Jean-Luc Godard (1930 - 2022) was a Franco-Swiss filmmaker, critic, and a leading member of the French New Wave movement of the 1960s alongside such luminaries as Francois Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, Agnes Varda, and Alain Resnais.  Known for his stylistic innovations that deconstructed the conventions of mainstream narrative cinema, and expanded the possibilities of film form, Godard has been hailed as the most provocative, radical, and influential of the New Wave filmmakers. His work expressed a profound knowledge of film history, and a comprehensive understanding of the currents of modern thought, especially existential and Marxist philosophy.