Jean-Paul Belmondo News

Pierrot Le Fou, review An immaculately restored print of Godard's Pierrot Le Fou is getting extended play at the BFI as part of their French New Wave season.

Anna Karina was the poster girl of the French new wave: Jean-Luc Godard's mercurial, mysterious muse .

The Nouvelle Vague's stylish films have become a byword for insouciance and have a place in cinema history - but what are they really about? Adam Thirlwell on the joyful experiment of a group of friends Adam Thirlwell A bout de souffle ... described by Godard as a documentary on Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo in a film by Jean-Luc Godard.

In many respects the title character played by Jean-Paul Belmondo in the black-and-white 1961 drama "LA©on Morin, PrAatre" looks like a typical Jean-Pierre Melville tough, at least from the chin up.

Jean-Luc Godard once said, "All you need for a good movie is a girl and a gun." With his 1965 release "Pierrot le Fou," the audience is given both, wrapped in the same bold and avant-garde package that is ...

As we await with suspended breath the event for which we have so ached and longed--the Ravens-Steelers game--take a little culture break and nibble on the following items.

The economy is down, yet the French are flocking in near record numbers to entertainment, or culture as they prefer to call it.