Cannes Film Festival to pay tribute to iconic director Jean-Luc-Godard

Cannes Film Festival to pay tribute to iconic director Jean-Luc-Godard

Jean-Luc Godard | Photo Credit: AFP The Cannes Film Festival will pay tribute to the iconic French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc-Godard with three screenings. The pioneer of French New Wave, Godard passed away at 91 years on September 13, 2022. Godard’s 20-minute trailer of Phoney Wars, a film that never got made, will be premiered at the […]

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Jean-Luc Godard, the filmmaker who changed cinema’s grammar and syntax

Jean-Luc Godard, the filmmaker who changed cinema’s grammar and syntax

Jean-Luc Godard was an iconoclast. He “destroyed” cinema and created it, every time he made a new film. He was not bound by any rules or conventions hitherto religiously practised by generations of filmmakers before him. Scion of an upper-class Swiss family, he discovered to his shame and horror that his paternal grandfather was a […]

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Kerala’s enduring fascination for legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard

Kerala’s enduring fascination for legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard

International Film Festival of Kerala conferred on the director Lifetime Achievement award in 2021 International Film Festival of Kerala conferred on the director Lifetime Achievement award in 2021 Film buffs in Kerala will have their own personal favourites to pick from the extensive oeuvre of legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard who passed away on Tuesday […]

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Iconic French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard dead at 91

Iconic French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard dead at 91

French media say director Jean-Luc Godard, an icon of French New Wave film who revolutionized popular 1960s cinema, has died French media say director Jean-Luc Godard, an icon of French New Wave film who revolutionized popular 1960s cinema, has died Jean-Luc Godard, the ingenious “enfant terrible” of the French New Wave who revolutionized popular cinema […]

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‘Adieu Godard’ not typical art film, it’s very entertaining: director Amartya

‘Adieu Godard’ not typical art film, it’s very entertaining: director Amartya

Shot entirely in Odisha, ‘Adieu Godard’ follows the story of an old man named Ananda who is addicted to pornography and secretly watches adult films with some men in the evening Shot entirely in Odisha, ‘Adieu Godard’ follows the story of an old man named Ananda who is addicted to pornography and secretly watches adult […]

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