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PARIS - Filmmaker Agnès Varda, a trailblazer of the French New Wave who became the first female director to receive the Academy's Governors Award for lifetime achievement, has died. She was 90. Her ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

With her first feature, “La Pointe Courte,” Agnès Varda was far ahead of the French New Wave; with her second, “Cleo from 5 to 7,” which she made in 1961, she joined up with the movement and expanded ...

This is a fascinating, atmospheric film from director Agnès Varda, about a woman waiting for the results of a life-or-death medical test. The hours between 5 and 7 p.m. are famous in France as the ...

More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She takes us through the film, from opening scene to ...

When the French Institute Alliance Française commissioned a performance by husband and wife partners Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson, the two incorrectly assumed that their work needed to have a French ...

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s ...

Writer-director Agnès Varda is seldom mentioned among the first-rank French New Wave directors for any number of reasons: Her career both precedes and postdates the New Wave, she married the decidedly ...