GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Filmmaking Legend Jean-Luc Godard

“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.” — Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard upended cinematic conventions and expectations with his la Nouvelle Vague debut and international hit, BREATHLESS, and continued to astound, confront, and reinvent cinema, and sometimes confound audiences for the next 60 years. Though in the company of many great auteur talents of the period, Godard stood out in his strident social and aesthetic development, working in narrative, documentary and television formats simultaneously, while remaking each in the mold of his own, highly personal vision. He leaves us with an incredible body of work to revisit and much for many of us to encounter for the first time.

Gartenberg Media includes Godard’s amazing 1965 French New Wave science fiction neo-noir classic ALPHAVILLE in it’s distribution catalog, available on Blu-Ray and DVD and as a downloadable DSL file.