“Glean” is a word not often used in English, except in the context of gleaning information. But in French it has a more common, more specific use–to pick up produce or other foodstuffs left behind by ...

Agnès Varda, a groundbreaking French filmmaker who was closely associated with the New Wave — although her re-imagining of filmmaking conventions actually predated the work of Jean-Luc Godard, ...

The usual way to begin writing about Agnès Varda is to take note of her status as the only woman director associated with the French Nouvelle Vague. I’ve done it again just now for what I hope is the ...

Carrie Rickey cried when her professor, artist Manny Farber, played Agnès Varda's film Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) for the class. It was 1971, and she had not known that women made movies. “I wanted to ...