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FILM
HUFFINGTON
09.30.12
PHOTO
CLOCKWISE
OR ILLUSTRATION
FROM TOP LEFT:
CREDIT
EVERETT
TK COLLECTION; ORION/COURTESY EVERETT COLLECTION; MARY EVANS/
SNC / LES PRODUCTIONS GEORGES DE BEAUREGARD / RONALD GRANT/EVERETT COLLECTION
Jean-Paul
Belmondo, Jean
Seberg (left) and
Valerie Kaprisky
(bottom) star
in Jean-Luc
Godard’s first
feature film.
1960s
BREATHLESS
1960
With the arrival of the
60s came films like
Godard’s Breathless
that revolutionized the
genre. This New Wave
French film has all the
crime-heavy moral
apathy of classic noir,
but it liberated itself and
subsequent films from the
rules, helping usher in the
myriad films that would
be filed under “neo noir.”
RELATED:
UNDERWORLD U.S.A. (1961),
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
(1962), SHOCK CORRIDOR
(1963), THE KILLERS (1964)