French New Wave
The New Wave (French: Nouvelle vague) of French cinema was a cinematic style of the 1960s.
The writers of the magazine Cahiers du cinéma decided to apply their theories of the auteur - the director as the center of all moviemaking - to the world by directing movies themselves. Former writers of the magazine such as François Truffaut with his The 400 Blows (1959) and Jean-Luc Godard with Breathless (1960) marked the beginning of this era. Other directors included Claude Chabrol.
The movies featured hitherto unprecedented methods of expression, such as seven minute tracking shots.
The style had an impact on American movies as well. After Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967) the New Hollywood directors (e.g. Altman, Coppola, De Palma and Scorsese) of the late 1960s/early 1970s made movies inspired by their European (and in particular French) counterparts. The latest American director who admits a serious influence of the French new wave is Quentin Tarantino.
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