Jean-Luc Godard

The Sixties were a flashpoint of political change for much of the world. And while Agnes Varda’s features would not enter the realm of outright documentary for nearly a decade, she was intent on capturing…

By the time Agnès Varda was filming her second feature in the summer of 1961, the French New Wave was in full swing. Godard, Truffaut, Resnais, Rohmer, and more had all released their directorial debuts…

When the news broke on March 29th, 2019 that Agnès Varda had passed away at age 90 from cancer, the film world mourned, but I did not. I recognized the name of course, but had…