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Trilogy: New Wave is an upcoming surf documentary that follows three of the world's top surfers, Griffin Colapinto, Seth Moniz, and Ethan Ewing, as they embark on a thrilling eight-trip adventure to t
- L’ Atalante
- Shoot The Piano Player
- Le Boucher
- Jules et Jim
- Le Fou Follet
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- Elevator to The Gallows
- The Mother & The Whore
- Eyes Without A Face
- Au Hasard Balthazar
Starting off with a caveat: Jean Vigo’s 1934 film pre-dates the Nouvelle Vague by several decades, but the impact of this previously underseen work’s resurgence and co-incidental meetings with main New Wave players like Jean-Luc Goddard and Francois Truffaut qualifies its place here because it’s a key reason why this list even exists. There are cou...
Francois Truffaut’s follow-up to the much acclaimed ‘The 400 Blows’, ‘Shoot the Piano Player’ takes a uniquely passive approach to crime cinema- settling it comfortably into the liquid cool of Nouvelle Vague-era Paris and allowing the story to unfurl at its own compelling pace. It develops the keen ambition present in his debut whilst not taking it...
Cladue Chabrol’s 1970 reaction to the quick edits and breathless storytelling of the early Nouvelle Vague, ‘Le Boucher’ follows a well-liked school ma’am who engages in a platonic relationship with the local butcher and struggles with her suspicions as the women of the town begin to turn up dead. It’s a refreshingly reflexive and patient character-...
Truffaut’s finest achievement, ‘Jules et Jim’ tracks through the complex relationship of two male friends and a woman that both divides and unites them as time goes on. The premise itself is realized to superb effect with love struggling through the ages despite disagreements, allowing its audience to indulge in a rare look at people’s growth that ...
Emerging in the same year as ‘Jules et Jim’, ‘The Fire Within’ marks Louis Malle’s first slot on this list with a serious examination of a man teetering on the precipice of suicide. Addicted to the booze and unconscionably lonely, it draws comparisons to Bresson’s ‘Pickpocket’ of 1959, which was in hot competition for this place. Malle’s picture su...
Jacques Demy’s films have proven their endurance recently with a key inspiration for Damien Chazelle’s ‘La La Land‘, some even taking note of the near-plagiaristic tendencies the young American talent exacted in his tribute to movie musicals from around the world. Ignoring the muddy politics of the matter, to love ‘La La Land’ is to surely find som...
The other Louis Malle flick, ‘Elevator to the Gallows’ is perhaps most notable (or ironically shoved to the side) for pre-dating many of the ideas found in Godard’s ‘Breathless’. Unlike the funhouse farce who directed that film, however, Malle’s own debut here is one represented by unprecedented professionalism and an attentive understanding of wha...
Often deemed the closing statement of the Nouvelle Vague, Jean Eustache’s 1973 film is also remarked as one of the most important and essential hard-to-find movies ever made. Seeking it out and enduring its 200-minute runtime is richly rewarded with a meditation on romantic relationships and the nature of human sexuality that remains both alluring ...
Georges Franju made a documentary after the Second World War shocking in its subject and profoundly horrifying in its implication with 1949’s ‘Blood of the Beasts’. It’s an important piece to consider, in the context of the same fears of the flesh that permeate his landmark 1960 film ‘Eyes Without a Face’. It’s credited as lending a respectable sen...
Questionably, Nouvelle Vague, considering Bresson’s long-established style, ‘Balthazar’ is nonetheless unique for its protagonist being a donkey and involved with the movement through Goddard volunteering to cut its trailer. The continuing evolution of Robert Bresson’s method, in conjunction with an explosion of creativity brought on by Breathless,...
The New Wave is often considered one of the most influential movements in the history of cinema. The term was first used by a group of French film critics and cinephiles associated with the magazine Cahiers du cinéma in the late 1950s and 1960s. These critics rejected the Tradition de qualité ("Tradition of Quality") of mainstream French ...
1. Breathless. 1960 1h 30m Not Rated. 7.7 (89K) Rate. A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy. Director Jean-Luc Godard Stars Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean Seberg Van Doude.
Jan 8, 2024 · The French New Wave was roughly between 1958 and 1964, with scattered titles adding to this movement until around 1973. This art came out of some hard times. Shortly after World War II, France was incredibly poor and tended to fall back on the old popular pre-war traditions. But as new artists emerged, they were broke.
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The life and death of Jean Seberg. Read our new in-depth biography of the star of Breathless. New Wave Classic 2: Le Beau Serge. images/Front_LeBeauSerge.jpg. Claude Chabrol's Le Beau Serge is the second in our comprehensive New Wave Classics series. Read the in-depth review.
