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FRENCH NEW WAVE INTERVIEWS

Newwavefilm.com Interviews....
  • Alain Jessua
    Newwavefilm.com talks to one of France's most innovative directors in an exclusive interview about his life and work. (translated from French.)
  • Raymond Cauchetier
    Newwavefilm.com talks to the legendary photographer whose photographs defined and documented the French New Wave. (translated from French.)
  • Serge Toubiana
    Ahead of the release in cinemas of the documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut, for which he co-wrote the screenplay, newwavefilm.com spoke to M. Toubiana about the film and his friendship with Francois Truffaut.
  • Kent Jones on 'Hitchcock/Truffaut'
    Ahead of its cinema release we talk to director Kent Jones about his film Hitchcock/Truffaut, a documentary about the seminal book of interviews between Truffaut and his hero, Alfred Hitchcock.
  • Dudley Andrew on André Bazin
    Professor Dudley Andrew on the life and work of the celebrated film critic and theorist André Bazin who helped inspire the New Wave.
  • Geoff Andrew on Francois Truffaut
    Newwavefilm.com interviews Head of the Film Programme at the BFI, Geoff Andrew, who discusses Truffaut's enduring appeal, his influences, and what makes him one of cinema's greatest and most fascinating directors.

  • Geoff Andrew on Eric Rohmer
    Newwavefilm.com again interviews Head of the Film Programme at the BFI, Geoff Andrew, who talks about Rohmer’s films and his own personal recollections of the director.


  • Michael Witt on Jean-Luc Godard
    In conjunction with the BFI’s major retrospective of Jean-Luc Godard’s 60-year career, we asked the season’s co-curator Michael Witt for his thoughts on what makes Godard such a unique and important filmmaker.


  • Peter Hames on Vera Chytilová
    To celebrate the BFI’s season Defiance and Compassion: The Films of Vera Chytilová, we asked film scholar Peter Hames for his insights into the life and career of one of the defining figures of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
  • Michael Brooke on Jerzy Skolimowski
    To celebrate the BFI’s season Outsiders & Exiles: The Films of Jerzy Skolimowski, we talk to writer and curator Michael Brooke about the life and films of the celebrated Polish director.

Classic Interviews

Truffaut and Hitchcock

  • Hitchcock/Truffaut
    In late August 1962, Francois Truffaut carried out a week of all day interviews with Alfred Hitchcock covering his life and work in cinema. The tapes, re-discovered by Serge Toubiana in the 1990s, can be heard here in full, in audio format.
  • In this excerpt from the TV show Cinépanorama from February 20, 1960, host France Roche interviews François Truffaut after his return from New York, where Les Quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows) was named Best Foreign Film by the New York Film Critics Circle.
  • Jean-Luc Godard interviewed by Tom Milne prior to the first screening of Vivre sa vie (1962) at the London Film Festival.


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