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With her large, if rare, grin and high forehead, Liv Ullmann was always the least dreamy of the axiomatic New Waveera actresses - she was no one's Anna Karina or Monica Vitti - and the most discomfitingly fierce.

Slender, dark-haired actress who appeared in several films of the French New Wave, particularly those directed by first husband Jean-Luc Godard.

SEP 12, 2009 - LEAVE IT TO A POSTMODERN PRANKSTER like Godard to insinuate, at first, that what we are watching is filmed reality, and subsequently blow that notion to bits by uncovering the artifice behind it all.

Visiting North Carlton pizzeria Bande a Part, Anna Karina registers her appreciation for the pizza named after her.

"You can fool the movie audience, but not me." I'm the movie audience. I may have been fooled.

Amanda Mae Meyncke , Jul 21, 2009 Jean-Luc Godard completists, rejoice -- your cries have been heard, there is now a definitive version of Made In U.S.A. . Though it was made in 1966, the film hasn't been widely available in the United States due to copyright issues, but this fringe piece of filmic history is now ready to be seen and puzzled over.

THE MOVIE: " Language is the house man lives in. " This is the second time I've seen Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her , and I still am not entirely sure what to do with it.

Be it features or docos, the Melbourne International has the world covered. THERE are treats aplenty on offer at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival.

Made in U.S.A. is one of a pair of confounding, highly stylized Criterion releases from the tail end of Jean-Luc Godard's brilliant run of '60s New Wave classics .

Despite being based on The Jugger , the thick piece of pulp written by the late, great Donald E. Westlake under his Richard Stark pseudonym, Jean-Luc Godard's Made in U.S.A. is more of a whatsit than a whodunit.

Post to del.icio.us E-mail this to a friend Listings for Friday, July 10, through Thursday, July 16, 2009 Capsule by Fred Camper From the Chicago Reader Shot concurrently with 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her , this fractured film essay by Jean-Luc Godard bursts with bright colors, comic-book characters, and seemingly random violence.

Nouvelle Vague: The French New Wave, Then and Now Running July 3 to Aug 22 at Cinematheque Ontario, AGOa TMs Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas W. 416-968-FILM. www.cinemathequeontario.ca May we all be as productive in our advanced age as the old men of the French New Wave.

Pierrot Le Fou, review An immaculately restored print of Godard's Pierrot Le Fou is getting extended play at the BFI as part of their French New Wave season.

Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh made waves when he premiered his latest film, The Girlfriend Experience , at this year's Sundance Film Festival -- not so much due to its subject, a high class call girl, but rather thanks to who plays her: adult film actress Sasha Grey , the 21-year-old award-winning star of countless films we can't mention here.