The film drips with tension ... L’Atalante is his best work. This French New Wave Opera is an unlikely masterpiece. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg follows two star-crossed lovers in the city ...

La Nouvelle Vague exploded onto the scene with vibrant and innovative films that changed cinema forever.

belying the notion that inspiration for the New Wave came solely from within the Hollywood studio system. The Cahiers graduates are thus situated within a wider, richer portrait of French history and ...

Few film movements in history have been as influential—or as fondly remembered—as the French New Wave of the 1950s and 1960s.

Japanese one sheet by Hisamitsu Hoguchi for Les Quatre cents coups, 1959 German one sheet by Hans Hillmann for Une Femme est une femme, 1961 The book rightfully points out that while the New Wave ...

Anna Karina, an icon of French New Wave cinema, has died at the age of ... He wanted to cast her in his first and most famous film Breathless, Karina recalled years later, but she turned him ...