Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont and Françoise Lebrun in "The Mother and the Whore." (Courtesy FLC Press) It feels like for as long as I’ve been reading about movies, I’ve been reading about “The ...

Jean Eustache — who killed himself in 1982 at age 42 — was one off the most important, provocative French filmmakers of the postwar era. He has often been called the French John Cassavetes. He also ...

Late French filmmaker Jean Eustache’s recently restored cult 1973 drama The Mother And The Whore will open Cannes Classics this year, the line-up for which was announced on Monday (May 2). Other ...

French film company Les Films du Losange has acquired the entire catalogue of influential post-New Wave director Jean Eustache, comprising five feature-length works and six short films. The deal with ...

Eustache, who made his mark on French cinema with The Mother and the Whore (1973) and committed suicide eight years later, is said to have revealed more of himself on-screen than in real life. As a ...

Following Main Slate, Spotlight, and Currents, the 60th New York Film Festival have now unveiled its final film-focused section with Revivals. Featuring brand-new restorations of works by Claire Denis ...

Almost the entire hour and three-quarters of Jean Eustache’s 1971 film “Numéro Zéro”—which received, yesterday, at Anthology Film Archives, what many in attendance think may be its New York City ...

The French New Wave was as much a revolution in performance as in direction. The young critics turned filmmakers behind such audaciously original films as “The 400 Blows,” “Breathless,” and “The ...

Jean Eustache’s digitally restored 1973 film, now at Lincoln Center, is part of a full retrospective of his work. By J. Hoberman Jean Eustache’s unwieldy first feature “The Mother and the Whore” — a ...

Throughout July, TIFF will rediscover the long-unseen influential work of Jean Eastache. Dirty Stories: The Films of Jean Eustache presents the Canadian premiere and complete retrospective in all 12 ...