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I think it's more difficult with Godard. Everyone can see what Felliniesque or Hichcockian or Bergmanesque film looks like. With Godard I'd say it's more about a quite playful attitude to things, a knowingness, an ironic and self referential playing around with genre. Not saying Godard invented any of those things but he unified them and turned them into a kind of attitude. I don't think he's ever consciously attempted to make a homage to Godard but I definitely think he absorbed that attitude. Saying that I do think Annie Hall is explicitly Godardian in its self-conscious rule-breaking, and even his crime-comedies, the way he messes around with genre, seems like a nod to the spirit at least of films like Bande a Part.
So I was probably wrong in saying stylistically, but in terms of attitude I'd say definitely.
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