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David A Cook called 1959 the annus mirabilis for the French New Wave. The film historian's viewpoint has proved increasingly correct today what with the ongoing golden jubilee celebrations of the most influential iconoclastic movement in the history of cinema.

BY HO YI Spot X Taipei Film House is wrapping up its annual POP Cinema program with highly anticipated retrospectives on Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville, Godard s partner both in life and work and a feminist director in her own right.

Good morning. Today is the 337th day of the year. On this day in 1947, Tennessee Williamsa TM drama A Streetcar Named Desire premiered on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.

Main French director born December 3, 1930, Paris, France French film director who came to prominence with the New Wave group in France during the late 1950s and the '60s. Godard spent his formative years on the Swiss side of Lake Geneva, where his father directed a clinic.

Korean helmer Yang Ik-june's "Breathless" won the grand prize and audience award at the 10th Tokyo Filmex, which closed on Sunday.

The Berlin International Film Festival will mark its 60th anniversary with a best-of Retrospective of 40 films cherry-picked from Berlin Festivals of the last six decades.

The Berlin Film Festival, which celebrates its 60th anniversary in February, will shine a spotlight on some of its most memorable and pioneering films in a 40-pic retrospective under the heading Play it Again! The fest, which runs Feb.

The director was Jean-Pierre Melville , known for his films about gangsters and the Resistance.

"I don't know why, but I'm picking up the scent of death." - Ferdinand The strength of Criterion's previous release of Godard's pulp crime masterpiece makes the decision to upgrade to Blu-ray a tough one&#8212until you see the image transfer, that is, and head to eBay to sell your old copy.

DVD Talk Collector Series French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou is something of a landmark work, being at once a retrospective and a recapitulation of characters and themes present in some of the filmmaker's early movies - it's sort of like Breathless in reverse - and made just before Godard's move toward a more "radical cinema" ...

This writer was ready to give Jean-Luc Godard another chance with Pierrot le fou on Blu-ray Disc.

Our review of Pierrot Le Fou: Criterion Collection , published February 19th, 2008, is also available.

The silence slowly wafts over a group of patient art seekers waiting for gallery doors to swing open.

Jamie Adams, Jeanniebigbed , 2009, oil on linen. Featured Review: Exposure 12: Implied Narratives: Paintings by Jamie Adams, Bill Kreplin and Kit Keith For this year's installment of the annual "Exposure" series, which typically highlights new and notable St.

French star's once quiet private life takes unexpected twist with new-found love for former Playboy model 43 years his junior Monday, 07 September 2009 With his craggy face and cigarette dangling from his lips, he was once known as the French Bogart a ' one of France's best loved film stars adored for his 1960s art-house performances and a string ...

Interesting filmmakers often stretch time in unusual ways. Even in his first film, the uber-cool romantic caper Breathless , Jean-Luc Godard told a story that skittered along like a needle skipping over an LP, then suddenly stopped to spend 30 minutes watching a couple hanging around idly in an apartment, in real time.

St. Louis has an Italian film festival, a Jewish film festival, a gay-and-lesbian film festival, even a 48-hour festival.

Well, we always have something to say, but there's a fair number of interesting articles that come out each day which don't really require much comment to be fully comprehensible on their own.

Surf this New Wave One of the most potent movements in movie history was the French New Wave.

French film legend Jean-Paul Belmondo has received death threats, his ex-wife told AFP on Friday, explaining why she refused to allow their daughter to spend her holiday with him.