Previous surveys of the French New Wave have tended to concentrate on the five young critic-directors who emerged ... which only makes this a more essential acquisition for the hungry Francophile film ...

His children said in a statement to France’s AFP news agency that he ... one of the last vestiges of French New Wave cinema.

Film director Jean-Luc Godard, who spearheaded the revolutionary French New Wave of cinema, has died at 91. Godard burst onto the scene with 1960's À bout de souffle (Breathless), which started a ...