The 400 Blows

  • Movie News

The Glory of Blaze: Ethan Hawke on His Restless Spirit, Coming Full Circle and His New Country Music Movie

Cool, cocky and complex, Ethan Hawke sits down with me at a breakfast table in the Boerum Hill section of…

6 years ago
  • Directing

We the Animals Director Jeremiah Zagar Discovered His First Narrative Feature in a Bookstore and Shot it on 16mm

Walking through SoHo’s McNally Jackson bookstore back in 2012, director Jeremiah Zagar came across a novel that would dictate the…

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
  • Criterion Crash Course

Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s Ghost World

Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Unsung Film Heroes: Daniel Raim’s Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story Shines a Light on Two Cinematic Artists

Harold and Lillian Michelson are two unrecognized pillars of the American film industry whose contributions to cinema come to light…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

No Risk of Cliché: The Unorthodox Methods of Director Albert Serra Pay Off in The Death of Louis XIV

The contrast between absolute power and total impotence is the thematic core of Albert Serra’s latest portrait, The Death of…

7 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