Rebecca DeRoo, Professor, School of Communication, College of Liberal Arts, 585-475-4181, rjdgsh@rit.edu. Rebecca J. DeRoo is Associate Professor and Visual Culture Program Director in the School of ...

Before François Truffaut or Jean-Luc Godard had even made their first feature films, leading them to be declared the heroes of the French New Wave, Agnes Varda made La Pointe Courte. Her debut feature ...

Rickey leans on primary sources such as Varda’s children, Rosalie and Mathieu, and the filmmaker’s own words, as drawn from her 1994 book Varda Par Agnès, to diligently root her subject in ...

Varda was born in a suburb of Brussels in 1928, the third of five children; her father, an engineer, and her mother, an enthusiast of the arts, named her Arlette.

Yet, as Birkin got older, she began to worry less about her appearance, addressing the ageing process head-on in Agnés Varda’s film Jane B. par Agnès V. Released in 1988 in celebration of Birkin’s ...

Life can seldom offer us neat endings. Cinema sometimes can, and there is something nicely fitting to the notion that Agnès Varda, the seventh art’s great celebrator of all things gleaned, would leave ...

JR, Agnès Varda, and Matthieu Chedid French photographer JR, late Belgian director Agnès Varda, and French composer Matthieu Chedid form a quirky group at the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival.

Overshadowed by the formidable media presence of her husband, the erotomaniac Helmut Newton, that controversial totem of 20th-century photography, the figure of June Newton (who used the pseudonym ...

Fashion Jane Birkin made the simple things feel luxurious The actress and singer, who died at 76, became synonymous with ‘French girl style’ and inspired the most famous handbag in history ...

And books are coming out like never before: a biography by Laure Adler from Gallimard, announced for the fall literary season, an expanded reprint of her autobiography, Varda par Agnès ("Varda by ...