The least substantial movie in Lies & Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol, Arrow Video’s tribute to the late, great French New Wave director, also happens to best embody the set’s spirit: In ...

A return to form after some recent misfires, Claude Chabrol’s “The Flower of Evil” is good nasty fun, rich in ideas and veined with perverse humor. The 50th feature from this prime mover of the ...

The French New Wave is justly famous for many things, many different cultural geysers and tidal fluctuations and siroccos. But when we talk about the law firm of Godard Truffaut Rivette Chabrol ...

Quietly and meticulously for just over 50 years, Claude Chabrol turned out a consistent body of work, cool in affect, smooth in style, anatomizing with scientific precision the disastrous desires and ...

Claude Chabrol, one of the giants of French and international cinema, died on September 12, at the age of 80. To the end of his life, he kept to a daunting work regimen, directing an average of a film ...

“I’m really enjoying this. They’re so bad in America. They rinse them in fresh water and it kills the taste.” For five decades Claude Chabrol navigated the unpredictable waters of Cinema, leaving in ...

Ambiguity and understatement are the watchwords when it comes to the titles collected in Arrow’s box set Twisting the Knife: Four Films by Claude Chabrol. Though they often take the form of a crime ...

French filmmaker Claude Chabrol, one of the productive forefathers of the French New Wave, died Sunday in Paris. He was 80 and had been hospitalized with “severe anemia,” according to the New York ...

“Right from the start,” wrote the young critic in a 1955 Cahiers du Cinéma review, “Rear Window does present an immediate focus of interest that puts it on a higher plane than the majority of [Alfred ...