Things To Do: Catch the Wave Film Festival at the Modern Art Museum

Not the Gidget and Moon Doggie waves. La Nouvelle Vague--French New Wave being celebrated by Lonestar Film Society and the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, August 13-16 and 20-23.

“There were many film waves in the 1960s which were just that, waves. They broke on the shore and were gone. But the original wave, the French Nouvelle Vague, which crashed upon an unprepared world at Cannes in May 1959 and which brought to the fore filmmakers like Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut and Alain Resnais, was more like a tsunami. It helped to transform not just French cinema but cinemas the world over. Its effects are with us today.”

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, author, Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960’s

Opening night reception (cash bar) starts at 6PM.

Opening remarks by author and film critic, Christopher Kelly at 6:45.

Last Year at Marienbad begins at 7PM.

For more information and schedule go to http://modern.org/films or contact auditoriumprograms@themodern.org

Bon chance!