Orfeu

"...when setting out to make 1999's Orfeu. That co-operative “new wave” movement sought to free Brazilian cinema from foreign..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantasia Review: Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin

Inside the mind and art of France's genius of decay

"...looks at the career of the master of the French fantastique, whose work didn't blur the line between terror..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What Color Is Your Parapluie?

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

"...Cherbourg (or Les Parapluies de Cherbourg as the 1964 French film is known in its homeland). These faces he..."

July 19, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...cab driver who believes it’s his duty to rid New York City of riff-raff. Though a certain quote steals..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Invader

Chicago-set horror from the director of Offseason.

"...breakthrough, he's played around with wildly varying styles (the French New Wave in Darling, Sixties exploitation in Psychopaths, Seventies..."

March 15, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Joyland

Tragedy in Lahore as wants and needs are sacrificed for propriety

"...standing up to them is a lie about his new job: He's not, as he tells them, the manager..."

May 5, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Souvenir Part II

Second part of Joanna Hogg's chronicle of loss

"...the bright young things of the time), into figure-hugging post-New Romantic silks with the odd angular slash. Those decisions..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Inheritance

Legacies in the Black community through a French New Wave lens

"...change. The Inheritance borrows a lot from Godard and French New Wave cinema: from its abrupt cuts to its..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Chronicle Recommends: Vive la France!

In honor of New French Cinema Week, we go Gallic!

"...So, in honor of AFS Cinema’s New French Cinema Week (read more about that here), the..."

April 22, 2019 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Dial Code Santa Claus Is This Year's Christmas Surprise

You better watch out for this Pere Noël

"...released in 1990 as 36.15 Code Père Noël, the French action-thriller has as many international pseudonyms as Jolly Old..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lambert & Stamp

Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp were two would-be filmmakers who wound up managing the Who

"...and Chris Stamp, two would-be filmmakers besotted by the French New Wave who, in postwar London, struck upon the..."

May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

From the Vaults: Angry Old Man

Before he was in 'Quartet,' Tom Courtenay was part of a much bigger club

"...In this week’s new release Quartet, Tom Courtenay plays a retired opera singer..."

Jan. 26, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Ghosts Are Good Company

AFS Essential Series: The Third Wave: Contemporary German Cinema

"...the long walk to the train station and her new life, that her old life won't be leaving her..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Two From Truffaut

Criterion's 'Shoot the Piano Player' and 'Jules and Jim'

"...Criterion, $39.95 Two of the French New Wave's most enduring classics, courtesy of writer/director François..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Tout Va Bien

Jane Fonda is a fixture in the American imagination – and as it turns out, the French imagination, too

"...Exercise video queen. Scion of Hollywood acting dynasty. Feminist. French director's wife (and ménage à trois companion). Leftie California..."

May 27, 2005 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Manson Family

Shot over the course of 10 years, underground filmmkaker Jim Van Bebber tells the story we all think we know. This time, however, the story graphically unfolds from the perspective of Charles Manson.

"...an auteur as any of the filmmakers in the French New Wave, albeit with a far more vicious and..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Gleaners and I

"...harvest is finished -- is a freedom protected under French constitutional law. Everyone Agnès Varda speaks with in her..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The 400 Blows

Truffaut’s first and perhaps most affecting feature, The 400 Blows, tells the story of a young boy and his petty crimes and mischief. The freeze frame that concludes the movie is one of the most quoted images in the history of cinema.

"...of the films that announced the arrival of the French New Wave. Still perhaps Truffaut’s most affecting film, The..."

Nov. 4, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Of Antidotes and Elixirs

The Dobie begins a one-week run of Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast on Dec. 20.

"...French filmmaker and author Jean Cocteau once said, "Victor Hugo..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Frontier Television

"...international boundaries in these two short narratives -- one French, one American -- that focus on ill-fated men who..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Screens Feature

The Cinema of Jean Rollin

"...all manner of workers, and the vanguards of the French New Wave (Godard, Truffaut, etc.) organized a general strike..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

Wintry Mix

The holiday film forecast

"...Fat Girl ... Controversial French director Catherine Breillat(Romance) puts to film the traumas of..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Ones to Watch

A new year, a new batch of filmmakers

"...How do you see a wave before it breaks? This question has vexed film historians..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

The Lovers & The Fire Within

Louis Malle, lobbing smart bombs

"...emergence of Godard and Truffaut, with the revolution of French New Wave cinema, but Malle was never truly a..."

June 13, 2008 Screens Review by John Davidson

The San Francisco Sound

Celebrating the San Francisco Sound, 1965-1970, if not Rhino Records anthology thereof

"...the then-current San Francisco Sound for my high school newspaper. Racking my brain, listening to records as well as..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Music Feature by Louis Black

Vivre Sa Vie

The generous, forgiving humanity of Godard's third film still beats through

"...prostitution. It's no Belle de Jour, forsaking that fellow French import's glamorous gangsterdom for a grittier depiction, but it's..."

May 14, 2010 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

'Night and the City' and 'Thieves Highway'

The artistic tragedy of Jules Dassin's being blacklisted in Hollywood after 1949's swiftly compelling 'Thieves' Highway' is leavened somewhat by the fact that the 94-year-old director is still around to partake in the contemporary celebration of his dashing noir oeuvre

"...the contemporary celebration of his dashing noir oeuvre. Two new Criterion interviews, as well as a 1972 French television..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Manchurian Candidate, The Train, Seconds

"...whole (and we do). It's no wonder that the French New Wave embraced this movie as they did...."

Oct. 22, 1999 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

All Shades of Black

How do you define film noir?

"...Film noir, which originated with French film writers, translates as quite literally "black film." It..."

July 9, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Hiroshima Mon Amour

When it comes to Alain Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour, "such a film about the darker side of love, much like the darker side of war, should not be ignored," writes Eli Kooris.

"...one another amid a delicate snowfall of ash. Acclaimed French documentarian Alain Resnais made his first exploration into the..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Screens Review by Eli Kooris

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