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Later works
His return to somewhat more traditional fiction was marked with Sauve qui peut
(la vie) (1980), the first of a series of more mainstream films marked by
autobiographical currents: for example Passion (1982), Lettre à Freddy Buache
(1982), Prénom Carmen (1984), and Grandeur et décadence (1986). There was,
though, another flurry of controversy with Je vous salue, Marie (1985), which
was condemned by the Catholic Church for alleged heresy, and also with King Lear
(1987), an extraordinary but much-excoriated essay on William Shakespeare and
language.
His later films have been marked by great formal beauty and frequently a sense
of requiem — films such as Nouvelle Vague (New Wave, 1990), the autobiographical
JLG/JLG, autoportrait de décembre (JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December, 1995),
and For Ever Mozart (1996). Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro (Germany Year 90 Nine
Zero, 1991) was a quasi-sequel to Alphaville but done with an elegiac tone and
focus on the inevitable decay of age. During the 1990s he also produced perhaps
the most important work of his career in the multi-part series Histoire(s) du
cinéma, which combined all the innovations of his video work with a passionate
engagement in the issues of twentieth-century history and the history of film
itself.
Filmography
For a list of all films directed by Jean-Luc Godard, see Jean-Luc Godard
filmography.
Further reading
Godard Bibliography (via UC Berkeley)
Almeida, Jane. Dziga Vertov Group. Sao Paulo: witz, 2005. ISBN 85-98100-05-6.
Dixon, Wheeler Winston. The Films of Jean-Luc Godard. Albany: State University
of New York Press, 1997.
Godard, Jean-Luc: The Future(s) of Film. Three Interviews 2000/01. Bern -
Berlin: Verlag Gachnang & Springer, 2002. ISBN 978-3-906127-62-0
Loshitzky, Yosefa. The Radical Faces of Godard and Bertolucci.
MacCabe, Colin. 2003. Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70. London:
Bloomsbury.
MacCabe, Colin. 1980. Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics. London: Macmillan.
Morrey, Douglas. 2005. Jean-Luc Godard. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
ISBN 0-7190-6759-6
Silverman, Kaja and Farocki, Harun. 1998. Speaking About Godard. New York: New
York University Press.
Sterrit, David. 1999. The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Temple, Michael and Williams, James S. (eds). 2000. The Cinema alone: Essays on
the Work of Jean-Luc Godard 1985-2000. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
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