Editing Jean-Luc Godard (section)

== Legacy ==
[[File:Godard pochoir.jpg|thumb|A stencil depicting Godard on a wall in Montreal.]]
Godard has been recognised as one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century and one of the leaders of the French New Wave.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Carl Holm |title=Nouvelle Vague filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard at 90 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/nouvelle-vague-filmmaker-jean-luc-godard-at-90/a-55793767 |website=DW |publisher=Deutsche Welle |access-date=3 January 2022 |date=3 December 2020 |archive-date=3 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103075128/https://www.dw.com/en/nouvelle-vague-filmmaker-jean-luc-godard-at-90/a-55793767 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1969, film critic [[Roger Ebert]] wrote about Godard's importance in cinema:

{{Blockquote|Godard is a director of the very first rank; no other director in the 1960s has had more influence on the development of the feature-length film. Like [[James Joyce|Joyce]] in fiction or [[Samuel Beckett|Beckett]] in theater, he is a pioneer whose present work is not acceptable to present audiences. But his influence on other directors is gradually creating and educating an audience that will, perhaps in the next generation, be able to look back at his films and see that this is where their cinema began.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Roger Ebert |title=On Jean-Luc Godard |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/on-jean-luc-godard |website=RogerEbert.com LLC |access-date=3 January 2022 |date=April 30, 1969 |archive-date=3 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103075129/https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/on-jean-luc-godard |url-status=live }}</ref>}}In 2001, Ebert recalled his early days as a critic, writing "As much as we talked about [[Quentin Tarantino|Tarantino]] after ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', we talked about Godard in those days."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |year=2001 |title=My Life to Live |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-vivre-sa-vie--my-life-to-live-1963 |access-date=3 February 2023 |archive-date=12 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612004516/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-vivre-sa-vie--my-life-to-live-1963 |url-status=live }}</ref> Tarantino named his production company [[A Band Apart]], a reference to Godard's [[Bande à part (film)|1964 film]].<ref name="BBC"/> Tarantino says that "To me Godard did to movies what [[Bob Dylan]] did to music. They both revolutionized their forms."<ref name=NYTObit/>

Godard's works and innovations were praised by notable directors such as [[Michelangelo Antonioni]]<ref>{{cite book |author1=Bert Cardullo |author2=Michelangelo Antonioni |title=Michelangelo Antonioni – Interviews |date=2008 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=9781934110652 |page=94}}</ref> and [[Satyajit Ray]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Satyajit Ray on Cinema |date=2 April 2013 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231535472 |page=99}}</ref> [[Fritz Lang]] agreed to take part in Godard's film ''[[Le Mépris]]'' due to his admiration of Godard as a director.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Wheeler W. Dixon |title=The Films of Jean-Luc Godard |date=6 March 1997 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=9780791432860 |page=42 |quote=Fritz Lang accepted because he admired Godard's work as a director, and agreed to act in the [[Le Mépris|film]], but to act only, and not interfere with Godard's creative process as a filmmaker.}}</ref> [[Akira Kurosawa]] listed ''[[Breathless (1960 film)|Breathless]]'' as one of his 100 favourite films.<ref>{{cite web|author=Lee Thomas-Mason|title=From Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/akira-kurosawa-100-favourite-films-list/|website=Far Out|date=12 January 2021|publisher=Far Out Magazine|access-date=21 August 2021|archive-date=10 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610003407/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/akira-kurosawa-100-favourite-films-list/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Akira Kurosawa's Top 100 Movies!|url=http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2009/01/17/akira-kurosawas-top-100-movies/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327124349/http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2009/01/17/akira-kurosawas-top-100-movies/|archive-date=27 March 2010}}</ref> [[Ingmar Bergman]] strongly disliked Godard, stating: "I've never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. He's made his films for the critics. One of the movies, ''Masculin Féminin'' (1966), was shot here in Sweden. It was mind-numbingly boring."<ref>{{Cite web|date=11 August 2021|title=The reason why Ingmar Bergman hated Jean-Luc Godard movies|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-ingmar-bergman-hated-jean-luc-godard-films/|access-date=15 October 2023|website=faroutmagazine.co.uk|language=en-US|archive-date=17 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017222043/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-ingmar-bergman-hated-jean-luc-godard-films/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Orson Welles]] admired Godard as a director but criticized him as a thinker, telling [[Peter Bogdanovich]]: "He is the definitive ''influence'' if not really the first great film artist of this last decade, and his gifts as a director are enormous. I just can't take him very seriously as a ''thinker''—and that's where we seem to differ, because ''he'' does."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bogdanovich |first=Peter |title=[[This is Orson Welles]] |edition=Revised |pages=139}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Glenn Kenny |title=The Other Side of the Wind |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-other-side-of-the-wind-2018 |website=RogerEbert.com LLC. |access-date=14 September 2022 |date=2 November 2018 |quote=In that book Welles says of Godard, "What's most admirable about him is his marvelous contempt for the machinery of movies and even movies themselves—a kind of anarchistic, nihilistic contempt for the medium—which, when he's at his best and most vigorous, is very exciting." |archive-date=14 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914161748/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-other-side-of-the-wind-2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> 

