Public Events

Catch the Wave
A Film Festival Celebrating the Nouvelle Vague
August 13–16 and 20–23

Tickets are $8.50; $6.50 for Modern members and Lone Star Film Society members. Advance sales begin two hours prior to each show. Members of Reel People at the Modern and Lone Star Film Society members may purchase tickets in advance by calling the Modern at 817.738.9215. Guest speakers and special events will be announced at a later date. For more information contact: auditoriumprograms@themodern.org.

“There were many film waves in the 1960s which were just that, waves. They broke on the shore and were gone. But the original wave, the French Nouvelle Vague, which crashed upon an unprepared world at Cannes in May 1959 and which brought to the fore filmmakers like Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut and Alain Resnais, was more like a tsunami. It helped to transform not just French cinema but cinemas the world over. Its effects are with us today.” Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, author of Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960’s.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Lone Star Film Society celebrate the 50th anniversary of the French New Wave with a tribute to the directors who influenced and emerged from the influential Cahiers de Cinema. Screenings include many of the most famous and pivotal, now classic films, from groundbreaking French filmmakers such as Francois Truffaut, Louis Malle, Claude Charbrol and Jean Luc Godard.

The Modern and the Lone Star Film Society gratefully acknowledge:
The British Film Institute, The Downtown Film Festival LA and guest curator, Carolyn Schroeder, The French Embassy in the United States, Cultures France, The French Consulate in Houston, Dominique Chastres, French Cultural Attaché
Program notes: Carolyn Schroeder

Film Schedule

Films

Magnolia at the Modern

First Fridays at the Modern