Title: French New Wave
Content: French New Wave New Wave () is often referred to as one of the most influential movements in the history of cinema. The term was first used by a group of French film critics and cinephiles associated with the magazine "Cahiers du cinéma" in the late 1950s and 1960s. Contempt for the "Tradition de qualité", which dominated French film at the time, was the impetus that drove these young writers. This was apparent in a manifesto-like essay written by François Truffaut in 1953, "Une certaine tendance du cinéma français", where he denounced the adaptation of safe literary works into unimaginative

Title: Cinephilia
Content: the Latin Quarter). "Revue du Cinéma", a magazine published by members of the two clubs, later evolved into the influential film magazine "Cahiers du Cinéma". Many of the people who attended the screenings became film critics and later filmmakers, founding the film movement known as the French New Wave. André Bazin, François Truffaut, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Alexandre Astruc, Jacques Rivette, Luc Moullet and others were regulars, and several, most notably Truffaut, maintained their ties to the community after they had achieved fame. The community fostered an interest in directors and films that had been neglected, forgotten or

Title: French New Wave
Content: be seen as a desperate struggle against the mainstream cinema of the time, or a degrading attack on the viewer's supposed naivety. Either way, the challenging awareness represented by this movement remains in cinema today. Effects that now seem either trite or commonplace, such as a character stepping out of their role in order to address the audience directly, were radically innovative at the time. Classic French cinema adhered to the principles of strong narrative, creating what Godard described as an oppressive and deterministic aesthetic of plot. In contrast, New Wave filmmakers made no attempts to suspend the viewer's disbelief;

Title: French New Wave
Content: began as critics for the famous film magazine "Cahiers du cinéma". "Cahiers" co-founder and theorist André Bazin was a prominent source of influence for the movement. By means of criticism and editorialization, they laid the groundwork for a set of concepts, revolutionary at the time, which the American film critic Andrew Sarris called "auteur theory". (The original French "La politique des auteurs", translated literally as "The policy of authors".) Bazin and Henri Langlois, founder and curator of the Cinémathèque Française, were the dual father figures of the movement. These men of cinema valued the expression of the director's personal vision

Title: Agnès Varda
Content: "Black Panthers") after seeing their leader was arrested for killing a policeman. Their focus was on the demonstrations that people lead in support of him and the Free Huey campaign. Like many other French New Wave directors, Varda was likely influenced by auteur theory, creating her own signature style by using the camera "as a pen." Varda describes her method of filmmaking as cinécriture (cinematic writing or "writing on film"). The term was created by merging "cinema" and "writing" in French. Rather than separating the fundamental roles that contribute to a film (cinematographer, screenwriter, director, etc.), Varda believes that all

Question: Which French phrase described an innovative movement in the cinema?
Answer: Nouvelle vague