Godard

American  

[goh-dahrd, -dahr, gaw-dar] / goʊˈdɑrd, -ˈdɑr, gɔˈdar /

noun

1. Benjamin Louis Paul 1849–95, French violinist and composer.

2. Jean-Luc 1930–2022, French filmmaker.

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Godard British  

/ ɡɔdar /

noun

1. Jean-Luc (ʒɑ̃lyk). born 1930, French film director and writer associated with the New Wave of the 1960s. His works include À bout de souffle (1960), Weekend (1967), Sauve qui peut (1980), Nouvelle Vague (1990), and Éloge de l'amour (2003)

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Example Sentences

Putting the experience of making “Faces of Death” in perspective, Goldhaber references Jean-Luc Godard’s famous dictum that every film is a documentary of its own making.

From Los Angeles Times

The Prisoner could be straight out of a Godard film.

From Los Angeles Times

He adds: “In fact, it already produced the Nouvelle Vague of people like François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Cinematic montage — pioneered by Sergei Eisenstein and reinvented by Jean-Luc Godard — becomes an organizing principle of the exhibit, as artworks compete for attention.

From Los Angeles Times

Her best performance likely came in Jean-Luc Godard’s acclaimed 1963 melancholy adaptation “Contempt,” as a wife who falls out of love with her husband.

From Los Angeles Times