Jean-Luc Godard

...were themselves half-competent imitations of American genre cinema, which meant when "Bonnie and Clyde" tipped its haute couture fedora to Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" and Truffaut's "Shoot the Piano Player," it was indirectly referencing...

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...by Robert Benton and David Newman, who had Truffaut in mind for the film. Too busy, Truffaut recommended Godard instead, who happened to be going to New York. Godard announced he could do it in three weeks' time. The producers were...

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...its primary debt to Gun Crazy. So did A Bout de Souffle (Breathless), the breakthrough film in the French New Wave of the Sixties, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, who dedicated it to the Monogram studio. At one point, Godard and fellow New...

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...and gruesomely dispatched Algerian gangsters. Red and blue filters, musical sequences, eccentric editing, direct addresses to the camera: Godard opens up his box of tricks and tips it all over the screen in a flurry of improvised,...

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...close. And when the flirtation of "Bonnie and Clyde" with New Wave directors brought Mr. Truffaut and his friend Jean-Luc Godard together for a screening of a crime-spree film from the late '40s, Mr. Benton remembers thinking he was as...

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...and Clyde, the director could have been a playfully abstruse Jean-Luc Godard. And the star to whom Godard might have yelled "action" on an icy morning in Jersey? Instead of Warren Beatty, that could have been Elliott Gould! Share this...

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...next. Some sources claim Godard didn't trust Hollywood and refused; other allege he planned to change Bonnie and Clyde to teenagers and relocate the story to Japan, prompting the film's investors to force him off the project. After...

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