Trivia

His falling-out with Francois Truffaut was a savage one - Truffaut famously called him "the Ursula Andress of militancy" - but after Truffaut's early death in 1984, Godard wrote a moving tribute to his former friend and deeply regretted their quarrel.

Had a falling out with François Truffaut after some critical remarks he made on Truffaut's film Day for Night (1973) to which Truffaut made it clear that he considered Godard overly cynical in his views and claimed that Godard tried to put down other filmmakers only to raise regard of his own work.

A huge fan of American auteur Nicholas Ray and famously said that "the cinema is Nicholas Ray".

Was offered the opportunity to direct Bonnie and Clyde (1967) after François Truffaut declined.

As of the 5th edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (edited by Steven Jay Schneider), 8 of Godard's films are listed: Breathless (1960), Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Masculine Feminine (1966), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967) and Weekend (1967).

Was voted the 31st Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

On his short film Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958) Godard had to go and do military service before he could record the soundtrack.

More than half of Godard's 43 feature films had their American premieres at the New York Film Festival in Manhattan, and in October 2013 the Festival featured a comprehensive retrospective of his work.

He made Charlotte et son Jules (1960) as an homage to Jean Cocteau on a budget of five and a half thousand francs.

As a young man, invariably appeared wearing dark glasses, even indoors. His friend Agnès Varda cast him in the silent film-within-the-film in Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) purely so she could make him take his shades off: she said his eyes reminded her of Buster Keaton.

Studied at Lycée Buffon in Paris 1946-48.

Mentioned in the song 'Selvagem' by Paralamas do Sucesso.

Retrospective at the 10th New Horizons Film Festival (2010). 98 of his film have been shown.

Mentioned in the song 'Eduardo e Mônica' by Legião Urbana.

All his three wives had the same name, Anne.

Rolle, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland (since 1978) (2007)

Made the film Sympathy For the Devil in 1968 about the Rolling Stones trying to record Sympathy For the Devil interspersed with strange things such as a man reading a book in a toilet.

He was scheduled to direct King Lear late 1986 early 87.

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 392-400. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.