PARIS (Reuters) - Claude Chabrol, one of France's most eminent film directors and a pioneer of the influential New Wave style that revolutionised French cinema, died on Sunday at the age of 80.

A detective story of sorts, the film is a virtual talkathon that never catches fire as actors, two to a scene but sometimes three, run streams of dialogue past one another. By Kirk Honeycutt, The ...

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 ...

Lies and Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol – a new 5-disc set will be available on Blu-ray February 22nd from Arrow Video Too often overlooked and undervalued, Claude Chabrol was the first of the ...

It may not be as famous an art-cinema pairing as Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina, Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina or Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti, but the collaborative work of ...

Claude Chabrol lasted almost as long making chilly thrillers beloved by the French public but distrusted by the academy, steeped in Lang and Hitchcock, but most of all Georges Simenon. He was ...

"Claude Chabrol's Tales of Deceit" could scarcely be a more redundant title for Kimstim's five-disc sampler -- for decades, the prolific French director has been turning out elegant deceptions of a ...

ROME -- The 24th Turin Film Festival gets underway today with a lineup that includes the in-competition international premiere of Todd Rohal's "The Guatemalan Handshake," a series of horror, western ...

Claude Chabrol was one of the original instigators of the French New Wave. Like Godard, Truffaut and Rohmer, he started as a film critic. He went on to make thoughtfully successful films — often ...