredited)
ORG
Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Self
Once Upon a Time… Contempt
Self
Né
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Image Book
Narrator (voice)
Petit Jour
Self
Cléo from 5 to 7
The Man with Black Glasses / Actor in Silent Film
Filmmakers in Action
Self (archive footage)
Film catastrophe
himself
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Self (archive footage)
Mai en décembre: Godard en Abitibi
Himself (voice)
Bardot et Godard
Self
Godard / Sollers : L’entretien
Qu’est-ce que la mise en scène - Jean-Luc Godard
Civilisation: L'homme et les images
Mireille Darc, la femme libre
Self (archive footage)
1 P.M.
Self
Duras/Godard
Jean-Luc Godard interview by Serge Daney
Self
Conversation entre Jean-Luc Godard et Jacques Rivette
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
JLG\PG
Himself
Four Short Films
Narrator
Anna Karina, Remember
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brunes et Blondes
Self
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Lovely Month of May
Self (uncredited)
Godard Made in USA
Self (archive footage)
Accomplice
Himself (archive footage)
Made in U.S.A
Richard Politzer (voice) (uncredited)
Sun in Your Eyes
The Defector
Orlovsky's Friend (uncredited)
Godard 1980
As Himself
Cinématon XI
N°106
On the Trail of the New Wave
Self (archive footage)
Conversation with JLG
Self
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Narrator (voice)
Printtemps
Self (archival footage)
Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
Self
Petites notes à propos du film 'Je vous salue, Marie'
Self
Sign of the Lion
Le Mélomane (uncredited)
A Flirtatious Woman
The Man Who Looks at the Balcony (uncredited)
Ensemble et séparés : sept rendez-vous avec Jean-Luc Godard
Lui-même
Cinématon n°106 : Jean-Luc Godard
Fool’s Mate
Party guest (uncredited)
Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville on Google StreetView
Self
Brève rencontre avec Jean-Luc Godard ou le cinéma comme métaphore
Himself
The Sparks Brothers
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Carl Th. Dreyer
Self (uncredited)
Cinema According to Jean-Luc
Blind Love – Talk with Jean-Luc Godard
Self
Death
Himself (voice)
Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario"
Amateur Report (Exhibition Model)
Moving Pictures
Self
The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One'
Self
For Ever Mozart
Man pretending to play soccer (uncredited)
To Alter the Image
The Idiot (uncredited)
Ecce Homo
(voice)
Passion, le travail et l'amour: Introduction à un scénario
Self
Full Metal Kuleshov Effect
Himself
The Story of "Scénario"
Self
From Darkness to Light
Self (archive footage)
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
himself
A Weekend at the Beach
Himself
Mag Bodard, un destin