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May 26, 2023 · The legacy of the French New Wave isn’t finished yet. This year’s Cannes Classics section included a delightful peek at an unfinished Godard pitch for a feature project he was developing at...
Sep 29, 2016 · The 400 Blows ended up winning Truffaut the Best Director prize at Cannes, effectively launching his filmmaking career, making a star out of 14-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud, and kicking off an ...
- A.A. Dowd
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May 11, 2022 · A Personal Look Back at the Cannes Film Festival as It Celebrates 75 Years of Championing World Cinema. Not long after attending my first Cannes Film Festival almost 35 years ago, I was still ...
- Steven Gaydos
May 13, 2024 · Film at one stage transformed culture. Today, XR is the new wave of storytelling. It’s significant that Cannes is putting its clout behind the medium, and while it’s not the first time XR has...
Nov 8, 2023 · Course Description. When 27-year-old François Truffaut walked the red carpet with his 14-year-old lead actor Jean-Pierre Léaud at the 1959 Cannes Festival for his first film, 400 Blows, the world took note. Journalists and critics heralded nothing less than a revolution in film-making.
The New Wave ( French: Nouvelle Vague, French pronunciation: [nuvɛl vaɡ] ), also called the French New Wave, is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of iconoclasm.
Oct 28, 2020 · Plot took a backseat in the works of French New Wave auteurs because they felt that literary narrative was of little importance in the visual medium of cinema. Through their editing, they sought to constantly remind the audience that film a sequence of images floating around in their consciousness. This spirit of improvisation was also visible ...
