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La Nouvelle Vague - Essential Titles

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202

6.9

6.8

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)

coroner's rating:

1221

8.4

8.1

The 400 Blows (1959)

coroner's rating:

7.4

7.2

Adieu Philippine (1962)

coroner's rating:

658

7.3

Alphaville (1965)

coroner's rating:

554

7.7

Band of Outsiders (1964)

coroner's rating:

7.4

7.1

Le Beau Serge (1958) (1958)

coroner's rating:

7.9

7.4

Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)

coroner's rating:

1180

7.7

Breathless (1960) (1960)

coroner's rating:

159

7.5

7.3

The Butcher (1970)

coroner's rating:

234

7.3

Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)

coroner's rating:

193

7.2

6.9

The Chinese

coroner's rating:

177

7.8

7.5

Claire's Knee (1970)

coroner's rating:

332

7.8

Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

coroner's rating:

143

7.1

7.3

The Collector (1967)

coroner's rating:

635

7.8

7.4

Contempt (1963)

coroner's rating:

7.7

7.3

Les Cousins (1959)

coroner's rating:

280

7.9

Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

coroner's rating:

164

7.8

The Fire Within (1963)

coroner's rating:

606

8.1

7.9

Hiroshima Mon amour (1959)

coroner's rating:

7.5

7.1

I Love You, I Love You (1968)

coroner's rating:

618

8.3

8.2

La Jetée (1962)

coroner's rating:

811

7.9

7.7

Jules and Jim (1962)

coroner's rating:

452

7.8

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

coroner's rating:

162

7.2

7.5

Lola (1961)

coroner's rating:

7.1

7.3

Mad Love (1969)

coroner's rating:

152

7.2

7.5

A Man and a Woman (1966)

coroner's rating:

363

7.5

Masculin Feminin (1966)

coroner's rating:

210

7.7

The Mother and the Whore (1973)

coroner's rating:

7.3

Muriel, or the Time of Return

coroner's rating:

246

7.9

7.8

My Night at Maud's (1969)

coroner's rating:

7.9

7.4

The Nun

coroner's rating:

7.9

7.5

Out 1 (1971)

6.7

6.8

Paris Belongs to Us

coroner's rating:

837

7.8

7.4

Pierrot le Fou (1965)

coroner's rating:

649

8.1

Le Samourai (1967)

coroner's rating:

334

7.2

7.5

Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

coroner's rating:

7.3

7.2

Sign of the Lion (1962)

coroner's rating:

143

7.5

The Soft Skin (1964)

coroner's rating:

299

7.7

Stolen Kisses (1968)

coroner's rating:

7.3

7.4

The Things of Life (1970)

coroner's rating:

7.4

7.6

This Man Must Die (1969)

coroner's rating:

462

7.6

7.8

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) (1964)

coroner's rating:

7.2

7.4

The Unfaithful Wife (1969)

coroner's rating:

550

7.9

Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

coroner's rating:

7.2

7.3

The War Is Over

coroner's rating:

455

7.4

7.2

Weekend (1967)

coroner's rating:

497

7.8

7.5

A Woman Is a Woman (1961)

coroner's rating:

223

7.6

7.7

The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)

coroner's rating:

324

8.2

8.1

Z (1969)

coroner's rating:

176

7.2

Zazie in the Subway (1960)

coroner's rating:

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From Wikipedia:

The New Wave (French: La Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced (in part) by Italian Neorealism. Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of classical cinematic form and their spirit of youthful iconoclasm. Many also engaged in their work with the social and political upheavals of the era, making their radical experiments with editing, visual style, and narrative part of a general break with the conservative paradigm.

Some of the most prominent pioneers among the group, including Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette, began as critics for the famous film magazine Cahiers du cinéma. Co-founder and theorist André Bazin was a prominent source of influence for the movement. By means of criticism and editorialization, they laid the groundwork for a surge of concepts which was later coined as the auteur theory (or, more correctly, "La politique des auteurs" ("The policy of authors")