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Netflix secures record-breaking deal for Richard Linklater’s divisive Nouvelle Vague

The film is a retelling of the making of the French classic ‘Breathless’

The Independent UK

Of course a Breathless tribute charmed Cannes – this is a festival that loves itself

INSIDE FILM: Cannes organisers adore a Cannes shout-out in the films they programme, with the latest being ‘Nouvelle Vague’, Richard Linklater’s jaunty dramatisation of the making of a French classic. But it’s no empty pastiche, argues Xan Brooks

The Independent UK

The Boys by Leo Robson review – a likeable debut with aimless charm

The critic turned author’s witty, eccentric novel follows a Londoner reading Susan Sontag and looking for love

The Guardian - UK

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Postcard from Cannes #3: Surfing a wave of French cinematic nostalgia

American director Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague and Sylvain Chomet’s Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol – both of which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival at the weekend – prove that the art of making cinema is an endless source of inspiration.

Radio France Internationale

Richard Linklater's ode to the French New Wave enchants Cannes

When Richard Linklater first started thinking about making a film about the French New Wave, he figured he’d show it all everywhere except one place: France

The Independent UK

Only known script of Jean-Luc Godard’s New Wave classic 'Breathless' to be auctioned

The 70-page manuscript came to light for the first time in more than 60 years and is estimated at between €400,000 and €600,000.

Euronews

Only known manuscript of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave classic to go on auction

The film helped usher in the highly influential French New Wave movement

The Independent UK

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The Substance, Furiosa and new White Lotus: what’s new to streaming in Australia in February

Plus Robert De Niro’s first TV show, a Netflix drama about disgraced wellness influencer Belle Gibson and the final season of The Newsreader

The Guardian - AU

From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film-makers

The music star was also an electrifying screen presence, from The Girl on a Motorcycle to Marie Antoinette

The Guardian - US

Covid was supposed to kill cinema – but did lockdown and gen Z save cinephilia?

Sites such as film discovery platform Letterboxd promote a new way of film-viewing, eschewing sneering gatekeepers for a more open-minded and eclectic experience

The Guardian - UK

Martial Solal obituary

French jazz pianist who loved to improvise and wrote the score for Jean-Luc Godard’s film A Bout de Souffle

The Guardian - UK

30 years ago, Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction shook Hollywood and redefined ‘cool’ cinema

What might be the most seismic moment in American cinema? Film “speaking” for the first time in The Jazz Singer? Dorothy entering the Land of Oz? That menacing shark that in 1975 invented the summer blockbuster?

The Conversation

Feel like a movie? The top 50 films of all time according to Marcio Kogan

Marcio Kogan's top 50 films of all time; the architect taps into his passion for the moving image and shares with us his recommendations

Wallpaper

French film star Alain Delon dies aged 88

Celebrated actor and star of Plein Soleil and Le Samouraï has died, his children have said

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Streaming: the best films set in Paris

The Olympic host city is one of cinema’s favourite places, whether real or romanticised, in films ranging from Breathless to Ratatouille and La Haine

Evening Standard

Blackpink’s Jennie Kim walks her first catwalk for Jacquemus as Dua Lipa sits front row

The Blackpink band member earned her fashion stripes as she took to Jacquemus’ Capri catwalk

Total Film

35 must-see movie directors

The ultimate collection of legends who ever sat behind a camera

The Guardian - UK

Breathless goodbye: the race to finish Jean-Luc Godard’s last film, one day before he died

The cinematic legend died the way he lived – in a blaze of inscrutable, impossible film-making. We meet the team who helped shoot the final scene of his swansong just before his death by assisted suicide

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Scénarios review – Jean-Luc Godard collage is his final love letter to cinema

Completed just before his assisted death, the French New Wave master director talks through his ideas as illustrated in his hand-drawn scrapbook

The Guardian - US

Cannes to premiere Jean-Luc Godard film finished the day before he died

The director’s 18-minute film Scénarios will premiere at this year’s Cannes film festival accompanied by his 34-minute introduction

The Guardian - UK

Bette Gordon: ‘I realised: Oh my God, it’s a porn theatre! I was delighted’

The New York director’s 1983 film Variety used a real ‘adult’ cinema to turn around the male gaze. On its re-release, she explains her lifelong drive to push boundaries

The Guardian - UK

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World review – giddy Romanian experiment

Freewheeling essay-movie-slash-black-comedy collage takes swipes from all angles at modern life

The Guardian - UK

Jane Birkin: a tremendous screen presence with a gift for creative collaboration

Birkin made a sensational impact in Blow-Up, and went on to become a classy performer for a number of major French directors – notably Godard and Agnès Varda

The Conversation

Wes Anderson has an obsessive, systematic repetition of stylistic choices. He’s perfect for this TikTok meme

Iconoclastic film director Wes Anderson says of his films:

The Conversation

The full credit list featured at the beginning of Tár is a nod to the hidden hierarchies of labour in screen production

In a recent interview on her portrayal of a renowned (fictional) female conductor, the autocratic maestro Lydia Tár, Cate Blanchett noted ways in which orchestral music-making is not a democratic enterprise. Neither is film-making.

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