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French New Wave

movie review Dec. 17, 2023

Alphaville ForeverJean-Luc Godard’s wildly influential 1965 film is restored and back in theaters. There’s still no other movie like it.

By Bilge Ebiri
rip Sept. 13, 2022

Jean-Luc Godard, Father of French New Wave, Dead at 91The Breathless and Goodbye to Language director died by assisted suicide at home in Switzerland.

By Rebecca Alter

drive me back to my shack Dec. 10, 2021

New York’s Underworld Is World ClassLooking back at Samuel Fuller’s 1953 film Pickup on South Street, which has the best NYC-centric opening sequence in film history.

By Mark Jacobson
obits Sept. 6, 2021

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Icon of the French New Wave, Dead at 88He starred in Godard’s Breathless.

By Charu Sinha
bad vacations May 6, 2021

We’re Lucky Melvin Van Peebles’s The Story of a Three Day Pass Got Made at AllThe New Wave classic still carries its sting of racial melancholy and calls for us to rethink institutional validation.

By Yasmina Price
obits Dec. 15, 2019

Anna Karina, Legend of the French New Wave, Dead at 79She was Jean-Luc Godard’s muse.

By Devon Ivie
obits Sept. 12, 2010

French Director Claude Chabrol Dies in ParisNicolas Sarkozy said Chabrol “took the finesse of his social depictions from Balzac.”

By Mike Vilensky