Actor who played a series of wicked men in the French New Wave, including in Claude Chabrol’s La Femme Infidèle
March 2018
Stéphane Audran obituary
Star of Babette’s Feast who shone in the films of her husband Claude Chabrol
March 2016
Jean Rabier obituary
Cinematographer who for many years was Claude Chabrol’s ‘third eye’
January 2016
Ran Blake: Chabrol Noir review – flinty, romantic and non-generic music
80-year-old composer of the jazz/classical Third Stream movement is inspired here by film noir and Claude Chabrol
July 2013
Bernadette Lafont obituary
Actor with a natural and rebellious style, she helped to launch the French New Wave
May 2013
Journey To Italy: the Italian film that kickstarted the French New Wave
Roberto Rossellini's half-improvised neo-realist masterpiece uses the ruins of Pompeii as an unforgettable metaphor for a marriage
April 2013
Philip French's classic DVD
Le beau Serge; Les cousins
The first example of the French new wave and its immediate companion piece remain the work of a true auteur, writes Philip French
March 2012
Michel Duchaussoy obituary
French actor who played several classic roles on stage and dubbed the voice of Marlon Brando in The Godfather
February 2012
Vincent Cassel: 'You can't escape from what you are'
In his latest role, the actor plays an anarchic disciple of Sigmund Freud. So, asks Elizabeth Day, did he get to the bottom of why he's drawn to the dark side?
October 2011
Nicholas Lezard's choice
A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma by Emilie Bickerton – review
The story of probably the best film magazine in the world. By Nicholas Lezard
September 2010
Biographical dictionary of film
Claude Chabrol
David Thomson
Gérard Depardieu claims he helped Robert De Niro rise to the occasion
Through the French looking glass with Claude Chabrol
Agnès Poirier
Film blog
Claude Chabrol: a career in clips
Claude Chabrol's life in pictures
Film blog
Claude Chabrol anatomised the French middle class with a twist of the scalpel
