RICHARD LINKLATER’S NOUVELLE VAGUE IS A LOVING RECREATION — AND CELEBRATION — OF JEAN- LUC GODARD’S BREATHLESS . AND HERE, EXCLUSIVELY FOR EMPIRE , LINKLATER WRITES A VALENTINE TO THE FRENCH NEW WAVE ITSELF…

A film technique that makes ordinary movements seem lyrical

Brigitte Bardot 1934-2025 “In the 1950s, before the ...

AGNÈS VARDA’S PARISIAN PORTRAIT OF A LADY

WAITING FOR GODARD

Motivated by pure affection, veteran indie director Richard Linklater tells the story of how Jean-Luc Godard’s early masterpiece Breathless came to be: it’s 1960 Paris, and Godard (channeled here by m