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New Wave Cinema Around The World
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UPDATED 25 MARCH 2012.

Features & Site News

• The BFI's Passport to Cinema series upcoming showings include (London, UK): Hiroshima Mon Amour (21st April) and introduced by Richard Combs (16th Apr)
• Jean-Luc Godard 1969 - present, expanded biography now live!

Worldwide News

• Michel Duchaussoy, star of Alain Jessua's Jeu de massacre (1967) and Claude Chabrol's Que la bête meure (1968), has died at the age of 73.

• Louis Malle's final film Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) released by Criterion on DVD and Blu-Ray.

• Whatculture! Website runs down their list of the 5 Best Films of Jean-Pierre Melville

• Time Magazine's Richard Corliss votes Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinema the Best DVD of the Year

• Top critics Kent Jones and Jonathan Rosenbaum discuss Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard

• Richard Brody of The New Yorker explains why the French New Wave is still big news in France

• Richard Williams of the Guardian explains why Alphaville is his favourite film

• Martin Scorcese includes The 400 Blows in his list of 11 favourite family films

• LIFE magazine publishes amazing online photographic gallery of French New Wave stars

• Richard Brody, film critic at the New Yorker, discusses the ongoing influence of Cahiers du Cinema

• Francois Truffaut's last interview reprinted in The New Yorker

North America

• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrates the French New Wave. (Los Angeles, CA. 23 Mar - 24 Jun 2012)

• Historian wants a statue of Jean Seberg in her home town (Marshalltown, IA)

• Chicago's Doc Films cinema will be celebrating 'the Best of British Cinema After the New Wave' every Sunday through March (Chicago, IL. Jan - Mar 2012)

Europe

• The Mille Et Une Foret (And A Thousand Forests) season at Le Forum Des Images in Paris will include screenings of
  • Straub & Huillet's Ces rencontres avec eux
  • Barbet Schroeder's La Vallee
  • Eric Rohmer's Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon
  • Werner Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God
  • Terence Malick's The New World

  (Paris, France. March - April 2012)

• The Arsenal Cinema in Berlin's "A Magical History Tour: Montage" season (a film season exploring the art of montage in films) will be showing Chris Marker's Sans Soleil and Godard's Vivre Sa Vie. (Berlin, Germany. Mar - April 2012)

• Jean-Paul Belmondo's Paris apartment burgled (Paris, France)

• Une année studieuse (A Studious Year), a new novel by Anne Wiazemsky, goes over her relationship with Jean-Luc Godard (Franc
  

Asia

• An exhibition of Agnes Varda's photographs, installations and films opens in Beijing (Beijing, China. 30 Mar - 6 May)

• Werner Herzog advised young filmmakers to be self-sufficient at the Dubai International Film Festival where he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award (Dubai, UAE)

• As part of their celebration of German Cinema, films by New German Cinema legends Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders will be shown at the Pune International Film Festival (Pune, India. Jan 12-19 2012)

South America

• A major overview of the work of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillot plays at the Bank of Brazil Cultural Center in January (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jan 2012)

• Jacques Rivette's La Religieuse and Jean-Luc Godard's Une femme est une femme play at Brazil's Campinas cinema in January (Campinas, Brazil. Jan 2012)

• Jacques Demy's Donkey Skin playing at the Estação Sesc Laura Alvim (Ipanema, Brazil. Jan 2012)

• Former Cahiers du Cinema editor and Truffaut biographer Antoine du Baecque visits Rio de Janiero to talk about Two In the Wave (Brazil)

Australia & New Zealand

• Francois Truffaur's The 400 Blows will be playing at the Hobart Film Society in Hobart (Hobart, Australia. August 2012)

Africa

• Wes Felton writes about the origins of African cinema and its link to the French New Wave on Senses of Cinema