Jean-Luc Godard filmography
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Jean-Luc Godard is a prolific French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film editor whose career spans over sixty years. He has directed, written, produced and edited many films. The following attempts to be a comprehensive filmography.
Early short films (1955–1958)
| Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Actor | Other | |||
| Opération béton (Operation Concrete) |
1955 | Yes | Yes | Narrator | Editor | |
| Une femme coquette (A Coquettish Woman) |
1955 | Yes | Yes | Editor Cinematographer |
Credited as Hans Lucas | |
| Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick" (Charlotte and Véronique, or: All Boys Are Called Patrick) |
1957 | Yes | ||||
| Une histoire d'eau (A Story of Water) |
1958 | Yes | Editor | Co-directed with François Truffaut | ||
| Charlotte et son Jules (Charlotte and Her Boyfriend) |
1958 | Yes | Yes | Jules (voice) | Editor | Uncredited as actor |
French New Wave (1959–1967)
Feature films
| Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Actor | |||
| À bout de souffle (Breathless) |
1960 | Yes | Yes | The Snitch | Co-conceived with François Truffaut |
| Une femme est une femme (A Woman Is a Woman) |
1961 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Vivre sa vie (My Life to Live) |
1962 | Yes | Yes | Voice of Nana's boyfriend | |
| Le Petit soldat (The Little Soldier) |
1963 | Yes | Yes | Man at Railway Station | Uncredited as actor |
| Les Carabiniers (The Carabineers) |
1963 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Le Mépris (Contempt) |
1963 | Yes | Yes | Lang's Assistant Director | Uncredited as actor |
| Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) |
1964 | Yes | Yes | Narrator | Uncredited as narrator |
| Une femme mariée (A Married Woman) |
1964 | Yes | Yes | Narrator | Uncredited as narrator |
| Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution |
1965 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Pierrot le Fou |
1965 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Masculin Féminin (Masculine Feminine) |
1966 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Made in U.S.A | 1966 | Yes | Yes | Richard Politzer (voice) |
Uncredited as actor |
| 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) |
1967 | Yes | Yes | Narrator | Co-written with Catherine Vimenet |
| La Chinoise | 1967 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Week-end | 1967 | Yes | Yes | ||
Short films
| Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Actor | |||
| La Paresse (Sloth) | 1961 | Yes | Yes | From Les Sept péchés capitaux (The Seven Deadly Sins) | |
| Il Nuovo mondo (The New World) | 1962 | Yes | Yes | From RoGoPaG | |
| Le Grand escroc (The Great Swindler) | 1964 | Yes | Yes | Narrator | From Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers) |
| Reportage sur Orly (Reporting on Orly) | 1964 | Yes | Yes | ||
| "Montparnasse-Levallois" | 1965 | Yes | Yes | From Paris vu par... (Paris as Seen by...) — A.K.A. Six in Paris | |
| Anticipation, ou: l'amour en l'an 2000 (Anticipation: or Love in the Year 2000) |
1967 | Yes | Yes | From Le Plus vieux métier du monde (The World's Oldest Profession) | |
| Caméra-oeil (Camera-Eye) | 1967 | Yes | Yes | From Loin du Vietnam (Far from Vietnam) | |
| L'amore (Andate e ritorno dei figli prodighi) (Love: Departure and Return of the Prodigal Children) |
1967 | Yes | Yes | From Amore e rabbia (Love and Anger) | |
Dziga Vertov Group/political films (1968–1972)
Although Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin were the principal creative forces behind these films, they usually went without on-screen credit. Most of the films from this time period were credited to the Dziga Vertov Group collective.
| Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Actor | Other | |||
| Ciné-tracts | 1968 | Yes | ||||
| Le Rouge: Film-Tract: n° 1968 | 1968 | Yes | Yes | Editor Producer |
Co-directed and written with Gérard Fromanger | |
| Un Film comme les autres (A Film Like Any Other) |
1968 | Yes | Yes | Editor | ||
| One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) | 1968 | Yes | Yes | |||
| One A.M. (One American Movie) | 1968 | Yes | Yes | Cinematographer | Unfinished; incorporated into One P.M.[1] (One Parallel Movie/One Pennebaker Movie) by D. A. Pennebaker in 1971. | |
| Le Gai savoir (Joy of Learning) | 1969 | Yes | Yes | Narrator | Editor | Inspired by Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| British Sounds (See You at Mao) | 1969 | Yes | Yes | Co-directed and written with Jean-Henri Roger | ||
| Pravda | 1969 | Yes | Yes | Editor | Documentary; uncredited | |
| Le Vent d'est (Wind from the East) | 1969 | Yes | Yes | Editor | Co-written and directed with Jean-Pierre Gorin | |
| Luttes en Italie (Struggles in Italy) | 1969 | Yes | Yes | Editor | Co-written and directed with Jean-Pierre Gorin | |
| Jusqu'à la victoire (Until Victory) | 1970 | Yes | Yes | Unfinished; incorporated into Ici et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere) by Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville in 1974 | ||
