Milestones to the New Wave -- 1945 to 1959

This material was taken from two tableaus which appeared on pages 101-102 of the Dec 1962 special "New Wave" issue of "Cahiers du Cinema"

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A Chronology of the Milestones toward the New Cinema

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1945 --- Roger Leenhardt: articles in "Fontaine"

......................Andre Bazin: "Onthology of the Photographic Image"

......................Robert Bresson: "Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne

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1947 --- Roger Leenhardt: "Les Dernières Vacances"

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1948 --- Alexandre Astruc: "Le Caméra-stylo" (L'Ecran Français, No. 144)

....................Jean-Pierre Melville: "Le Silence de la Mer" ["The Silence of the Sea"]

....................Alain Resnais: "Van Gogh"

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1949 --- Creation of the club OBJECTIF 49. Biarritz: Festival of Film Maudit.

....................Jean Rouch: "Circonsion"

....................Georges Franju: "Le Sang du Bêtes" ["Blood of the Beasts"]

....................Pierre Kast and Jean Grémillon: "Les Charmes de l'Existence"

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1950 --- Gazette du Cinéma: 5 issues (E. Rohmer, J.-L. Godard, J. Rivette)

....................André Bazin: "Orson Welles"

....................Alain Resnais: "Guernica"

....................Jean-Pierre Melville: "Les Enfants Terrible" ["The Strange Ones"]

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1951 --- April: No.1 issue of Cahiers du Cinéma

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1952 --- Alexandre Astruc: "Le Rideau Cramoisi" ["The Crimson Curtain"] (Prix Delluc)

...................Alain Resnais and Chris Marker: "Les Statues Meurent Aussi" ["Statues Also Die"]

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1954 --- François Truffaut: "A Certain Tendency of French Cinéma" (Cahiers No.31). His debut writing criticism for the weekly ARTS.

....................Summer 1954: Agnès Varda films "La Ponte Courte".

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1955 --- Alain Resnais: "Nuit et Brouillard" ["Night and Fog"]

...................Alexandre Astruc: "Les Mauvaises Rencontres"

...................Jean Rouch: "Les Maitres-fous"

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1956 --- Roger Vadim: "Et Dieu Créa la Femme" ["And God Created Woman"]

....................Jean-Pierre Melville: "Bob le Flambeur" ["Bob the Gambler"]

....................Claude Bernard-Aubert: "Patrouille sans Espoir" (censured into "Patrouille de Choc" ["Shock Patrol"]

....................Festival de Tours: "Dimanche à Pékin" (Chris Marker), "Le Sabotier du Val de Loire" (Jacques Demy), "Le Coup de Berger" (Jacques Rivette), "Impressions de New York" (François Reichenbach)

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1957 --- Cahiers No. 71: "Situation of French Cinéma"

...................François Truffaut: "Les Mistons"

...................Jacques Demy: "Le Bel Indifferent"

...................Jean-Luc Godard: "Tous les Garcons S'Appellant Patrick"

...................Jean-Daniel Pollet: "Pourvu Qu'on Ait l'Ivresse"

...................December: Claude Chabrol films "Le Beau Serge"

...................Prix Delluc: "Ascenseur pour L'Echafaud" ["Elevator to the Gallows"] (Louis Malle)

...................The beginning in L'Express of Françoise Giroud's inquiry "The New Wave"

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1958 --- May: Festival of Cannes --- "Goha" (Jacques Baratier)

................Pierre Kast films "Le Bel Age"

....................June: Festival of Brussels: "Les Mistons" prize for direction

....................Agnès Varda "L'Opéra-Mouffe"

....................Georges Franju films "La Tête contre le Murs" ("Head Against the Wall")

....................July: Festival of Karlovy-Vary: doesn't open with Chris Marker's "Lettre de Sibérie"

.............Jacques Rivette films "Paris nous Appartient"

....................August Alain Resnais films "Hiroshima mon Amour"

.............Claude Chabrol films "Les Cousins"

....................September Festival of Venice: "Les Amants" (Louis Malle)

....................November Festival of Tours: "Blue Jeans" (Jacques Rozier)

.............The release of Marcel Carné's film: "Les Tricheurs"

.............François Truffaut films "Les Quatre Cents Coups" ("The Four Hundred Blows")

....................December Prix Delluc: "Moi un Noir" (Jean Rouch)

.............Jean-Daniel Pollet films "La Ligne de Mire"

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1959 --- February: release of "Le Beau Serge"

....................March: release of "Les Cousins"

....................May: Festival of Cannes: "Hiroshima Mon Amour" (out of competition)

............."Les Quatre Cents Coups" (best director)

............."Orfeu Negro" ("Black Orpheus") - palme d'or

.....................June-July-August; Commencement of filming -- "Le Signe du Lion" (Eric Rohmer), "Pantalaskas" (Paul Paviot), "L'Eau à la Bouche" (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze), "A Bout de souffle" ["Breathless"] (Jean-Luc Godard), "Les Jeux de l'Amour" (Philippe de Broca), "Le Huitième Jour" (Marcel Hanoun), etc.