Jean-Luc Godard – Stream On Demand

‘Breathless’ – Jean-Luc Godard’s new wave classic on HBO Max, Criterion Channel, and Kanopy

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Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a charming rogue of a street thug in this cinematic blast across the bow of the French filmmaking and international cinema.

Agnes Varda’s ‘Cléo from 5 to 7’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

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Varda’s breakthrough film follows a flighty young pop singer through Paris for a day as she awaits potentially tragic news.

‘Two in the Wave’ – Godard/Truffaut free on Kanopy

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Emmanuel Laurent’s unconventional documentary is centered on the friendship between Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, which in many ways became the foundation of the Nouvelle Vague.

Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Alphaville’ – crimes of the future free on Kanopy

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Eddie Constantine is Lemmy Caution in this mix of science fiction drama and pulp fiction private eye thriller.

Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Contempt’ with Brigitte Bardot on Criterion Channel

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Brigitte Bardot stars in Godard’s one and only flirtation with big budget studio production with Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and filmmaking great Fritz Lang.

Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Vivre sa vie’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

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Anna Karina stars in this drama of social and sexual politics about a shop girl and aspiring actress who becomes a professional prostitute.

Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Band of Outsiders’ on Criterion Channel

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Anna Karina stars with Sammi Frey and Claude Brasseur in this cinematically playful lark that takes a turn into outlaw crime drama.

Last chance: ‘A Woman is a Woman’ – Jean-Luc Godard’s musical on Criterion Channel

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Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy , and Jean-Paul Belmondo star in this bubbly, colorful, romantic lark.

‘Pierrot le fou’ – Belmondo and Karina crime spree on Criterion Channel

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Jean-Luc Godard directs this mix of road movie, a crime fantasy, a cultural satire, and modern film noir in Technicolor and CinemaScope.

‘Breathless’ – American style with Richard Gere

!Featured, Blu-ray, Crime, DVD, remake, SVOD 02/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

I’m still not sure if it was an inspired or a terribly misguided idea to remake Jean-Luc Godard’s debut feature, a French nouvelle vague classic of outlaw cinema in every sense of the word. Godard made his splash by defying conventions and announcing a fresh, energetic, new approach to telling stories on screen and a […]