Jean-Luc Godard

French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand is asking Hollywood for its budget-weary producers, pressured directors and harried filmmakers yearning for a tax break. France has had a long and rich history of filmmaking, from the pioneering motion pict...

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday that it would present "The Godfather" director-producer Francis Ford Coppola with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award and give honorary Oscars to British film...

The moment one enters the gracious Upper West Side apartment of Eli Wallach, the home he has shared for decades with his wife and fellow actress, Anne Jackson, there is an unmistakable sense of life being well lived. Smiling and curious about his guest,...

Director Claude Chabrol, one of the founders of the New Wave movement that revolutionized French cinema, died Sunday. He was 80. Christophe Girard, who is responsible for cultural matters at Paris City Hall, announced Chabrol's death. No cause was given....

Revolutionary Road Paramount, $29.99; Blu-ray, $39.99 Despite the Oscar success of "American Beauty," Sam Mendes might be the best working director who has yet to make a truly outstanding film. Mendes' adaptation of Richard Yates' "soul-sick suburbia"...

If you want to see a film that might be a tad more demanding than Will Ferrell's "The Other Guys" this weekend, head over to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is showing a host of great films......

Roman Polanski is getting more support from the movie industry in his battle to avoid extradition to face sentencing in a sex case in Los Angeles. Several noted directors have signed a petition in support of Polanski at the Cannes......

Roman Polanski's sex case continues to be a topic of discussion -- and controversy-- at the Cannes Film Festival. Some top international directors have signed a petition in support of Polanski, who is fighting extradition from Switzerland to Los Angeles,....

True to the spirit of his latest conundrum, which ends with a title card declaring, in English, NO COMMENT, Jean-Luc Godard let "Film Socialisme" speak for itself in Cannes Monday. The reclusive Godard cancelled his trip, thereby axing the press......

It looks like even more bad news for embattled filmmaker Roman Polanski. While he's waiting for a Swiss court to rule on whether he'll be extradited to the U.S. for sentencing in the wildly notorious case involving his rape of......

The fundamental things apply: Belmondo and Seberg in "Breathless." What a pair of anniversaries we're celebrating today! Fifty years ago, Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" opened in Paris, where Godard shot it, pell-mell, the year before. In a single,...

The film fanatic Mulleavy sisters -- the designers du jour also known as Rodarte -- have collaborated with distributor Rialto Pictures to create two T-shirts commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film “Breathless.� Besides...