Jules and Jim review – an affecting love triangle but no match for Truffaut
While there is compassion and curiosity in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s adaptation, this production lacks the whirlwind quality of Roché’s novel and the film
September 2022
Jean-Luc Godard: a genius who tore up rule book without troubling to read it
Peter Bradshaw
Godard was the inspired maverick of the French New Wave, the Lennon to Truffaut’s McCartney, and kept his radical imagination to the very end
June 2022
Jean-Louis Trintignant, star of A Man and a Woman and Amour, dies aged 91
The veteran of the French new wave starred in a series of auteur-driven films, before appearing in Michael Haneke’s Amour
April 2022
Michel Bouquet obituary
Actor who played a series of wicked men in the French New Wave, including in Claude Chabrol’s La Femme Infidèle
February 2022
Notebook
Some of François Truffaut’s new wave films are still coming of age
Rachel Cooke
The Bride Wore Black has something to say to modern audiences, but let’s draw a veil over The Woman Next Door
Ranked
François Truffaut’s 20 best films – ranked
As Jules et Jim gets a re-release in time for the 90th anniversary on Sunday of the French director’s birth, we pan across his greatest works
Jules et Jim review – Truffaut’s love triangle is a whirlwind masterpiece
The French New Wave classic chronicles the lives of two men and the dangerous object of their affections
January 2022
The 400 Blows review – François Truffaut’s coming-of-age masterwork
Jean-Pierre Léaud dazzles at the heart of an autobiographical opus that invites new waves of adulation with each viewing
February 2021
The stage on screen
The Last Metro: theatre is a sanctuary in François Truffaut's wartime gem
Our series on films about the stage continues with the 1980 classic about a playhouse in occupied Paris, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu
September 2020
Michael Lonsdale obituary
Michael Lonsdale, Bond villain Hugo Drax in Moonraker, dies aged 89
December 2019
Anna Karina, Catherine Deneuve: how movies malign women by calling them muses
Male directors have often diminished the highly creative women who inspired them. Will the rise of female film-makers revolutionise the role of ‘muse’?
October 2019
Director Euzhan Palcy says Hollywood found her ideas 'too black'
Barbican in London is shining a light on film-maker’s work as part of Black History Month
July 2019
Valentina Cortese obituary
Italian actor remembered for her roles in Day for Night, The Wandering Jew and The House on Telegraph Hill
April 2018
My favourite film decade
From Godzilla to Some Like it Hot – why the 1950s is my favourite film decade
The decade that invented teenagers and giant radioactive lizards also gave birth to the melodramas of Douglas Sirk, the wry satires of Billy Wilder and saw Hitchcock at his finest
March 2018
My favourite film decade
From Blow-Up to Bonnie and Clyde – why the 1960s is my favourite film decade
Rebellion against ‘le cinema du papa’ was the rallying cry of new waves worldwide in this golden era of studio-funded oddness
September 2017
Close Encounters of the Third Kind review – Spielberg's spectacular returns to Earth
20 reasons to love school
August 2017
Hollywood at war: when film-makers feud with each other
James Cameron and Patty Jenkins disagreeing over Wonder Woman’s grasp of feminism is not the first and won’t be the last example of directors falling out
