French director Claude Chabrol, one of the founders of the New Wave movement whose films probed the latent malice beneath the placid surface of bourgeois life, died on Sunday. He was 80. Christophe ...

The least substantial movie in Lies & Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol, Arrow Video’s tribute to the late, great French New Wave director, also happens to best embody the set’s spirit: In ...

Claude Chabrol, one of the giants of French and international cinema, died on September 12, at the age of 80. To the end of his life, he kept to a daunting work regimen, directing an average of a film ...

Note: Five of French director Claude Chabrol’s later films — “Betty” (1992), “Color of Lies” (1999), “Night Cap” (2000), “The Swindle” (1997) and “Torment” (1994), all featuring some of France’s ...

The film director Claude Chabrol, who has died aged 80, created the first ripple of the French new wave with his first feature, Le Beau Serge (1958). Unlike some of his other critic colleagues on the ...

“Right from the start,” wrote the young critic in a 1955 Cahiers du Cinéma review, “Rear Window does present an immediate focus of interest that puts it on a higher plane than the majority of [Alfred ...

Truffaut dies young, Rivette gets old, Godard goes left then right, then left again, Rohmer tilts towards the monarchist far right... and Claude Chabrol just keeps on a-chugging, forever young and ...

In Fritz Lang's Fury, twenty-two members of a lynch mob on trial for their lives, presumably cleared by the perjured testimony of their neighbors, are proven guilty by the camera. A newsreel filmed ...

French filmmaker and father of the New Wave movement Claude Chabrol has died at age 80, Paris deputy mayor Christophe Girard confirmed on Sunday. By Rebecca Leffler, The Associated Press PARIS – ...

Their careers developed in different directions, but they were united at the outset in rejecting the hidebound traditions of contemporary French films, with their formulaic, "well-made" scripts, and ...

Claude Chabrol was the first of a young group of French film critics who broke through into directing in the late Fifties and formed the Nouvelle Vague, the movement that was to have a profound effect ...