the French New Wave marked a shift away from mindless tradition and solidified the birth of the director. Though filmmakers took different approaches depending on which bank of the Seine they were ...

French New Wave: See You at the Cinémathèque First, a quick rewind back to post-World War II France. Few U.S. movies could be ...

Previous surveys of the French New Wave have tended to concentrate on the five young critic-directors who emerged from Les Cahiers du Cinema. This approach isolated these filmmakers from the diverse ...

Cahiers du Cinema names best films of 2024, which include Payal Kapadia's 'All We Imagine as Light' and M. Night Shyamalan's ...

This course will introduce students to the aesthetic and theoretical qualities that define the New Wave movement in French cinema, focusing on major directors, performers, and composers associated ...

The French New Wave was more philosophical, wanting audiences to think and ponder, dealing with the very nature and absurdity of existence. Godard's 1966 black-and-white Masculin Féminin ...

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Anna Karina, an icon of French New Wave cinema, has died at the age of 79. The Danish-French actress died in a hospital in Paris after living with cancer, her agent told AFP news agency.