Compared to his contemporaries of the French New Wave, Luc Moullet was an outlier and an outlaw. A precociously talented critic at Cahiers du cinéma, for whom he began writing at just 18 years old, Moullet would go on to produce revered studies of directors such as Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Miklós Jancsó. A risk-taker and a jester, a scrounger and a restless genre pillager, as...