Tag: french new wave
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Criterion Catch-Up: Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
When I was deciding what film was going to kick this off, I wanted something that was familiar. Sure, I could have gone with the challenge of something like A Brighter Summer Day but in the week of recharging the batteries in the midst of work and health/life stress I needed some comfort, something that…
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Masculin, Féminin (1966)
My Jean-Luc Godard education continues with Masculin, Féminin, his 1966 portrait of the youth culture in Paris in the months leading up to the 1965 presidential election. It’s a flurry of different visual and aural ideas cut together and framed in a off-kilter documentary style whose purpose isn’t anything like a straight narrative, but rather an empathetic…
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Band of Outsiders (1964)
It’s strange, but until watching Band of Outsiders my only exposure to Jean-Luc Godard was Breathless almost eight months earlier. Kind of a long wait between films, especially after the wonderful taste Breathless left in my mouth, but that wait may have made my feelings toward Band of Outsiders a little sweeter than they would have…
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Breathless (1960)
Breathless may not have been the movie to “officially” kick off the French New Wave, but after its release there was little doubt it would be the standard bearer for the movement. Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard based off a treatment by Francois Truffaut, Breathless leaps off the screen and tears into its story…