How influential was the new wave? FS5 World Cinema

1. the french new wave [la nouvelle vague] The legacy of new wave cinema

3. Whether they’re aware of it or not, all the film-makers who have come since have been influenced by the NEW WAVE……….the first films [of the NW directors] gave you the feeling that you could make a film yourself, anyhow, with anyone, no matter what the story was and that you didn’t need expensive materials, famous names or powerful lights. MARTIN SCORSESE Perhaps you won’t believe me if I tell you that the movement started in French cinema by the NW was followed day by day in Iran – under their influence my way of imagining or envisaging cinema changed. ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

5. As with most art-film movements, the innovations of the New Wavers trickled down to the American cinema . Beginning with the heavily evident stylistic similarities in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967) , the following generation of American young, studio-hired filmmakers known as New Hollywood (e.g. Altman , Coppola , De Palma , Polanski and Scorsese ) of the late 1960s and early 1970s all claim and display influence from the French tradition of the previous decade. Bob Rafelson, a member of the New Hollywood movement ( Five Easy Pieces ), claimed that the Marx Brothers and the French New Wave influenced his vision for the television series, The Monkees, which he created and oversaw. Rafelson, with Jack Nicholson, went on to direct the Monkees' feature film, the surrealistic Head which displays a strong New Wave influence. NEW WAVE AND HOLLYWOOD

6. Many contemporary filmmakers , including Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson , claim influence from the New Wave. Quentin Tarantino dedicated Reservoir Dogs to Jean-Luc Godard and named his production company A Band Apart, a play on words of the Godard film Bande à part. Wes Anderson's sardonic comedies are known to carry influence from the French New Wave; for example, the opening scenes of The Royal Tenenbaums closely mimic the style and cinematography used in the opening scene of Agne Vara’s Cleo from 5 to 7 . Additionally, the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was filmed using techniques borrowed from Godard