French Nouvelle Vague (French New Wave)

[Maxwinner]

read more about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_New_Wave


what films have you seen?

I particularly like Godard's films, like Breathless. The French New Wave had an enormous impact on world cinema. Particularly the 60s new hollywood was influenced by the way these new french filmmakers made movies.

 

[Sandman138]

Breathless
The 400 Blows
Bed And Board
Hiroshima Mon Amour (BEST FILM EVER!!!)
6 In Paris
Day For Night
My Life To Live
Alphaville
A Band Of Outsiders
Stolen Kisses
Jules And Jim
The Girl at the Monceau Bakery
The Mischeif Makers
Antione And Colette

 

[Maxwinner]

Bande apart rox

 

[Sandman138]

My favorite is My Life To Live and the stuff he did for Six In Paris. I felt Band A Part got a little too convoluted towards the end. Alphaville is another great Goddard flick.

 

[Sandman138]

bump it up biznatches. Seriously, this is one of the only decent thread topics on this whole site, let us get some crazy ass debate going on.

 

[Maxwinner]

Bump - o

 

[The Storm]

Bande apart rox

, saw it in a lecture a couple of weeks ago. The dance scene was the influence for Uma & John's dance scene in Pulp Fiction, Tarantino gave them the clip to watch. Its also why his production company is called Band Apart.

 

[Maxwinner]

yes, when i heard about it a couple a months ago i rushed to my local video store and rented it

 

[Sandman138]

The dance scene is definatly the high point of the movie. Goddard's use of narration in that film is a really good example of auter theory in action. The way he makes the movie read like a book is one of the reasons why Goddard is one of my favorite directors.

 

[Sandman138]

BUMP

Dammit people! This thread needs more posts. Would a question help? Okay, here: do you think the auteur theory has bettered filmmaking or hurt it?

 

[The Storm]

The dance scene is definatly the high point of the movie. Goddard's use of narration in that film is a really good example of auter theory in action. The way he makes the movie read like a book is one of the reasons why Goddard is one of my favorite directors.

. Great use of narration in Band Apart. Another great feature of this film is the moment of silence. What other film has allowed total silence for so long? Most times it used for slo-mo scenes but this was an ingenious use of silence.

 

[Maxwinner]

Bump

 

[Sandman138]

Anyone here seen Night and Fog by Resnais? I've been dying to see it, but I still haven't had the chance.

 

[Maxwinner]

Haven't seen it

 

[JLBats]

Breathless is a really cool movie. I've also seen some slightly pre-New Wave stuff that was INCREDIBLY brilliant, like Elevator to the Gallows, with a score by Miles Davis. Great little film.