One of the most important filmmakers in the latter half of the 20th century, Jean-Luc Godard’s reputation remains enduringly linked with the French nouvelle vague movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s; but his protean work in film and video has spanned more than six decades, from his first articles as a critic in 1950 to the planned release of Adieu au langage [Good Bye to Language] in 2015, and in the process he has repeatedly revolutionised conceptions of both his own work and of the aesthetic potential of the cinema as a whole.