| Vladimir et Rosa (Vladimir and Rosa) | 1971 | Yes | Yes | Vladimir Lenin | Editor Cinematographer |
Co-written and directed with Jean-Pierre Gorin |
| Schick after Shave | 1971 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Tout Va Bien (Everything's Going Fine) | 1972 | Yes | Yes | Co-written and directed with Jean-Pierre Gorin | ||
| Letter to Jane | 1972 | Yes | Yes | Co-written and directed with Jean-Pierre Gorin | ||
Transitional period (SonImage) (1974–1978)
| Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Actor | Other | |||
| Numéro deux (Number Two) | 1975 | Yes | Yes | Himself | Co-written Anne-Marie Miéville | |
| Ici et ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere) | 1976 | Yes | Yes | Narrator | Co-director and co-writer | |
| Comment ça va (How's it going) |
1976 | Yes | Yes | Co-written and directed with Anne-Marie Miéville | ||
| Six fois deux, sur et sous la communication (Six Times Two: Over and Under Communication) |
1976 | Yes | Yes | Himself | Editor Producer |
Co-written and directed with Anne-Marie Miéville |
| Faut pas rêver (Dream On) | 1977 | Yes | Yes | Editor Producer Cinematographer |
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| France/tour/détour/deux enfants (France/Tour/Detour/Two Children) |
1978 | Yes | Yes | Robert Linard | Editor Producer |
Uncredited as editor |
Second Wave (1979–1988)
Feature films
| Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Actor | Other | |||
| Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Every Man for Himself in North America and Slow Motion in the UK) |
1980 | Yes | Yes | Editor Producer |
Co-written with two others | |
| Passion | 1982 | Yes | Yes | Editor | Co-written with Jean-Claude Carrière | |
| Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen) | 1983 | Yes | Uncle Jeannot | Uncredited as actor | ||
| Je vous salue, Marie (Hail Mary) | 1985 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Détective | 1985 | Yes | Yes | Co-written with two others | ||
| King Lear | 1987 | Yes | Yes | Professor Pluggy | Executive producer Editor |
Uncredited as writer, actor, editor, and executive producer |
| Soigne ta droite (Keep Your Right Up) | 1987 | Yes | Yes | The Idiot/Prince | Editor | |
Short films/videos
| Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Actor | Other | |||
| Quelques remarques sur la réalisation et la production du film 'Sauve qui peut (la vie)' (A Few Remarks on the Direction and Production of the Film Sauve qui peut (la vie)) |
1979 | Yes | Yes | Narrator | ||
| Une bonne à tout faire (Good to Go) | 1981 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Lettre à Freddy Buache (Letter to Freddy Buache) | 1982 | Yes | Yes | Himself | ||
| Changer d'image (To Alter the Image) | 1982 | Yes | Yes | The Idiot | Editor | From Le Changement a plus d'un titre (Change Has More Than One Title) |
| Passion, le travail et l'amour: introduction à un scénario ,ou Troisième état du scénario du film Passion |
1982 | Yes | ||||
| Scénario du film Passion | 1982 | Yes | Narrator Himself |
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| Petites notes à propos du film Je vous salue, Marie (Small Notes Regarding the Film Je vous salue, Marie) |
1983 | Yes | Himself | |||
| Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma (The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company) |
1986 | Yes | Yes | Himself | Uncredited as actor and writer; made for the French TV series Série noire | |
| Soft and Hard | 1986 | Yes | Yes | Himself | Editor | Co-written and directed with Anne-Marie Miéville |
| Meetin' WA | 1986 | Yes | Himself | Editor | ||
| Armide | 1987 | Yes | From Aria | |||
| Closed Jeans: Marithé François Girbaud, série 1, 1-10 (Closed Jeans: Marithé François Girbaud: Series 1: 1-10) |
1988 | Yes | Yes | Editor | ||
| Closed: Marithé et François Girbaud, série 2, 1-7 (Closed: Marithé and François Girbaud: Series 2: 1-7) |
1988 | Yes | Yes | Editor | ||
| Puissance de la parole (The Power of Speech) | 1988 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Le Dernier mot/Les Français entendus par... (The Last Word/The French as Understood by...) |
1988 | Yes | Yes | From Les Français vus par... (The French as Seen by...) | ||
1989–present
Feature and medium length films
| Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Actor | Other | |||
| Nouvelle Vague | 1990 | Yes | Yes | Editor | Uncredited as editor | |
| Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro (Germany Year 90 Nine Zero) | 1991 | Yes | Editor | Uncredited as editor | ||
| Hélas pour moi (Oh Woe Is Me) | 1993 | Yes | ||||
| JLG/JLG, autoportrait de décembre (JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December) |
1994 | Yes | Yes | Himself | Editor | |
| For Ever Mozart | 1996 | Yes | Yes | Editor | ||
| Eloge de l'amour (In Praise of Love) | 2001 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Notre musique | 2004 | Yes | Yes | Himself | ||
