The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.Femmes femmes“Post New Wave” has mutated into a catch-all term that not only accounts for French directors whose output began to crest in the 1970s and beyond, but also for those who may have operated adjacently, or even on the fringes of the five-pronged Nouvelle Vague. Belabored attempts to identify a newly-minted movement in French cinema and subsequently foist it upon a sect of filmmakers typically buckle under closer scrutiny. The more one burrows and subdivides this unwieldy categorization, the more the examples only grow more far-flung, resisting the very grouping that collected them side by side in the first place.Although not a direct predecessor of André Bazin and his acolytes, Diagonale et Co., the production company founded by one-time Cahiers du cinéma critic and director Paul Vecchiali, exists...
- 12/18/2021
- MUBI
April 13-18
Fifty years after Jean-Luc Godard, Serge Bozon and the .young turks. of Cahiers du cinéma resolved that the best way to criticize movies was to make their own films. The result was the creation of another exciting .new wave. of critic-filmmakers, hailing from the iconoclastic film magazine La lettre du cinéma(1997-2005), boldly storming the gates of the French film establishment.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center brings writer, director, actor and DJ, Serge Bozon to New York to present this first major North American survey of films by the Lettre du cinéma circle as well as to curate and present a series of screenings of rarities (along with Anthology Film Archives) that have influenced his work. Also introducing and discussing their films will be his fellow filmmakers, Jean-Charles Fitoussi and Aurélia Georges. And if that weren.t enough, Bozon will also put his DJ skills on display,...
Fifty years after Jean-Luc Godard, Serge Bozon and the .young turks. of Cahiers du cinéma resolved that the best way to criticize movies was to make their own films. The result was the creation of another exciting .new wave. of critic-filmmakers, hailing from the iconoclastic film magazine La lettre du cinéma(1997-2005), boldly storming the gates of the French film establishment.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center brings writer, director, actor and DJ, Serge Bozon to New York to present this first major North American survey of films by the Lettre du cinéma circle as well as to curate and present a series of screenings of rarities (along with Anthology Film Archives) that have influenced his work. Also introducing and discussing their films will be his fellow filmmakers, Jean-Charles Fitoussi and Aurélia Georges. And if that weren.t enough, Bozon will also put his DJ skills on display,...
- 3/15/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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