Jean-Luc Godard is one of the most controversial and prolific film- makers in history. Born in France in 1930 to a wealthy family from Switzerland, Godard lived in his parent's native country ... him one of the most influential directors in history. Some of the techniques Godard implemented include the use of jump cuts, handheld cameras and portable tape machines. In 1959, Jean-Luc Godard released his first feature film Breathless. In this film, he used several technical characteristics of the New Wave. Probably the most noticeable of these was the use of jump ... , along with Chabrol, Truff...

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... of the French New Wave borrowed heavily from the conventions of the American gangster film in works like Breathless by Jean-Luc Goddard. (Pg. 415) Like Truffaut, Raoul Coutard worked as director of photography with prolific and stylistic director Jean-Luc Goddard. Unlike Truffaut, Godard is a "militantly intellectual and ideologically committed filmmaker whose films almost always involve some form of autocritique or ... today. Most, if not all modern filmmakers create films in the style of the French New Wave. Quentin Tarantino with his nonlinear sequencing in Pulp Fiction follows that ...

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