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 ...

Agnès Varda, a groundbreaking French filmmaker who was closely associated with the New Wave — although her re-imagining of filmmaking conventions actually predated the work of Jean-Luc Godard, ...

A precursor and inspiration for filmmakers from the French New Wave to Arthur Penn, Gun Crazy plays in New York on April 14 and 19. The film’s appeal is mostly thanks to its breathtaking ...

Jean-Luc Godard is Bugs Bunny in “Nouvelle Vague,” cigarette in mouth in lieu of a carrot, sliding into chairs and wielding the word “insouciant” like a scepter. Newcomer Guillaume Marbeck plays the ...

Any black-and-white movie about the making of a French New Wave film doesn't attract much commercial interest, which explains why Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater's loose account of the making of ...

“I've always just kind of rolled my eyes at most ‘important’ historical films,” said Linklater. “It's like they're living in a period piece, stepping out of a painting or a sculpture or something.” ...