On this day, Jean-Luc Godard (1930), legendary French-Swiss director, was born. “From Breathless on, Godard redefined the very idea of what a movie was and where it could go. No one was as daring as Godard.” Martin Scorsese The film, a behind-the-scenes film about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960) | History of Cinema

Bande à part (1964), directed by Jean-Luc Godard Quentin Tarantino: “That’s one aspect of Godard that I found very liberating — movies commenting on themselves, movies and movie history. To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionised their forms.” | History of Cinema