Born on this day – Jean-Luc Godard:

 

Jean-Luc Godard

Director

Writer

December 3, 1930 – September 13, 2022

On this day in movie history - Band of Outsiders (1964)

Band of Outsiders

directed and written by Jean-Luc Godard,

based on the novel Fools’ Gold by Dolores Hitchens,

was released in France on August 5, 1964.

French title: Bande à part.

Music by Michel Legrand.

Cast:

Anna Karina, Danièle Girard, Louisa Colpeyn, Chantal Darget, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur, Georges Staquet, Ernest Menzer, Jean-Claude Rémoleux, Michel Delahaye, Louis Jojot, Claude Makovski, Michèle Seghers, Jean-Luc Godard.

On this day in movie history - Détective (1985)

Détective

directed by Jean-Luc Godard,

written by Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Sarde, Anne-Marie Miéville and Philippe Setbon,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival, in France, on May 10, 1985.

Music by Emmanuel Chabrier, Frédéric Chopin, Ornette Coleman, Arthur Honegger, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert and Jean Schwarz.

Cast:

Laurent Terzieff, Aurelle Doazan, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Baye, Claude Brasseur, Johnny Hallyday, Alain Cuny, Xavier Saint-Macary, Pierre Bertin, Alexandra Garijo, Stéphane Ferrara, Emmanuelle Seigner, Eugène Berthier, Julie Delpy, Cyrille Dajinckourt, Ann-Gisel Glass, Cyrille Autin, Erich von Stroheim.

On this day in movie history - Alphaville (1965)

Alphaville

a.k.a. Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution,

directed and written by Jean-Luc Godard,

was released in France on May 5, 1965.

Music by Paul Misraki.

Cast:

Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Valérie Boisgel, Jean-Louis Comolli, Michel Delahaye, Jean-André Fieschi, Christa Lang, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, Howard Vernon. 

On this day in movie history - Breathless (1960)

Breathless

French title: À bout de souffle,

directed and written by Jean-Luc Godard,

based on a story by François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol,

was released in the United States on March 16, 1960.

Music by Martial Solal.

Cast:

Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Roger Hanin, Van Doude, Claude Mansard, Liliane Dreyfus, Michel Fabre, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Balducci, André S. Labarthe, François Moreuil, Jacques Lourcelles, Liliane Robin, Gérard Brach, Philippe de Broca, José Bénazéraf,Jean Domarchi, Jean Douchet, Raymond Huntley, Louiguy, Michel Mourlet, Guido Orlando, Madame Paul, Jean-Louis Richard, Jacques Serguine, Jacques Siclier, Virginie Ullmann, Emile Villion.