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Bergman hit Paris like a wild north wind. In 1957, when a cycle of his films was first shown at La Cinémathèque Française, the main film library in Paris, hundreds of cinémanes stood in line night after night for three nights to get seats. "We were absolutely overthrown," says Director Truffaut. "Here was a man who had done all we dreamed of doing. He had written films as a novelist writes books. Instead of a pen he had used a camera. He was an author of cinema...
...Belongs to Us. "Of all the New Wave films, this is the most original and the richest." Such is the opinion of many French reviewers. Perhaps they are talking about some other movie. This one is the first full-length effort of a 34-year-old critic (Cahiers du Cinéma) named Jacques Rivette, and the best that can conscientiously be said for Director Rivette at this point is that he promises handsomely to do better next time...
Soon he was writing reviews for the Paris monthly, Cahiers du Cinéma, the Parisian equivalent of Schwab's Drugstore in Hollywood, a place where young hopefuls loiter. In the late '50s, every young French director who had directed nothing wrote for Cahiers. One by one, they emerged - Claude Chabrol with The Cousins, François Truffaut with The 400 Blows. Only Jean-Luc Godard seemed to stay behind, and one day he disappeared with the Cahiers' petty cash. Chabrol and Truffaut wondered if Godard was trying to finance a film. They came...
...LOVE GAME. Philippe de Broca's bedspring farce, the first comedy turned up by the new wave of French cinéastes, bounces along like the movies did when Rene Clair first made them...
...oldtimer named Marcel Carne (Children of Paradise), and it became one of the biggest hits of 1958. It was followed by another low-cost smash called The Lovers, directed by Louis Malle, 27. Suddenly, the New Wave was rolling, and on the crest of it dozens of ambitious young cinéastes went surfboarding to success. In the past twelve months, according to the French Film Office, at least 30 young men without previous experience in film direction have gone into production with full-length films, and already half a dozen of them have achieved both critical acclaim...