Jean-Paul Belmondo News

"I don't know why, but I'm picking up the scent of death." - Ferdinand The strength of Criterion's previous release of Godard's pulp crime masterpiece makes the decision to upgrade to Blu-ray a tough one&#8212until you see the image transfer, that is, and head to eBay to sell your old copy.

Made in 1965, but not appearing on U.S. screens till 1969, Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou is a film that's as maddening as you want to make it.

The movie is a French neo-noir that comes from 1962. The setting is the Parisian underworld.

SEP 12, 2009 - LEAVE IT TO A POSTMODERN PRANKSTER like Godard to insinuate, at first, that what we are watching is filmed reality, and subsequently blow that notion to bits by uncovering the artifice behind it all.

Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean-Pierre Melville's "LA©on Morin, Priest.'' Jean-Pierre Melville's movies weren't as flashy or playfully obstinate as Jean-Luc Godard's or as exuberant as Francois Truffaut's. But thanks to Rialto Pictures, he's been returned to moviegoers, first with the re-release of Melville's 1969 masterpiece, ...

French star's once quiet private life takes unexpected twist with new-found love for former Playboy model 43 years his junior Monday, 07 September 2009 With his craggy face and cigarette dangling from his lips, he was once known as the French Bogart a ' one of France's best loved film stars adored for his 1960s art-house performances and a string ...

French film legend Jean-Paul Belmondo has received death threats, his ex-wife told AFP on Friday, explaining why she refused to allow their daughter to spend her holiday with him.

French cinema's infatuation with the American crime movie was ratified when Jean-Paul Belmondo put his hipster spin on Humphrey Bogart in A bout de souffle.

French cinema's infatuation with the American crime movie was ratified when Jean-Paul Belmondo put his hipster spin on Humphrey Bogart in A bout de souffle.

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.