Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Godard wasn’t right—movies kept going, but I certainly wasn’t the same. Ma fin du cinéma. Overstressed and underslept, I nodded off for a few minutes about three quarters of the way through and awoke ...

The weekend’s here, and with it comes one of the Bill Cosford Cinema‘s first 35mm screenings since becoming a finalist for the Knight Arts Challenge. As expected, the Cosford Classics series is ...

Given that a mere six months ago, J. Hoberman wrote in these very pages, “From Breathless (1959) through Weekend (1968), [Jean-Luc] Godard reinvented cinema,” what more is there to say about a ...

French Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard in 2014. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Images) Jean-Luc Godard, the influential French New Wave writer-director who broke new ground in cinematic ...

Jean-Luc Godard, 1980. (Photo by Gilbert Uzani / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) “Godard didn’t make cinema. Godard was cinema.” So said some French dignitary (was it Macron or his tweeters?) when the ...

This weekend's pop culture catch-up reading features a retrospective on Godard's masterpiece "Contempt," the rise of Trojan Horse Television, and more.

Jean-Luc Godard in 2010. (Photo: The Image Gate via Getty Images) Jean-Luc Godard, one of the world’s most revered film directors, known for his radical techniques and open-ended narrative structures, ...

The greatest filmmaker in the world has died. And that’s a title Jean-Luc Godard has held for a very long time. His influence on cinematic form and language of the past 60 years has been foundational, ...