French New WaveThe directors of the French New Wave were the original film geeks a collection of celluloid crazed cinphiles with a background in film criticism and a love for American auteurs. Having spent countless hours slumped in Parisian cinmathques, they armed themselves with handheld cameras, rejected conventions, and successfully moved movies out of the studios and on to the streets at the end of the 1950s. By the mid 1960s, the likes of Jean Luc Godard,