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New Wave Cinema Around The World
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UPDATED 2 FEBRUARY 2012.

Features & Site News

• The BFI's Passport to Cinema series upcoming showings include (London, UK):
  • Celine & Julie Go Boating introduced by Mark LeFanu (7th Feb)
  • Vivre Sa Vie introduced by Philip Kemp (20th Feb, film only 26th Feb)
• Jean-Luc Godard 1969 - present, expanded biography now live!

Worldwide News

• Time Magazine's Richard Corliss votes Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinema the Best DVD of the Year

• Top critics Kent Jones and Jonathan Rosenbaum discuss Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard

• Richard Brody of The New Yorker explains why the French New Wave is still big news in France

• Richard Williams of the Guardian explains why Alphaville is his favourite film

• Martin Scorcese includes The 400 Blows in his list of 11 favourite family films

• Wim Wenders discusses New German Cinema and his collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola on the ill-fated "Hammet" for IndieWire

• LIFE magazine publishes amazing online photographic gallery of French New Wave stars

• Richard Brody, film critic at the New Yorker, discusses the ongoing influence of Cahiers du Cinema

• Francois Truffaut's last interview reprinted in The New Yorker

North America

• Historian wants a statue of Jean Seberg in her home town (Marshalltown, IA)

• A brand-new print of Godard's Weekend plays at LA's Cinefamily cinema (Los Angeles, CA. Jan 2012)

• Chicago's Doc Films cinema will be celebrating 'the Best of British Cinema After the New Wave' every Sunday through March (Chicago, IL. Jan - Mar 2012)

• "Forever Young: The Films of Francois Truffaut" retrospective at the Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA. Jan 2012)

Europe

• Jean-Paul Belmondo's Paris apartment burgled (Paris, France)

• Une année studieuse (A Studious Year), a new novel by Anne Wiazemsky, goes over her relationship with Jean-Luc Godard (France)

• The Arsenal Cinema in Berlin screens a season devoted to new wave actress Sandrine Bonnaire (Berlin, Germany. Jan - Feb 2012)

• Medieval historian introduces a screening of Eric Rohmer's 'Perceval Le Gallois' at Paris's Le Forum Des Images (Paris, France. Nov 2011)
  

Asia

• Werner Herzog advised young filmmakers to be self-sufficient at the Dubai International Film Festival where he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award (Dubai, UAE)

• As part of their celebration of German Cinema, films by New German Cinema legends Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders will be shown at the Pune International Film Festival (Pune, India. Jan 12-19 2012)

• Chabrol Retrospective at the Summer International Film Festival (SIFF) in Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)

South America

• A major overview of the work of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillot plays at the Bank of Brazil Cultural Center in January (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jan 2012)

• Jacques Rivette's La Religieuse and Jean-Luc Godard's Une femme est une femme play at Brazil's Campinas cinema in January (Campinas, Brazil. Jan 2012)

• Jacques Demy's Donkey Skin playing at the Estação Sesc Laura Alvim (Ipanema, Brazil. Jan 2012)

• Former Cahiers du Cinema editor and Truffaut biographer Antoine du Baecque visits Rio de Janiero to talk about Two In the Wave (Brazil)

Australia & New Zealand

• The Sydney Morning Herald picks Eric Rohmer's Le Rayon Vert as the perfect dvd for somebody who has just experienced the end of a relationship. (Sydney, Australia)

• Eric Rohmer's Le Beau Marriage will be playing at the Hobart Film Society in Hobart (Hobart, Australia. Dec 2011)

Africa

• Wes Felton writes about the origins of African cinema and its link to the French New Wave on Senses of Cinema