In this article, the author reflects on her personal experience, along with various historical accounts, in order to project a sense of "crisis" in 1963 film culture and argues that a similar disposition attempted to move 1963 Composition. Explored through the lens of the year 1963, the author focuses at the work of an iconic filmmaker--Jean Luc Godard--whose work first found widespread critical acclaim in the early 1960s, and especially in 1963. The author is drawn to the works of French New Wave filmmakers, such as Godard, because of their (past) attempts to generate the new even as they clearly paid homage to the classic, to the established and beloved works that shaped their discourse community and redefined how they think about (film) texts. (Contains 10 notes.)