Fifty years after France's "New Wave" raised a storm at Cannes with Francois Truffaut's iconic arthouse "The 400 Blows", some critics believe the cult school of cinema has stymied French film. The term "new wave" was first coined in 1957 in the nation's press as a general reference to the new generation. But it quickly came to ...

A Girl and a Gun

Sarah Palin, Action Gal.

By Peter Suderman,  September 4, 2008

Filmmaker Jean Luc Godard famously declared that, to do his job, all he needed was "a girl and a gun." On his hunt for a Vice President, John McCain apparently came to the same conclusion. So now we have Sarah Palin ...

It is the first time Anna Karina has made it to South Korea in person, but the actress's image has been deeply ingrained on the local consciousness since the 1960s. The star of such New Wave classics as "Une Femme est une Femme" (A Woman is a Woman), in Busan for Asia's premier film festival, said she was ...

Let us look for links between Jean-Luc Godard and Martin Scorsese. I can think of two off the cuff: that slow, unsettling tracking shot into a fizzing glass of Alka-Seltzer in Taxi Driver, a visual quote from Godard's Masculin Féminin; or the unforgettable opening sequence of Mean Streets, in which Scorsese splices three jump-cuts - in homage ...