... of the French New Wave borrowed heavily from the conventions of the American gangster film in works like Breathless by Jean-Luc Goddard. (Pg. 415) Like Truffaut, Raoul Coutard worked as director of photography with prolific and stylistic director Jean-Luc Goddard. Unlike Truffaut, Godard is a "militantly intellectual and ideologically committed filmmaker whose films almost always involve some form of autocritique or ... today. Most, if not all modern filmmakers create films in the style of the French New Wave. Quentin Tarantino with his nonlinear sequencing in Pulp Fiction follows that ...

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... French New Wave got off the ground just before the sixties, with its first few films releasing in 1958 and 1959 by filmmakers such as Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Alain Resnais. These filmmakers stood for the evolution of both the social order and the form, power, and influence of film as a medium. The New Wave movement was ... ...

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