Writing on Godard

Sight & Sound on Godard

Paris Match: Godard and Cahiers

When Godard came to Paris in 1950 he found a city obsessed with cinema. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith explores how Cahiers' café days shaped his future film-making.

Godard in the bfi National Library

There has been a great deal written on Godard - commentary, criticism, biography etc - and he himself has been a prolific writer. The bfi National Library holds a considerable amount of this material, in books, journals, news cuttings, multimedia etc. You can explore the Library's book holdings, using the online catalogue, but as an example, you could try this preset search:

Books on Jean-Luc Godard

Many other searches are possible - online help is available for using the catalogue.

The bfi National Library is the major national research collection of documentation and information on film and television. The Library is open to the public, although users must buy day or annual passes for the Reading Room, where the library collections can be consulted. You can also access our BID Database, which contains comprehensive filmographic information, as well as providing further references to journal articles and other non-book holdings. Only the Library book catalogue can be searched online before you visit.

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