In the 1960s, pioneering French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard introduced the world to a new cinematic lexicon, generated from his innovative, auteurist style. Between 1960 and 1967 alone, he made fifteen features (beginning with his groundbreaking début, Breathless)—and it’s this period that regular Criterion Collection contributor Kogonada explores in a new video essay highlighting the iconic director’s signature themes and devices.
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Directed by John Ford
A Decade Under the Influence
John Candy: I Like Me
Heart of a Dog
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
A Plastic Ocean
Seduced and Abandoned
McQueen
Naqoyqatsi
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
My Mom Jayne
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
Milius
I Am Heath Ledger
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In the Realms of the Unreal
Being James Bond
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
Room 666