Good reference Good read In French
Robert Bresson Keith Reader
Cahiers du Cinema The 1950’s Ed Jim Hillier
Short Cuts – The French New Wave by Naomi Greene 2011 – very good intro.
Nouvelle Vague Jean Douchet
Philippe Noiret Dominique Maillet
Cahiers du Cinema (monthly magazine)
Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut* Francois Truffaut
Bardot, Deneuve and Fonda Roger Vadim
The Taste for Beauty Eric Rohmer
Alain Resnais Marcel Oms
Godard Richard Roud
Claude Chabrol Robin Wood and Michael Walker
Godard on Godard Ed Jean Narboni
The New Wave James Monaco
Cahiers Du Cinema 1960-68 Ed Jim Hillier
Godard, Image Sounds, Politics Colin McCabe
Eric Rohmer-Realist and Moralist C.G.Crisp
Malle on Malle Ed Philip French
Eric Rohmer Pascale Bonitur
Francois Truffaut C.G.Crisp
Truffaut by Truffaut Francois Truffaut
‘Truffaut A Biography’ Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana.
Rivette–Texts and Interviews Jonathan Rosenbaum
Truffaut on Truffaut Francois Truffaut
Francois Truffaut Letters Translated by Gilbert Adair (Faber and Faber)
Au Revoir les Enfants/Lacombe Lucien (In English) Louis Malle
Godard and Others Louis D.Gianetti
Claude Lelouche-Film Director Peter Lev
Shoot the Piano Player- Francois Truffaut, Director Peter Brunette
African Cinema Manthia Diawara
La Nuit Americaine Roger Crittenden
Cahiers Du Cinema 1969-72 Ed Nick Browne
Maurice Pialat Joel Magny
Bertrand Blier – Sue Harris, MUP
Tavernier Jean-Luc Douin
The Cinema in France-After the New Wave** Jill Forbes
Marguerite Duras Leslie Hill
Luc Besson Susan Hayward
Diane Kurys Carrie Tarr
The ‘Three Colours’ Trilogy Geoff Andrew
Three Colours Scenarios (French) Krzysztf KieslowskI
Contemporary French Cinema Guy Austin
Projections 9/Positif (Special on French Cinema)
Coline Serreau Brigitte Rollet
France in focus – Film and National Identity, Sue Harris and Elizabeth Ezra.
Encore Hollywood, Lucy Mazdon
Nationalism and the Cinema in France Hugo Frey
French Film in Britain – Sex, Art and Cinephilia, Lucy Mazdon and Catherine Wheatley
Finally two really good introductions:
French Cinema – a Student’s Guide—Phil Powrie and Keith Reader
The French Cinema Book—Edited by Michael Temple and Michael Witt
Ciotat Railway Station, site of one of the Lumière brothers’ first films.
Thanks to Stephen Colmer. For photo.