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Wes Anderson has an obsessive, systematic repetition of stylistic choices. He’s perfect for this TikTok meme

Iconoclastic film director Wes Anderson says of his films:

The Conversation

The full credit list featured at the beginning of Tár is a nod to the hidden hierarchies of labour in screen production

In a recent interview on her portrayal of a renowned (fictional) female conductor, the autocratic maestro Lydia Tár, Cate Blanchett noted ways in which orchestral music-making is not a democratic enterprise. Neither is film-making.

The Conversation

‘I’m a film-maker because of him’: Herzog, Swinton, Rushdie and more on Tom Luddy, cinema’s quiet titan

Friends and film-makers including Errol Morris, Laurie Anderson and Adam Curtis on the brilliance of Telluride’s Tom Luddy, who has died aged 79

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Telluride Film Festival co-founder Tom Luddy dies at 79

Tom Luddy, who co-founded the Telluride Film Festival as part of a long and varied career in the film industry, has died at age 79.

Los Angeles Times

Jean-Luc Godard remembered by Caroline Champetier

The cinematographer recalls working with the radical French director, a man who transformed cinema and survived on omelettes and beer

The Guardian - UK

‘The fear of a bad death’: France to begin citizens' debate on end-of-life care

A French citizens' council of 150 members of the public will meet Friday to begin discussions on end-of-life care, including whether assisted suicide should be legalised. As French laws have evolved over the last two decades, calls have increased to allow medically assisted deaths for terminally ill patients.

France 24

What links The White Lotus to Tom Wolfe and the Sicilian good life?

The second series of the scathing social satire ignites a chain of terrible rich people swanning about in Italy

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New York Film Festival fetes 60 years with eye to the future

Like a pair of moviegoers huddled in debate outside a movie theater, the past and future of film converge in conversation at the New York Film Festival, which on Friday launches its 60th edition with the premiere of Noah Baumbach’s Don DeLillo adaptation, “White Noise.”

The Independent UK

Letter: Jean-Luc Godard obituary

Clyde Jeavons writes: director was once ejected from the National Film Theatre for attacking a producer

The Guardian - UK

Nicholas Goldberg: Should our aid-in-dying laws be expanded, or are we moving too far too fast?

To take advantage of California's narrowly drawn assisted suicide law one must be terminally ill, with only six months to live, as certified by not one but two doctors.

Los Angeles Times

Jean-Luc Godard: Master of French cinema who pushed boundaries

At his best, the Franco-Swiss film director and Young Turk of the New Wave was responsible for some of the most sublime moments of 1960s screen time

The Independent UK

My Jean-Luc Godard movie marathon: How I watched his collected works, in chronological order

I am one of the Godard-obsessed.

Los Angeles Times

Jean-Luc Godard: how his prickly fragmented filmmaking asked all the right questions

Jean-Luc Godard, who has died at the age of 91, was the last survivor of the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague), the immensely influential movement of rebellious young filmmakers and critics who ensured that French cinema was the focus of film goers’ attention at the start of the 1960s.

The Conversation

Jean-Luc Godard’s films teach us to demand more from the lives we’re given

The work of the French-Swiss director, who died this week, is playful – but deadly serious about what life is for, says author Lynsey Hanley

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Thursday briefing: What’s behind Sweden’s lurch to the right

In today’s newsletter: A country that once favoured open borders and internationalism has embraced anti-immigration rhetoric – and now a political party with extremist roots has come to power

Asharq Al-Awsat

French Cinema Giant Jean-Luc Godard Dies Aged 91

Jean-Luc Godard, one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century and the father of the French New Wave, died "peacefully at home" on Tuesday aged 91, his family said. His legal counsel later confirmed he died by assisted suicide.

France 24

Final cut: Looking back at Jean-Luc Godard's cinematic genius

The kinetic, experimental style of films like "Breathless" and "Pierrot le Fou" saw Jean-Luc Godard crowned among the leading lights of the French New Wave. Following the Franco-Swiss filmmaker's death at 91, Lisa Nesselson tells us how Godard's formal innovations revolutionised European cinema, bringing Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Anna Karina…

Los Angeles Times

Appreciation: Jean-Luc Godard, a master of cinema who changed the medium forever

Of all the endlessly quotable maxims and aphorisms that have poured from the mouth and the movies of Jean-Luc Godard — "All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun," "The cinema is truth at 24 frames per second," "A story should have a beginning, a…

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‘Godard shattered cinema’: Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis and more pay tribute

He was the explosively talented film-maker who changed cinema for all time. But what did other directing giants make of this movie legend – and did they find his latter films unwatchable?

Evening Standard

Cinema pioneer Jean-Luc Godard died of assisted suicide, says lawyer

Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland if offered without ‘selfish motive’

The Conversation

Jean-Luc Godard has died. He redefined what film is, and leaves a staggering legacy

So, adieu Jean-Luc Godard. The titan of French cinema has died, aged 91, leaving behind a staggering legacy.

ABC News

The Loop: Twitter whistleblower's spy allegations, Ukraine pushes to reclaim more territory, and national cabinet debates extending pandemic payments

Here's your quick catch-up of news happening around the world.

Chicago Tribune

Jean-Luc Godard appreciation: ‘I want to know the future. Don’t you?’

“At the cinema, we do not think, we are thought,” wrote the 19-year-old critic and future filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard in 1950. This is how strongly Godard responded to the screen, his future canvas. And our eternal wonder.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jean-Luc Godard, director of ‘Breathless,’ dies at 91

The iconic “enfant terrible” of the French New Wave revolutionized popular cinema starting in 1960. A family statement gave assisted suicide, which is legal in Switzerland where the filmmaker resided, as the cause of his death.

Evening Standard

Six facts about Jean-Luc Goddard – the godfather of modernist cinema

Godard poured himself into his films and pioneered modernist cinematic techniques

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