Few filmmakers have had so profound an effect on the development of the art as Jean-Luc Godard, almost certainly the most important filmmaker worldwide to emerge since the end of WWII. From his early days as a critic and thinker in the pages of Cahiers du cinema and elsewhere, through the great age of the New Wave in the 1960s, continuing (with a lesser impact) in the 70s and 80s, Godard has redefined the way we look at film. An essayist and poet of the cinema, he makes the language of film a real part of his narratives.With a prodigious sense of exploration, Godard has worked his way through
