Godard Is Gone — A Remembrance Of The Stubborn & Iconoclastic Film Director

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Stubborn and iconoclastic as always, Jean-Luc Godard has passed to another realm–and by his own choice– at age 91. Ever-iconoclastic, impudent and exasperating, forever pushing boundaries but remaining elusive, and an artist in every fiber of his being, Godard always did exactly what he wanted to do; for a few years many followed him ardently, and for lots of us in the 1960s he led the way into a vastly exciting and personal form of cinema.

Thereafter he went entirely his own way, losing most of his audience but remaining at the forefront of exploring what cinema is, could be, and, sometimes, what it absolutely shouldn’t be.The official obituaries and tributes will certainly convey Godard’s importance and influence through the 1960s, the way he helped liberate cinema from its literary and orderly appearance to something far more energized, unexpected, jarring and often exhilarating.

Although Godard consumed and brilliantly wrote about the existing cinema as a young critic, he never followed the accepted rules of the game creatively.

Instead, he introduces jarring cuts, abrupt transitions, wild pursuits through city streets, spontaneous amorous escapades and an unending barrage of fresh ideas about how to put stories and characters on the screen in a vibrant real world, initially on the streets of Paris in Breathless.Jean-Luc Godard Tributes Pour In From The World Of Cinema And Beyond: “National Treasure”I was 17, a year away from college, when one Saturday afternoon I ventured to downtown Chicago’s immortal Clark Theater, where a ticket cost well under a dollar and featured what was called the “Little Gals’ Gallery,” a mezzanine reserved for women only (mostly middle-aged shoppers keen to take a load off their feet for a