[[David Thomson (film critic)|David Thomson]] reached a similar conclusion, writing that "Godard's greatness rests in his grasping of the idea that films are made of moving images, of moments from films, of images projected in front of audiences" but that "He knows only cinema: on politics and real life he is childish and pretentious." Still, Thomson calls Godard's early films "a magnificent critical explanation of American movies" and "one of the inescapable bodies of work" and deserving of retrospectives.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Thomson |first=David |title=[[The New Biographical Dictionary of Film]] |year=2010 |edition=Fifth |pages=384–385}}</ref> Thomson included ''[[Pierrot le Fou]]'' on his ''[[Sight and Sound| Sight & Sound]]'' list.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Thomson |first=David |year=2012 |title=David Thomson's Top Ten |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/667 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818140915/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/667 |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 August 2016 |journal=[[Sight and Sound]]}}</ref> Political activist, critic and filmmaker [[Tariq Ali]] listed Godard's film ''[[Tout Va Bien]]'' as one of his ten favorite films of all time in the 2012 ''Sight and Sound'' critics' poll.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/66 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818105547/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/66 | url-status=dead | archive-date=18 August 2016 |title = Tariq Ali |publisher=British Film Institute}}</ref> American film critic [[Armond White]] listed Godard's film [[Nouvelle Vague (1990 film)|''Nouvelle Vague'']] as one of his top ten favorite films in the same poll.<ref>{{cite web |title=Armond White |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/783 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818132951/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/783 |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 August 2016 |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=14 September 2022 |quote=Godard's rarely screened Nouvelle Vague looms in my memory as his grandest work – grander and more important still due to cinephilia's recent decline.}}</ref> [[Susan Sontag]] called ''[[Vivre sa vie]]'' "one of the most extraordinary, beautiful and original works of art I know of."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Sontag|first=Susan|author-link=Susan Sontag|title=On Godard's Vivre sa vie|magazine=Moviegoer|issue=2|date=Summer–Autumn 1964|page=9}}</ref> Four of Godard's films are included on the 2022 edition of the ''Sight and Sound'' list of 100 Greatest Films: ''Breathless'' (38), ''Le Mépris'' (54), ''[[Histoire(s) du cinéma]]'' (78) and ''Pierrot le Fou'' (85).<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 100 Greatest Films of All Time |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time |access-date=14 September 2022 |publisher=British Film Institute |language=en |archive-date=18 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318214144/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/greatest-films-all-time |url-status=live }}</ref>

The 60th [[New York Film Festival]] paid tribute to Godard, who died earlier that year.<ref>{{cite web| title=60 Years of NYFF: Discussing Jean-Luc Godard's Life and Career| date=September 16, 2022| url=https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2022/daily/60-years-of-nyff-discussing-jean-luc-godards-life-career/}}</ref> ''[[The Onion]]'' paid homage to him with the headline "Jean-Luc Godard Dies At End of Life In Uncharacteristically Linear Narrative Choice."<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 September 2022 |title=Jean-Luc Godard Dies At End of Life In Uncharacteristically Linear Narrative Choice |url=https://www.theonion.com/jean-luc-godard-dies-at-end-of-life-in-uncharacteristic-1849530617 |website=[[The Onion]] |access-date=2 February 2023 |archive-date=2 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202000051/https://www.theonion.com/jean-luc-godard-dies-at-end-of-life-in-uncharacteristic-1849530617 |url-status=live }}</ref>