A career of perfect shots in one memorial gallery.
The world of cinematography this week lost one of its most influential if widely-unheralded members, the inimitable Raoul Coutard, who passed away at the age of 92. Through his work with French New Wave pioneers Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, and Jacques Demy among others, Coutard helped establish the simultaneously joyous and pensive aesthetic of the movement, in turn inspiring generations of filmmakers in his own country and around the world. A list of the films he shot reads like a New Wave best-of and we could think of no better way to celebrate the man’s life than by a gallery of the work he left behind.
A bout de soufflé/Breathless (1960) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Tirez sur le Pianiste/Shoot the Piano Player (1960) dir. Francois Truffaut
Lola (1961) dir. Jacques Demy
Une femme est une femme/A Woman is a Woman (1961) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Jules and Jim (1962) dir. Francois Truffaut
Vivre sa vie/My Life to Live (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
La Petit Soldat (1963) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Le mepris/Contempt (1963) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
La peau douce/The Soft Skin (1964) dir. Francois Truffaut
Bande a parte/Band of Outsiders (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Alphaville (1965) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Pierrot le Fou (1965) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Made in U.S.A. (1966) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Weekend (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
The Bride Wore Black (1968) dir. Francois Truffaut
Z (1969) dir. Costa-Gravas
Max Mon Amour (1986) dir. Nagisa Oshima
The Birth of Love (1993) Phillipe Garrel
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