Richard Linklater is back for his second movie this year, with “Nouvelle Vague” now on Netflix. The film, shot in black-and-white with French dialogue, details the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s ...

Any time a notable figure of the French New Wave is introduced in Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague,” we’re treated to a momentary straight-on shot of them, with a nameplate — Claude Chabrol, ...

A director who makes what is considered one of the best films of the year is fortunate. But what do you say when a director has two remarkable films being released not just in the same year, but in ...

It is that time of year again when the film world looks toward France for one of the most prestigious and often contrarian signals of cinematic excellence.

From taking French lessons to chopping off her hair, the 30-year-old star dove head-first into playing a French New Wave icon.

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The Cannes premiere, which opens theatrically on October 31, is one of two awards contenders Linklater directed this season. The film, which was shot entirely in Paris with a French crew, is a love ...

The Godard that matters now, in this wreckage-strewn age of algorithmic filmmaking, is the one who dragged politics into the ...

Classic movies like North by Northwest, The 400 Blows, and Some Like It Hot rank among the very best from the year 1959, and ...

Previous surveys of the French New Wave have tended to concentrate on the five young critic-directors who emerged from Les Cahiers du Cinema. This approach isolated these filmmakers from the diverse ...

Any time a notable figure of the French New Wave is introduced in Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague,” we’re treated to a momentary straight-on shot of them, with a nameplate — Claude Chabrol, ...