Rank the directors of the French New Wave

From best to worst, here is how I would rate them:

1. jacques rivette
2. eric rohmer
3. alain resnais
4. agnes varda
5. jean pierre melville
6. jean luc godard
7. louis malle
8. francois truffaut
9. claude chabrol
10. jacques demy

If I missed any important directors from this movement, feel free to include them.

Sticking to one’s I’ve seen three or more by

1) eric rohmer
2) agnes varda
3) jean pierre melville
4) francois truffaut
5) jean luc godard
6) louis malle

1.Jacques Rivette
2> Jean-Luc Godard
3. Alain Resnias
4. Jacques Demy
5. Eric Rohmer
6. Chris Marker
7. Agnes Varda
8. Claude Chabrol
9. Francois Truffaut
10. Louis Malle

1) Jacques Rivette
2) Eric Rohmer
3) Claude Chabrol
4) JLG
5) Alain Resnais
6) Jean-Pierre Melville
7) Agnes Varda
8) Jacques Demy
9) Francois Truffaut

Wanted to include the likes of Chris Marker, Maurice Pialat, Louis Malle, Phillipe Garrel, and Georges Franju. But I think these guys are directors that try to lump them in with the new wavers solely to be able to call them something even though their films were often more superior to the others.

1. Jean-Luc Godard
2. Éric Rohmer
3. François Truffaut
4. Jacques Rivette
5. Robert Bresson

Please, do not insult Bresson, he is too good to be in a group.

Bresson? Say what?

3. François Truffaut > 5. Robert Bresson

How?

Jean-Pierre Melville and Louis Malle, French new wave?

Melville really started to whole thing with Bob, but I guess his other films aren’t so much like it. I’ve never included Malle myself though.

Just going with the ten in the original post, regardless of whether I think they are Nouvelle Vaguish:

1. Jean-Pierre Melville
2. Alain Resnais
3. Jacques Rivette
4. Eric Rohmer
5. Francois Truffaut
6. Agnes Varda
7. Louis Malle
8. Claude Chabrol
9. Jean-Luc Godard
10. Jacques Demy

turning on bullhorn. testing 1, 2 3. (sound of feedback) ok, is this on? ok…

MELVILLE IS NOT PART OF THE NOUVELLE VAGUE

no offense to NV or JPM or any Mubians. If you are including “influences on the new wave” along with “new wave” the historical moment, than why not call Hitchcock a new wave director?

Technically Varda, Marker, Resnais and Demy aren’t part of the New Wave, either. They’re more part of the Left Bank. In fact, I think Varda openly dislikes being placed with them.
If we include them we might as well include filmmakers like Pialat, Gorin, Sautet and Tavenier.

But in terms of the writers for Cahiers that became filmmakers:
Jean-luc Godard
Jacques Rivette
Eric Rohmer
Francois Truffaut
Claude Chabrol

Including the Left Bank:
Chris Marker
Jean-luc Godard
Alain Resnais
Jacques Rivette
Agnes Varda
Eric Rohmer
Francois Truffaut
Jacques Demy
Claude Chabrol

Kind of interested on the consensus on Maguerite Duras, Philippe Garrel, Straub-Huillet and Malle. And two filmmakers I’ve not yet seen; Eustache and Robbe-Grillet.

French New Wave:

Jean-Luc Godard
Eric Rohmer
Jacques Rivette
Claude Chabrol
Francois Truffaut
Luc Moullet

Eh, why not. Not including Melville, mixing both Cahiers and Left Bank members, and seperated into two lists. Those I’ve seen three or more films from and those I’ve seen less than three from.

- Jacques Rivette
- Éric Rohmer
- Alain Resnais
- François Truffaut
- Jean-Luc Godard
-——————
- Marguerite Duras
- Louis Malle
- Luc Moullet
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Claude Chabrol

Duras, Malle, Resnais and Robbe-Grillet are not French New Wave, Black Irish. :/

Nevermind, I only glanced at your list and it confused me.

I seem to have that effect on people.

Mysterious Black Irish at Noon lol

I guess mine would be… I should study the new wave some more.

Francois Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Melville
Agnes Varda
Jean-Luc Godard

I would rather not mix New Wave with so-called Left Bank.

I don’t consider melvile part of the french new wave, but anyway.

1. jean luc godard

2. eric rohmer
3. Louis Malle
4. Jean-Pierre Melville
5. alain resnais
6. francois truffaut
7. agnes varda
8. Jacques Rivette
9. claude chabrol
10. jacques demy

Various other frogs post 1960 (more or less):

Robert Bresson
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jacques Tati
Jean Rollin
Jacques Deray
Jean-Marie Straub
Philippe Garrel
Maurice Pialat
Jean Eustache
Jacques Demy
Louis Malle
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Resnais
Chris Marker
Agnes Varda
Marguerite Duras

I stopped pre Cinema du Look.

I have to say my favorite director from the French New Wave is Georges Méliès, i also enjoy Jean-Jacques Annaud.

1. Eric Rohmer

2. Claude Chabrol
3. Godard… I guess…
4. Melville
5. Resnais

Technically, the “French New Wave” was always categorized as both the Cahiers du Cinema group and the Left-Bank group, and Melville was always considered the ‘Godfather’ of it all, and I’m referencing all the way back to the first mentions of this " … fresh, new style emanating from France" at the international release of Malle’s The Lovers. Nobody is wrong in including them.

Didn’t Melville hate the Cahiers crowd? Didn’t he say he and Clouzot were the only worthwhile French directors?

Uhhh… Melville appeared in Godard’s first feature (as well as a Malle in 1960, who was never technically a part of any crowd) and a Chabrol in 1963. The New Wave was over by 1964, so if Melville hated it it sure took him a long time to realize this fact…

Also, Clouzot made exacly 1 film after the appearance of the New Wave, and no critically acclaimed films after 1954.

The New Wave directors admired Melville’s do-it-yourself (not to mention cheap) approach and Bob Le Flambeur but I have never heard anyone lump him in with the New Wave. His style is the classical narrative style – his own perfected, stylized version of it. He liked the New Wave directors at first because they treated him as a hero. (Godard later was very dismissive of him.) By Army of Shaodws he was considered a reactionary. I don’t think he can be considered a New Wave film maker. He did not share in spirit of revolution. He was an artistic conservative, which does not diminish the greatness of his film making.

When one says French New Wave, I think Cahiers du cinéma but to each his own.