Films Reviews tagged with french new wave
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
A transcendent collaboration between revolutionary artists, the film is a stunning meditation on the essence and power of form and burgeoning sentimentalities of a transforming world of cinema.
Grant Phipps spends...Made in U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard)
Occupying the figurative and literal place between Godard's more engrossing works, the film is an interesting cinematic collage but ultimately a failed expedition into the avant-garde realm for Godard-completists only.
Grant Phipps attempts to annotate...2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
As with many of Godard's brazen mid-late 1960s works, his radical ideologies and directing methods veer into the convoluted and paradoxical, yet they are as intriguing and sacred as they are impenetrable.
Grant Phipps annotates...Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda)
Although a well-made film backed by an encyclopedia of high influences, its favor of stylistic technique and transitory allusions over expanded characterizations breeds disparity.
Grant Phipps wanders through Paris with...
