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Michael Witt

@mjewitt.bsky.social
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Professor of Cinema History at University of Roehampton, London. Author of Jean-Luc Godard’s Unmade and Abandoned Projects (2025) and Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian (2013). pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/per…

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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bloomsbury have just published a more affordable paperback edition of my recent book, JEAN-LUC GODARD'S UNMADE AND ABANDONED PROJECTS. For those in the US, they are offering a 30% discount and free delivery. Just enter the promo code GODARD30 at checkout. www.bloomsbury.com/.../jeanluc-...
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The film season I have curated at L’Alliance in New York devoted to Godard’s unmade and abandoned projects is now underway. youtu.be/EGWL-2DUXsQ?...
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Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned
YouTube video by L'Alliance New York
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm grateful to Sam Di Iorio and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York for inviting me to deliver this guest lecture next Thursday, which is open to all.
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Details of the Jean-Luc Godard season I've curated at L'Alliance in New York from 15 September to 15 October. I'll be introducing screenings there on 15, 18 and 22 September. lallianceny.org/event/jean-l...
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Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned - L'Alliance New York
Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned - L'Alliance
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Special screening with Paul Grivas at the ICA in London this Saturday ica.art/jlg-unmade-h...
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ICA | History + Q&A
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Very grateful to have been given the opportunity to select and present this programme at FIDMarseille later this week. fidmarseille.org/en/festivals...
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FID Marseille | Carte blanche à Michael Witt : Passion, avant et après
FID Marseille is an international film festival held each year at the beginning of summer in the heart of Marseille. Its programme features numerous world and international premieres, showcasing aroun...
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The 'Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned' film season continues at the ICA in London on Saturday 18 July at 4.00pm with a programme of films devoted to the theme of history. www.ica.art/films/jlg-un...
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ICA | History + Q&A
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The 'Godard: Unmade and Abandoned' film season continues at the ICA in London on Sunday 28 June at 2.00pm with a programme of films devoted to Godard's relationship with the Swiss author Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz: www.ica.art/films/jlg-ra...
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ICA | Literary Adaptation II: Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The 'Godard: Unmade and Abandoned' film season continues at the ICA in London on Sunday 7 June at 2.00pm with a double bill devoted to Godard's relationship with Shakespeare and Orson Welles: - Filming Othello (Orson Welles, 1978) - King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard, 1987) ica.art/films/jlg-sh...
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ICA | Shakespeare
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The 'Godard: Unmade and Abandoned' season continues at the ICA in London on 24 May at 1.00pm with a programme of films devoted to the topic of the Godardian 'audiovisual script'. www.ica.art/films/jlg-th...
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ICA | The Audiovisual Script
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I am deeply grateful to The Leverhulme Trust for awarding me the Research Fellowship that made it possible for me to research and write my recent study of Jean-Luc Godard’s unmade and abandoned projects. bsky.app/profile/leve...
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
A reminder of this double bill devoted to the topic of the Godardian remake taking place at the ICA on Saturday 9 May at 7.00pm: ica.art/jlg-unmade-t...
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ICA | The Remake
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Delighted to have contributed an intro and interview to this landmark Blu-ray box set release of Godard’s HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA, plus seven further films by JLG alone or in collaboration with Anne-Marie Miéville. Available for pre-order now... www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/his...
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Histoire(s) du cinéma and other works (LE)
One of Sight and Sound's "100 greatest film of all time", Jean-Luc Godard’s multilayered magnum opus surveys the history of cinema. Release here with other late works.
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The 'JLG: Unmade and Abandoned' season continues at the ICA on 9 May with a double bill on the Godardian remake: Jacques Becker’s TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI (1954), which Godard once planned to remake, and NUMÉRO DEUX (1975), which began as a remake of À BOUT DE SOUFFLE (1960). ica.art/jlg-unmade-t...
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I enjoyed speaking to Bert Rebhandl recently about my new book on Godard's unmade and abandoned projects. A transcript of our lengthy conversation is available in the current issue of the German quarterly CARGO. www.cargo-film.de/heft/69/
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Ausgabe 69 März 2026 cargo Film Medien Kultur Zeitschrift
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The 'Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned' film season at the ICA in London continues on Sunday 29 March at 1.00pm with a programme of rarely screened films from the late 1960s and 1970s devoted to Palestine. ica.art/films/jlg-pa...
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ICA | Palestine
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I'm grateful to Emilie Bickerton for taking the time to engage at length with my book on Godard's unmade and abandoned projects in her review essay for New Left Review. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...
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Emilie Bickerton, Subterranean Godard, NLR 157, January–February 2026
Emilie Bickerton on Michael Witt, Jean-Luc Godard’s Unmade and Abandoned Projects. A ‘negative’ history that sheds new light on the master filmmaker.
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I am grateful to Pierre Eugène for his long, thoughtful and generous review of my book on Jean-Luc Godard’s unmade and abandoned projects in the March issue of CAHIERS DU CINÉMA.
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The 'Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned' season at the ICA (London) continues on Sunday 8 March with 3 films devoted to the ‘New American Revolution’: MONTEREY POP, BLACK PANTHERS, and ONE P.M., which drew on the footage shot for Godard‘s ONE AMERICAN MOVIE. www.ica.art/films/jlg-ne...
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ICA | New American Revolution
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 22/12/2025
To coincide with the publication of his Leverhulme-funded book, @mjewitt.bsky.social is curating an associated film season at the ICA in London, which runs from November 2025 to June 2026: ica.art/films/jean-l...
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ICA | Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The 'Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned' film season at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London continues on Sunday 11 January at 1.30pm with a double bill devoted to Godard's relationship with theatre in the 1960s. ica.art/jlg-theatre
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ICA | Theatre
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Grateful to Tillo Huygelen for his generous comments on my book on Godard's unmade and abandoned projects in his roundup of recently published film books for Sabzian. His survey brought to my attention several other recent books I’ll now be getting hold of. sabzian.be/news/new-boo...
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New Book Releases / Winter 2026
Sabzian’s seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications.
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The 'Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned' season at the ICA in London continues next Tuesday 9 December at 6.30pm with a double bill devoted to the topic of Godard's approach to literary adaptation through reference to his relationship with the work of Guy de Maupassant. ica.art/godard-maupa...
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ICA | Literary Adaptation I: Guy de Maupassant
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Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Fascinating initial comments from John Wyver @illuminations.bsky.social after last night's Godard "world premiere" at ICA Cinema www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/jean-luc-god...
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Jean-Luc Godard's 'Wild Palms' premiere - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: ‘What’s language, mummy?’ a small boy asks actor Marina Vlady (above,. top) playing a waking Juliette Jeanson in Jean-Luc Godard’s Wild Palms, the world premiere of which was held a...
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I'm delighted to announce that my new book, JEAN-LUC GODARD’S UNMADE AND ABANDONED PROJECTS, has now been published by Bloomsbury. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/jeanluc-g...
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Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
To coincide with the imminent publication of my book on Jean-Luc Godard's unmade and abandoned projects, I'm curating a film season at the ICA (London). This opens on Tuesday 25 November with a very rare 35mm screening and will continue into the spring. ica.art/films/jean-l...
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ICA | Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned
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