The Latest Breaking News from JeanLuc Godard

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

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.”

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

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.

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

I am one of the Godard-obsessed.

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

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

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.

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…