Raoul Coutard, R.I.P.
Raoul Coutard, the cinematographer best-known for his radical work on many of the key features films of the French new wave, has died at the age of 92. Coutard shot many of the films (including the heart-breakingly beautiful Pierrot le fou, 1965, above) that meant the most to me as I was discovering cinema in the 1970s and ’80s; below I have embedded a dozen of these. The Guardian obituary by James S Williams is here. ‘Light of day: Raoul Coutard on shooting film for Jean-Luc Godard’, a 1965 text by Coutard edited Michel Cournot, has been republished as a tribute on the Sight & Sound website. And Film Comment here has a 2012 interview with the cinematographer.
A Bout de souffle, 1959
Tirez sur le pianiste, 1960
Lola, 1961
Une femme est une femme, 1961
Jules et Jim, 1962
Le petit soldat, 1963
Les carabiniers, 1963
Alphaville, 1965
Pierrot le fou, 1965
2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle, 1967
La chinoise, 1967
Passion, 1982
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