This week's new films

03/19/11 Submarine (15) (Richard Ayoade, 2010, UK/US) Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor. 97 mins Ayoade evidently did his homework before stepping behind the camera, swotting up on everything from the French New Wave to The Graduate to Wes Anderson, but the result is a fresh and distinctly British-flavoured coming-of-ager, full of provincial frustrations and recognisable types. The story takes few ...

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Richard Ayoade loves directing, no joke

06/01/11 The star of the British sitcom 'The IT Crowd' says filmmaking is his true love. He has directed 'Submarine,' a coming of age tale. If the new movie "Submarine" carries the pertly eccentric, aesthetic tinge of a French New Wave coming-of-age film like "The 400 Blows," there are two reasons: Its screenwriter-director Richard Ayoade is a cinephile who knows those classics well, and, he stressed, so ...

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Just Before Nightfall (Juste avant la nuit)

06/20/11 Rent It THE FILM: Alfred Hitchcock was a touchstone for all of the French New Wave filmmakers ( Truffaut and Rohmer wrote entire books on him), but the master's influence might be most directly evident in the work of the late Claude Chabrol, the most consistently prolific of the New Wavers (he turned out more or less a film every couple of years between 1958 and his death last year). Chabrol is ...

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