*A Simple Story* (*Une simple histoire*). 1959. France. Written and directed by Marcel Hanoun. Distributed by gme.

The French New Wave of the 1950s and ’60s radically transformed the language of cinema. While its leading figures are widely recognized—over the years, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol, Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, Jacques Demy, and Chris Marker have all had retrospectives at MoMA and beyond—there were many other New Wave filmmakers whose work has remained largely unsung.

*La première nuit*. 1958. France. Directed by Georges Franju

This major retrospective of more than 40 features and shorts allows the discovery of the most important among them, drawing upon the dictionary of 162 new filmmakers that appeared in the December 1962 issue of Cahiers du cinéma, including films by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Philippe Garrel, Georges Franju, and Marcel Hanoun, each of whom is represented by films distributed by GME.

*Les enfants désaccordés*. 1964. France. Written and directed by Philippe Garrel

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Films by Philippe Garrel, Straub-Huillet, Hanoun, & Franju Screening in MoMA's Series of Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave