The French New Wave was a movement that lasted between 1959 to 1964. It all started with the Cinematheque Francois, an underground organization that would regularly show older films from around the world. This beget the cine-club, and by the 1954 there were 100,000 members in 200 clubs. From these clubs several magazines were created, the most famous of these were L’Ecran Francois, La Revue du Cinema, Postif, and the world known Cahiers du Cinema. One of the two …showed first 75 words of 1242 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1242 total…to influence and assimilate into mainstream cinema. The influence of the French New Wave stretched across all of Europe. Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Yugoslavia, the U.S. soon followed by creating film schools. To this day The French New Wave still influences movie-makers who play up the antihero, and experiment with and go against conventional movie making. Most of these films are now part of the “independent scene”, a movement not unlike the French New Wave.