French New Wave Giant Jean Luc Godard Dies At 91 Jean Luc Godard
Best known for his iconoclastic, seemingly improvised shooting style as well as rigid radicalism, Godard made his mark with a series of increasingly politicized films in the 1960s, before enjoying an unlikely career revival in recent years, with films like Film Socialisme and Goodbye to Language as he experimented with digital technology. French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted: “We have lost a national treasure, the eye of a genius.” He said Godard was a “maestro” of cinema – “the most iconoclastic of the Nouvelle Vague”....