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 ...

Brigitte Bardot, the controversial French actress who became one of the most popular screen icons to come out of the French New Wave, has died. She was 91. On Sunday, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation ...

Any time a notable figure of the French New Wave is introduced in Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague,” we’re treated to a momentary straight-on shot of them, with a nameplate — Claude Chabrol, ...

Richard Linklater has developed over decades a distinctive filmmaking style that looks and feels like no other American filmmaker of his time. Linklater's unique voice, confidence, curious mind and ...

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 ...

Christy is a high school basketball champion from a small town in West Virginia when she’s spotted by the boxing manager who introduces her to Martin. It’s her pugnacity on the court that catches his ...

“Nouvelle Vague” may be French New Wave fan service, which works fine for me because I’m a fan of the French New Wave. If you care about film history, chances are you qualify as well. But what about ...

“Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s dramatization of the making, in 1959, of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless,” is a nitpicker’s delight: any viewer who knows anything about Godard’s story can find ...

Any time a notable figure of the French New Wave is introduced in Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague,” we’re treated to a momentary straight-on shot of them, with a nameplate — Claude Chabrol, ...

Any time a notable figure of the French New Wave is introduced in Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague,” we’re treated to a momentary straight-on shot of them, with a nameplate — Claude Chabrol, ...