“Contempt” remains as peculiar, sullen and gorgeous a film today as when Jean-Luc Godard had the profoundly conflicted experience of making it 60 years ago. The new 4k digital restoration, courtesy of ...

When the French filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard died last year at the age of 91, the encomiums came in fast and furious. Directors Clair Denis, Edgar Wright, and Martin Scorcese, as well as President Macron ...

Jean-Luc Godard, who cast a modernist shadow so long that many forward-thinking directors still haven’t entirely stepped out of it today, had his biggest commercial success with 1963’s “Le Mépris” ...

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So, we arrive at Contempt, the oft-revived, oft-praised pinnacle of the first portion of Godard’s 60s, some might argue of his entire career. Even when placed amidst his more aesthetically unified ...

That Jean-Luc Godard was at the peak of his powers in 1963-64 is gloriously borne out in these two Criterion titles. While "Contempt" and "Band of Outsiders" are both steeped in the director's ...

“Contempt” is based on Alberto Moravia’s 1954 novel about a man whose wife begins to despise him, but it echoes with allusions, quotations and references to its own making. It opens with Godard’s ...

Michel Piccoli, the prolific French actor known for his leading roles in such films as Jean-Luc Godard's 'Contempt' and Luis Buñuel's 'Belle de jour,' has died. He was 94. By Jordan Mintzer Michel ...

It was exactly 50 years ago that a young French film director named Jean-Luc Godard tore the cinema wide open with his aptly titled debut feature, "Breathless." Godard's rapid-fire gangster flick and ...