Richard Brody

Jean-Luc Godard is one of the most influential filmmakers of the last fifty years. Scorsese, Tarantino, Wong Kar-Wai, and Lars von Trier are but a few of the directors who have fallen under the spell of his freewheeling style. In his 1960s heyday, Godard — always in dark shades, cigarette in hand — epitomised European cool. But he subsequently grew...