Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022
When film academic David Bordwell wrote his classic Narration in the Fiction Film he brought together various directors under headings — Montage cinema, Classical Hollywood etc. — but only the Franco-Swiss Jean-Luc Godard had a chapter all to himself. Bordwell, like many others, saw Godard, who died on 13 September, as unique. His career spanned sixty years but he will be best remembered for his early films, which were an important part of the French New Wave and a major influence on filmmakers such as Bernardo Bertolucci in Parma, István Szabó in Hungary, Jiři Menzel in Prague and Quentin...