Director Claude Chabrol, one of the founders of ... published a study of Hitchcock in 1957. “But Chabrol’s films are unmistakably his own,” Thomas said in a 1977 Times profile of the director.

Claude Chabrol died in 2010, leaving behind a legacy of some 64 films in a consistent career that spanned from the birth of the French New Wave through the postmodern millennium. He remained ...

French director Claude Chabrol, one of the founders of the New Wave movement whose films probed the latent malice beneath the placid surface of bourgeois life, died on Sunday. He was 80.

They rinse them in fresh water and it kills the taste.” For five decades Claude Chabrol navigated the unpredictable waters of Cinema, leaving in his wake fifty-five feature films that remain among the ...

At least that’s what Claude Chabrol told me when I met him there in 1998, explaining that this made it the perfect base for a gourmet film director suffering from fibrillation. Chabrol’s ...

French director Claude Chabrol, one of the founders of the New Wave movement whose films probed the latent malice beneath the placid surface of bourgeois life, died on Sunday. He was 80.

“The Flower of Evil,” Claude Chabrol’s 50th film in a 45-year-career, finds the New Wave pioneer in top form. On its inevitably stylish surface this film seems business as usual for ...

French director Claude Chabrol, one of the founders of the New Wave movement whose films probed the latent malice beneath the placid surface of bourgeois life, died on Sunday. He was 80.