The French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard is, in many ways, a study in contrasts. As a young man, he -- and the group of men including Francois Truffaut and Eric Rohmer who came to define the French New Wave -- obsessively consumed American films: gangster movies, big studio extravaganzas, and all the rest. But Godard never intended to imitate his cinematic heroes. Instead, he reinvented the form in his first feature Breathless. The 1959 classic is more than a movie. It is heralded as an artistic achievement on par with great works of painting, writing and sculpture.
Film critic Richard Brody is author of the book, Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard. He stopped by our studios earlier this week and spoke with Worldview contributor Milos Stehlik. Brody tells Milos about the impact Godard had on filmmaking—on both sides of the Atlantic.
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