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 ...

Godard wasn’t right—movies kept going, but I certainly wasn’t the same. Ma fin du cinéma. Overstressed and underslept, I nodded off for a few minutes about three quarters of the way through and awoke ...

Given that a mere six months ago, J. Hoberman wrote in these very pages, “From Breathless (1959) through Weekend (1968), [Jean-Luc] Godard reinvented cinema,” what more is there to say about a ...

Made in 1967, Weekend (Criterion, $30) was Jean-Luc Godard’s last and most anarchic film before his vision succumbed entirely to didacticism. A treacherous young couple who secretly plot each other’s ...

Jean-Luc Godard, the influential French New Wave writer-director who broke new ground in cinematic expression in the 1960s with films such as “Breathless,” “Contempt” and “Weekend” and became a ...