‘The 400 Blows’ and ‘Jules Et Jim’ by Truffaut are pretty good too. And don’t forget his book on Alfred Hitchcock. Old editions of Cahiers Du Cinema are on-line too. New Wave cinema wasn’t just happening in France. Don’t forget the Free Cinema movement of Great Britain and movies like ‘Saturday Night Sunday Morning’, ‘Room At The Top’, ‘The L Shaped Room’, ‘Darling’ and ‘if…’. America had its New Wave with people like John Cassavettes and Andy Warhol. Italy had people like Roberto Rossellini and Piers Paolo Pasolini and Germany had Fassbinder. Exciting as the Nouvelle Vague was it wasn’t the only game in town. Also it slagged off 30s French cinema something rotten which is a bit unfair.
