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 ...

The current Jean-Luc Godard retrospective in New York, admirably entitled The Spirit of Forms, reintroduces the French auteur’s films into familiar territory: namely, the New York Film Festival (NYFF) ...

Richard Linklater is back for his second movie this year, with “Nouvelle Vague” now on Netflix. The film, shot in black-and-white with French dialogue, details the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s ...

Jean-Luc Godard’s hard-boiled sci-fi movie from 1965 returns in a restored version at IFC Center. By J. Hoberman This documentary looks at the work of Jean-Luc Godard, who sought with each new work to ...

Exclusive: The landmark love triangle starring Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Jean-Claude Brialy comes to Film Forum beginning February 7. French New Wave fans, rejoice. One of Jean-Luc Godard’s ...

In “Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s ingenious and enchanting docudrama about the making of “Breathless,” the 29-year-old Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck) never takes off his sunglasses. He ...

From the first supernal image of rain on a green field, Jean-Luc Godard’s Hail Mary (Je vous salue, Marie) approaches the mystical with a sense of radical awe. The first inter-title — “At That Time,” ...

Staff Writer Nouvelle Vague, out Nov. 14 on Netflix, is a movie about the making of a movie, as director Richard Linklater imagines how Jean-Luc Godard made his breakout 1960 film Breathless. Part ...

How do we feel about movies about movies these days? Not great after Mank a few years ago – our cup runneth over with self-indulgence out of Hollywood – but Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague (now on ...

“Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s dramatization of the making, in 1959, of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless,” is a nitpicker’s delight: any viewer who knows anything about Godard’s story can find ...

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 ...