Delve Deeper into The Beaches of Agnès A film by Agnès Varda
In this delightful memoir, award- Neupert, Richard. A History of winning French filmmaker Agnès the French New Wave Cinema. ADULT FICTION Varda (Vagabond, Cléo From 5 to Wisconsin: The University of 7) employs all the magic of Wisconsin Press, 2002. An in- Moravia, Alberto. Contempt. cinema to juxtapose the real and depth look at the social, economic, New York, NY: New York the imagined, the past and the and aesthetic mechanisms that Review of Books, 1999. A present, pain and joy. For this 81- shaped French film in the 1950s compelling tale of the precarious year-old artist, memories live and early 1960s. nature of love and integrity, this through her films. In The book was later made into a film by Beaches of Agnès, she uses film Sellier, Geneviève. Masculine Jean-Luc Godard and starred clips, old photos and gorgeous Singular: French New Wave Brigitte Bardot. reenactments to revisit her Cinema. Durham, NC: Duke Belgian youth, association with University Press, 2008. An FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES the French New Wave, marriage to original interpretation of French director Jacques Demy (The New Wave cinema by one of À bout de souffle (Breathless) Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and the France’s feminist film scholars. by Jean-Luc Godard, Criterion making of her movies. You don’t Collection, 1960 TRT: 90 mins. need to know anything about Temple, Michael. For Ever Godard’s debut film helped usher Varda to enjoy this enchanting Godard. London: Black Dog in the French New Wave with its glimpse into the treasure chest of Publishing, 2007. Temple offers rough edges and free-form style. her memories. a collection of essays that Breathless is both a critique and reassess and redefine Godard’s tribute to the American crime career and its influence on ADULT NONFICTION genre. contemporary culture. www.amazon.com
Agnès Varda Documentary Filmmaking Cinévardaphoto by Agnès
Quart, Barbara. Women Varda, Cinema Guild, 2004. Artis, Anthony Q. The Shut Up Directors: The Emergence of a TRT: 96 mins. This collection of and Shoot Documentary Guide. New Cinema. New York: short films examines the power of Burlington, MA: Focal Press, Praeger Publishers, 1989. the still image. 2008. This guide for Quart examines major www.amazon.com documentary filmmakers is contemporary women directors of intended for people who want to narrative feature film--their 4 by Agnès Varda (La Pointe make documentary films, not just themes, their art, and the Courte, Cléo from 5 to 7, Le talk about them. circumstances under which they bonheur, Vagabond) by Agnès work. The study looks at today's Varda, Criterion Collection, Bernard, Sheila Curran. burgeoning number of women 2008. TRT: 345 mins. This set Documentary Storytelling: directors and progresses to includes four of Agnès Varda most Making Stronger and More American women directors as well well-know films La Pointe Courte Dramatic Nonfiction Films. as women directors in Western (1956), Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Burlington, MA: Focal Press, Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Le Bonheur (1965), and Vagabond 2009. Bernard’s book guides Latin America. (1985). filmmakers in using storytelling www.criterion.com techniques to strengthen their Smith, Alison. Agnès Varda documentary films. (French Film Directors). The Gleaners and I by Agnès
Manchester, UK: Manchester Varda, Zeitgeist Films, 2002. Rabiger, Michael. Directing the University Press, 1998. A close TRT:142 mins. In this Documentary. Burlington, MA: analysis of the recurring themes in documentary Varda investigates Focal Press, 2009. This book is Agnès Varda’s distinctive cinema. the lives of those who find an extensive and detailed guide to subsistence from what is left documentary filmmaking covering French New Wave behind by others. Inhabitants of all aspects of do-it-yourself film the French countryside search the production. Greene, Naomi. The French harvested fields for forgotten
New Wave: A New Look (Short produce, some by choice and Cuts). London: Wallflower NONFICTION FOR YOUNG others by necessity. Press, 2007. This volume traces ADULTS www.amazon.com the social and cultural changes of post-war France that gave birth to Parkinson, David. The Young Les parapluies de Cherbourg the New Wave, then charts the Oxford Book of the Movies. (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) careers of artists like Alain Renais New York: Oxford University by Jacques Demy, Koch Lorber and Jean-Luc Godard. Press, 1997. This volume covers Films, 1964. TRT: 91 mins. the history of movies, both Demy’s bittersweet romantic Marie, Michel. The French New technologically and artistically, drama in which nearly all the Wave: An Artistic School. including the French New Wave. dialogue is sung became one of Malden, MA: Blackwell his most celebrated works. This Publishers Ltd, 2003. An seminal film also introduced the introduction to the French New world to Catherine Deneuve. Wave by one of the world’s www.amazon.com leading film scholars.
Delve Deeper into The Beaches of Agnès A film by Agnès Varda
Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows) by Francois Truffaut, Criterion Collection, 1959 TRT: 99 mins. Truffaut’s first film chronicles the childhood of the misunderstood and forgotten Antoine Doinel. The film is based on the filmmaker’s own childhood and is considered to be one of the pillars of the French New Wave. www.amazon.com
The World of Jacques Demy by Agnès Varda, Fox Lorber Films, 1995 TRT: 90 mins. The influential auteur of the French New Wave and husband of Agnès Varda is the subject of this intimate biography. www.amazon.com