Jean Luc Godard

"Jean-Luc Godard." Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed., vol. 19, Gale, 2004, pp. 126-128. Gale eBooks,
Jean-Luc Godard may be one of cinema's greatest names, but his films remain consistently abstruse and unseen by mainstream audiences. This is a situation the French-Swiss screenwriter, director, and occasional performer most likely prefers. Critics have cited the years prior to 1967 as Godard's most masterful period, when he and other young French directors broke new ground in what came to be known as cinema's New Wave movement, hallmarked by fresh conceptualization and technical tricks that challenged viewers' perceptions.

"New Wave." Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, edited by Barry Keith Grant, vol. 3, Schirmer Reference, 2007, pp. 235-245. Gale eBooks
The period from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s was a turbulent one in many parts of the world. Cinema was no exception to the general sense of change in the cultural realm and was an important contributor to it. The period saw a number of "new waves" in cinema in different countries, but the best known—and the one that gave its name to the others, sometimes also referred to as "new cinema" or "young cinema"—was the French nouvelle vague, generally considered to have surfaced in 1958–1959 and to have had decisive effects on French cinema, as well as other national cinemas, at least until the mid-1960s.

"François Truffaut." Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed., vol. 15, Gale, 2004, pp. 311-313. Gale eBooks.
The French film director and critic François Truffaut (1932-1984), together with Jean Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, created the "New Wave" in French motion picture production in the late 1950s. François Truffaut as film maker and esthetician was instrumental in formulating a new cinema language. In its visual spontaneity and narrative discontinuity, the style he helped to originate provided a sharp contrast to the studied academicism of older and established directors.

Includes biography, and filmography as director, writer, and editor.

Jean-Luc Godard, the daringly innovative director and provocateur whose unconventional camera work, disjointed narrative style and penchant for radical politics changed the course of filmmaking in the 1960s, leaving a lasting influence on it, died on Tuesday [Sept. 13, 2022] at his home in Rolle, Switzerland.

As a charter member of the Nouvelle Vague, Jean-Luc Godard was also arguably the most influential French filmmaker of the postwar era. Beginning with his groundbreaking 1959 feature debut A Bout de Souffle, Godard revolutionized the motion picture form, freeing the medium from the shackles of its long-accepted cinematic language by rewriting the rules of narrative, continuity, sound, and camera work. Later in his career, he also challenged the common means of feature production, distribution, and exhibition, all in an effort to subvert the conventions of the Hollywood formula to create a new kind of film.

1 hour 10 minutes. With critics Richard Brody and Blair McClendon.