The Latest Breaking News from François Truffaut

At his best, the Franco-Swiss film director and Young Turk of the New Wave was responsible for some of the most sublime moments of 1960s screen time

Jean-Luc Godard, who has died at the age of 91, was the last survivor of the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague), the immensely influential movement of rebellious young filmmakers and critics who ensured that French cinema was the focus of film goers’ attention at the start of the 1960s.

New Wave film-maker who changed the course of cinema with À Bout de Souffle

Godard was the inspired maverick of the French New Wave, the Lennon to Truffaut’s McCartney, and kept his radical imagination to the very end

The radical director of Breathless and Alphaville, and who was a key figure in the French Nouvelle Vague, has died

Actor who played a series of wicked men in the French New Wave, including in Claude Chabrol’s La Femme Infidèle

The award-winning French actor Michel Bouquet, who appeared in more than 100 films during his 70-year career, died in a Paris hospital on Wednesday aged 96.

Fire down the rabbit hole with the punk-popster, Blink-182 band members and Megan Fox

As Jules et Jim gets a re-release in time for the 90th anniversary on Sunday of the French director’s birth, we pan across his greatest works