Nouvelle vague

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Nouvelle vague · In the late 1950s young French film critics started making films themselves: cheap, on location and free in form. The music became freer too. For Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Miles Davis improvised the music with his group in December 1957 while the images were projected. Martial Solal wrote jazz for À bout de souffle (1960). Georges Delerue worked for François Truffaut, on Jules et Jim among others, and for Jean-Luc Godard. His sad string theme interrupts Le mépris (1963) again and again. With Jacques Demy, Michel Legrand made Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964), a film in which all the dialogue is sung.

Listening

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  Générique · Miles Davis, 1958
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  Thème de Camille · Georges Delerue, 1963
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  Les parapluies de Cherbourg · Michel Legrand, 1964

In School of Rock

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• Film Music Map^NL Map
• Mixtape 2: Youth Cultures 1950-1980^NL Reader
• The Dream Factory: Film Reel 3^NL Reader
• The Dream Factory: Film Reel 4^NL Reader

See also

• Francis Lai
• French poetic realism and Les Six
• Jazz in film
• Eastern European New Waves
• European arthouse and auteur scores
• Japanese New Wave and arthouse