From Martin Scorsese to Jim Jarmush: 10 films inspired by Jean-Luc Godard. PHOTO

“Whoever jumps into the void owes no explanation to whoever stands still and looks”. This sentence contains all the courage that the French director and screenwriter Jean-Luc Godard, who died at 91, poured into his extraordinary films. A master from whose work many important artists have drawn for their works: here are the most beautiful films influenced by him (in the photo, a scene from A Bout de Souffle – WEBPHOTO)

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Masterpieces such as “Up to the last breath” (1960) and “Bande à part” (1964) are among Godard’s feature films that have a prominent place in the history of world cinema. Godard’s debut feature film was inspired by Jim Jarmush for his “Stranger Than Paradise” (1984) (WEBPHOTO)

Jean-Luc Godard, photos of the most famous films

John Lurie is Willie, a New York hipster, who is fond of his young Hungarian cousin Eva (Eszter Balint) who has come to visit him without warning. Eva, Willie and her partner Eddie (Richard Edson) embark on a journey to Florida, a physical but also a philosophical journey. The film is also famous for being shot with long sequences (WEBPHOTO)

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“Buffalo ’66” (1998) is considered the masterpiece of actor and director Vincent Gallo. In this film childhood traumas are explored through cinematic language. The plot becomes a secondary element to the visual gimmicks employed by the director, just like Godard did (WEBPHOTO)

“The character and his feelings are true and many situations with his family are similar to those I experienced with my mother and father, as is the concept of being loved by someone, even by force,” said Gallo. about his film, while denying the autobiographical character (WEBPHOTO)

“Schizopolis” (1996) by Steven Soderbergh is a surrealist experimental comedy that follows the rise of a man, played by the director himself, who works for a guru of a Scientology-like movement (YouTube)

The whole language of Godard inspired the cinematographic technique used by Soderbergh, in particular the one used in “Bande à part” (1964) (WEBPHOTO)

For “Sunday in church, Monday in hell” (1973), Martin Scorsese broke several rules of the crime drama, deconstructing and recomposing the identity of a Little Italy gangster (WEBPHOTO)

In the film he uses the same, subversive editing techniques used by Godard in the opening sequence of “Up to the Last Breath” (1960) (WEBPHOTO)

“Hong Kong Express” (1994) by Wong Kar-wai is an unconventional exploration of the concept of love, told in two overlapping stories. Starring two Hong Kong policemen in love, busy mulling over their sentimental problems (WEBPHOTO)

The theme of lovers lost in the great modern cities, in addition to the editing techniques that bring the viewer to the center of the story, still recalls “À bout de souffle” (WEBPHOTO)

Hal Hartley made Simple Men in 1992, concluding the Long Island Trilogy with this chapter. It is the story of a New York swindler and his brother, a graduate in philosophy, who have decided to go in search of his father, who has become a terrorist. On their way they meet the epileptic Elina and her friend Kate (WEBPHOTO)

Hartley explicitly quotes a scene from “Bande à part”, the one in which Anna Karina and her friends dance in a smoky jazz club in Paris (WEBPHOTO)

In “WR: Mysteries of the Organism” (1971), Serbian director Dušan Makavejev wanted to create a satirical documentary, which explores communist politics and sexuality, chronicling the controversial life and work of the Austro-American psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (YouTube )

The unconventional work is reminiscent of that of the second period of Godard’s filmography, which includes works such as “Weekend” (1967) and “Tout va bien” (1972) (WEBPHOTO)

“Mauvais Sang” (1986) by Leo Carax is the story of a society ravaged by a sexually transmitted disease called STBO. It spreads by having sex without any emotional involvement. The main victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity (WEBPHOTO)

In this dystopian work we can read against the light the influence that Godard’s “Alphaville” (1965) had on Carax. As he explained himself, “Mauvais Sang is a film that loves cinema, but not the contemporary one” (WEBPHOTO)

Arthur Penn’s “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) is a biopic about a pair of criminal lovers. This work by Penn is considered an expression of the counterculture, aimed at attacking the conservative Hollywood establishment (WEBPHOTO)

In an interview, screenwriters David Newman and Robert Benton revealed that the detailed work, summarized in a seventy-five-page document, was heavily inspired by the works of French directors Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut (WEBPHOTO)

“Medium Cool” (1969) by Haskell Wexler is considered another cornerstone of the so-called New Era of Hollywood. It tells the story of a cameraman who films daring scenes during Chicago’s social unrest during the 1968 Democratic Convention. His goal is to remain detached from everything, while maintaining an illusory idea of ​​objectivity (WEBPHOTO)

The director cited Godard’s works as the primary inspiration for the film, using the concept of cinema-truth to make a metaphorical analysis of the cinematic medium (WEBPHOTO)

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