4 Shots From 4 Films: Special French Cinema Edition

Posted on April 9, 2026 by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 (or more) Shots From 4 (or more) Films is just what it says it is, 4 (or more) shots from 4 (or more) of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 (or more) Shots From 4 (or more) Films lets the visuals do the talking.

Today, on Jean-Paul Belmondo’s birthday, we pay tribute to French cinema! It’s time for….

4 Shots From 4 French Film

The 400 Blows (1959, dir by François Truffaut, DP: Henri Decae)

Breathless (1960, dir by Jean-Luc Godard, DP: Raoul Coutard)

The Iron Rose (1973, dir by Jean Rollin)

The Girl With A Bracelet (2020, dir by Stéphane Demoustier, DP: Sylvain Verdet)

Song of the Day: Theme de Camille by Georges Delerue

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s song of the day come from the Georges Delerue-composed score of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 film, Le Mepris. If this song sounds familiar but you haven’t seen Le Mepris, you may have heard it in Martin Scorsese’s Casino.

Scene That I Love: Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today, in honor of what would have been the birthday of French director Jean-Luc Godard’s birthday, our scene of the day comes from Godard Alphaville, a 1965 film that mixed philosophy with science fiction and film noir.

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4 Shots From 4 Films: Special Jean-Luc Godard Edition

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films is all about letting the visuals do the talking.

Today would have been Jean-Luc Godard’s 95th birthday. It’s time for….

4 Shots From 4 Jean-Luc Godard Films

À bout de souffle (1960, directed by Jean-Luc Godard)

Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965, directed by Jean-Luc Godard)

Made in U.S.A. (1966, directed by Jean-Luc Godard)

Tout Va Bien (1972, directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin)

4 Shots From 4 Films: Special 2014 Edition

Posted on September 28, 2025 by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!

Today, we pay tribute to the cinematic year of 2014. It’s time for

4 Shots From 4 2014 Films

Goodbye to Language (2014, dir by Jean-Luc Godard, DP: Fabrice Aragno)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, dir by Wes Anderson, DP: Robert Yeoman)

Boyhood (2014, dir by Richard Linklater, DP: Lee Daniel)

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, dir by James Gunn, DP: Ben Davis)

Scenes I Love: Anna Karina in Bande à part

Posted on September 22, 2025 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina

With today’s scene of the day, we pay tribute to Anna Karina, who would have been 85 years old today.

From 1964’s Bande à part:

4 Shots From 4 Films: Special French Cinema Edition

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today, on Jean-Paul Belmondo’s birthday, we pay tribute to French cinema! It’s time for….

4 Shots From 4 French Films

The Rules of the Games (1939, dir by Jean Renoir, DP: Jean-Paul Alphen, Jean Bachelet, Jacques Lemare, Alain Renoir)

Alphaville (1965, dir by Jean-Luc Godard, DP: Raoul Coutard)

Day For Night (1973, dir by François Truffaut, DP: Pierre-William Glenn)

Night of the Hunted (1980, dir by Jean Rollin)

Scenes That I Love: The Ending of Breathless

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today would have been the 92nd birthday of international screen icon, Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Belmondo spent the majority of his career in France, where he was one of the early faces of the New Wave and also a prominent action star, famed for doing his own very dangerous stunts. In America, he was best-known for his starring turn in Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. In Breathless, Belmondo was the perfect existential outlaw, living life day-by-day and obviously doomed but still so incredibly magnetic and stylish.

In tribute to Belmondo, today’s scene that I love is the final moments of Breathless, with Belmondo and Jean Seberg.