Kino Lorber has bought all North American distribution rights to Jean-Luc Godard’s final short film “Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars.” The 20-minute short played at this year’s ...
On Sept. 12, 2022, the day before Jean-Luc Godard died by assisted suicide at 91 in his home in Rolle, Switzerland, the Godfather of French New Wave completed his final 18-minute film, “Scénarios,” ...
In his final film, Godard looks at war, cinema, and his own imminent death. The film grows out of the formal experimentation that Godard brought to fruition in “The Image Book” (2018); it’s a swirl of ...
Though festivals and distributors were very excited to sell you a “final” film by Jean-Luc Godard, Fabrice Aragno made clear Phony Wars would not be the last transmission. Continuing Tupac-like beyond ...
Mr. Solal, who also wrote music for films and symphony orchestras, was revered in Europe and hailed in the United States on his rare visits there. By David A. Andelman Jean-Luc Godard’s hard-boiled ...
"Breathless" producer Georges de Beauregard's estate is selling the previously unseen partial draft of Godard’s feature debut script. The only known (and previously unseen) handwritten partial ...
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 ...
Jean-Luc Godard was not a fan of conventional scripts. In line with his avant-garde methods, the French director resisted detailed write-ups and meticulous planning, preferring to hastily draft ...