| Film Socialisme | 2010 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Adieu au Langage (Goodbye to Language)[1] | 2014 | Yes | Yes | Uncredited as actor | ||
| Le Livre d'image (The Image Book)[2] | 2018 | Yes | Yes | |||
Short films, video work
| Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Actor | Other | |||
| Le Rapport Darty (The Darty Report / The Darty Connection) |
1989 | Yes | Nathanael, the 2000 year-old robot |
Co-directed with Anne-Marie Miéville | ||
| Marithé François Girbaud: Métamorphojean | 1990 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Pour Thomas Wainggai | 1991 | Yes | From Contre l'oubli | |||
| L'enfance de l'art | 1991 | Yes | Yes | Editor | Co-written and directed with Anne-Marie Miéville | |
| Parisienne People Cigarettes | 1992 | Yes | Yes | Editor | ||
| Les Enfants jouent à la Russie (The Kids Play Russian) |
1993 | Yes | Yes | Prince Mishkin | Editor | |
| Je vous salue Sarajevo (I Salute Thee Sarajevo / Hail Sarajevo) |
1993 | Yes | Yes | Narrator | Editor | |
| 2 x 50 ans de cinéma français (2 x 50 French Cinema Years) |
1995 | Yes | Himself | Editor | Co-directed with Anne-Marie Miéville | |
| Plus Oh! | 1996 | Yes | Editor | |||
| Espoir/Microcosmos | 1996 | Yes | Yes | Editor | ||
| Adieu au TNS | 1998 | Yes | Yes | Himself | ||
| Histoire(s) du cinéma ((History(s) of the Cinema) — 1988-1998 |
1998 | Yes | Yes | Himself | Editor | |
| The Old Place | 1999 | Yes | Yes | Narrator | Editor | Co-written and directed with Anne-Marie Miéville |
| 'De l'origine du XXIe siècle (Origins of the 21st Century) |
2000 | Yes | Editor | |||
| Dans le noir du temps | 2002 | Yes | From Ten Minutes Older: The Cello | |||
| Liberté et patrie (Freedom and Fatherland) | 2002 | Yes | Yes | Editor | Co-written and directed with Anne-Marie Miéville | |
| Moments Choisis | 2004 | Yes | Yes | Editor | Collage taken by Godard from Histoire(s) du Cinema | |
| Ecce Homo | 2006 | Yes | Yes | Editor Producer |
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| Vrai faux passeport (True False Passport) | 2006 | Yes | Yes | Narrator | Editor Producer |
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| Reportage amateur Maquette expo | 2006 | Yes | Yes | Co-written and directed with Anne-Marie Miéville | ||
| Prière pour refusniks (1) (Prayer for Refuseniks (1)) | 2006 | Yes | Yes | Editor | ||
| Prière pour refusniks (2) (Prayer for Refuseniks (2)) |
2006 | Yes | Yes | Editor | ||
| Prière pour refusniks (2) (Prayer for Refuseniks (2)) |
2008 | Yes | Yes | Editor | ||
| Une catastrophe (A Catastrophe) | 2008 | Yes | Yes | Editor | Trailer for Viennale | |
| Tribute to Eric Rohmer | 2010 | Yes | Yes | Himself | Editor | Uncredited as editor and actor |
| Les trois désastres | 2013 | Yes | Yes | From 3X3D, omnibus film with Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pera | ||
| The Bridge of Sighs | 2014 | Yes | Yes | From omnibus film Les Ponts de Sarajevo | ||
| Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux | 2014 | Yes | Narrator | |||
| Prix suisse, remerciements, mort ou vif | 2015 | Yes | Himself | |||
| 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF | 2018 | Yes | Himself | Promotional short for the 22nd Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival | ||
Other filmography
| Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Actor | |||
| Le Château de verre (The Glass Castle) |
1950 | Un passant | Uncredited | ||
| Le coup du berger (Fool's Mate) |
1956 | Un invité à la fête | Uncredited | ||
| La Sonate à Kreutzer | 1956 | Ami journaliste | |||
| Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak (Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak) |
1960 | Walter | Short | ||
| Paris Belongs to Us | 1961 | Un homme à la terrasse | Credited as Hans Lucas | ||
| Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald ou (Méfiez-vous des lunettes noires) |
1961 | L'homme aux lunettes noires | Short | ||
| Cléo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Actor in silent film | Uncredited | ||
| Le Signe du Lion | 1962 | Le mélomane | Uncredited | ||
| Sun in Your Eyes | 1962 | Unknown | |||
| Shéhérazade | 1963 | Unknown | |||
| The Defector | 1966 | Orlovsky's Friend | Uncredited | ||
| Ciné-girl | 1969 | Lui-même | Uncredited | ||
| Ne | 1975 | Unknown | |||
| Der kleine Godard an das Kuratorium junger deutscher Film |
1978 | The Guest | |||
| We're Still Here | 1997 | L'homme comédien | |||
| After the Reconciliation | 2000 | Robert | |||
Other works
| Title | Year | Notes | Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Studio d’Orphée | 2019 | Art Installation at the Fondazione Prada in Milan | [3] | ||
References
- ^ "Cannes 2014: Jean-Luc Godard heads line-up of big names". ndtv.com. April 18, 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- ^ "The 2018 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
- ^ Woodward, Daisy (4 December 2019). "Why New Wave Auteur Jean-Luc Godard Has Recreated His Studio in Milan". AnOther Publishing Ltd. Retrieved 7 December 2019.