The American market offers a rich though gap-filled selection of DVDs of films by Godard and Truffaut. There haven’t been any significant new Truffaut issues for a while (the most recent was the 2006 ...

Saturday May 18. The 1968 Cannes Film Festival was about to enter its second week when a press conference was called for 10AM in the Jean Cocteau Theater at the old Palais Croisette. Just a few yards ...

An anniversary present for the New Wave — tied to the upcoming 50th-birthday screenings of Breathless — Two in the Wave gives the gift of received wisdom as it recounts the erstwhile friendship of ...

Before there was Occupy Wall Street or Nuit Debout, there was Paris, 1968. In a revolutionary year —think the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Tet Offensive in Vietnam — May was a particularly ...

Director Emmanuel Laurent has produced a documentary, "Two in the Wave," focusing on the relationship between the two dominant auteurs of the French New Wave, Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. By ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Jean-Paul Belmondo was one of the most famous actors in the world, but he never worked in Hollywood.

In the wake of 'Breathless,' New Waves that sprang up across the planet, from Brazil to Czechoslovakia to Japan, owed a major debt to him, as did generations of American directors, including Scorsese, ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Writing in the winter of 1963-64, when he had six feature films under his belt but was still contributing to the famed French film magazine Cahiers du Cinema, Jean-Luc ...

Jean-Luc Godard, the European filmmaker and cinematic rule-breaker regarded as one of the most influential, uncompromising and at times befuddling artists of his era, once declaring “a film should ...