french new wave

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From Argento to Leone: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani Dissect the Genre Influences of Let the Corpses Tan

As Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani continue to refine the giallo-inflected post-modern aesthetic they first explored in their 2009 debut feature…

6 years ago
  • Directing

French Toast: New Wave Cinema Pioneer Agnès Varda Returns with Fanfare and Perhaps Her Most Accessible Film, Faces, Places

If you're an aspiring moviemaker, don’t bother asking Agnès Varda to dispense advice. Despite an illustrious directing career that spans…

6 years ago
  • Directing

Blow by Blow: How Francois Truffaut and His New Wave Contemporaries Deconstructed Filmmaking

As one of the founding fathers of the French New Wave, Francois Truffaut used cinema to capture “truth 24 times…

6 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned: Claude Lelouch, Cinematic Preacher

In the mid-1960s, Claude Lelouch’s film A Man and a Woman  achieved international success. Openly disliked by the pioneers of…

10 years ago
  • Producing

The MovieMaker Manifesto: A Document for an Oppressed Majority

If French film in the 1950s was a convalescent in a hospice, as Godard and Truffaut claimed, the Nouvelle Vague…

11 years ago
  • Interviews

The Tide Turns for Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda is a legendary French director and so-called “grandmother of the French New Wave;” a woman whose friendship has…

14 years ago
  • Directing

The French New Wave Revisited: Today’s Moviemakers Reflect on the Old Guard of Innovators

Some 40-plus years ago a gifted band of moviemakers—celebrated the world over as the French 'New Wave'—were playfully reinventing the…

22 years ago