The French New Wave legend, who will be the first female director to receive an honorary Oscar, explains why her new documentary summarizes her career. Many people associate the first stirrings of the ...

Have no doubt, Varda was a phenomenal filmmaker; she just happened to be a thoroughly endearing human being to boot. The fact that her co-director on Faces, Places, the artist JR, was decades younger ...

When director Agnès Varda came out with her 2017 Oscar-nominated documentary Faces Places, co-directed with the artist JR, many people assumed it would be her final film. In her late 80s at that point ...

Although "Faces Places" was rumored to be her last film, the French New Wave icon cannot retire without sharing her vast wealth of knowledge with the rest of us. After earning an Oscar nomination for ...

When Agnes Varda walks into the lobby of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, she’s immediately recognized by a fan. It’s easy to spot the legendary filmmaker and artist: she’s noticeably ...

The punk-haired, constantly self-reinventing New Wave pioneer retained her playful, wise and humane spirit in a dazzling career spanning more than six decades. By Stephen Dalton Forever blurring the ...

Agnès Varda, a groundbreaking French filmmaker who was closely associated with the New Wave — although her re-imagining of filmmaking conventions actually predated the work of Jean-Luc Godard, ...

Agnès Varda, the pioneering French film director who emerged in the New Wave movement of the 1960s and continued to direct influential work including 2017’s Oscar-nominated documentary “Faces Places,” ...

For a documentary that has won numerous awards and enters the Oscar homestretch a strong contender, Faces Places began modestly enough. “We didn’t aim big at the beginning, we aimed to just work ...