Film Series
Plus ça change: French New Wave in the New Millennium
The directors of the French New Wave made some of the most iconic works of art in the 20th century’s most vital medium. The revolutionary achievements of their youth are matched only by how they themselves have endured, continuing to push the medium forward into the 21st century. This series brings together late-career masterworks by titans like Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Jacques Rivette, and Agnès Varda, revealing artists who have adapted to changing styles, politics, and technologies while remaining as playful, rigorous, and radical as ever.
Jean-Luc Godard’s gorgeous, elusive, and unclassifiable late-career riddle.
A deft and charming life vs. art romantic roundelay from Jacques Rivette.
A bewitching cinema-meets-theater puzzle box from the director of Last Year at Marienbad.
Pioneering cine-essayist Chris Marker mixes the playful and the political.
Pioneering cinematic modernist Alain Resnais’ frothy, absurdist final statement.
A black-comic thriller from the Nouvelle Vague’s most cunning craftsman, Claude Chabrol.
Éric Rohmer’s final film is a dreamy romantic pastoral set in a mythological universe.
Alain Resnais’ late-career curveball plays like a romantic comedy from another planet.
A delightful documentary-as-self portrait from the ever-idiosyncratic Agnès Varda.
Working in 3D, Jean-Luc Godard reinvents cinema (again).
The eternally impish Agnès Varda revisits her life, memories, and films.
Jacques Rivette’s coolly classicist, 19th-century-set tale of amour fou.