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Jean-Luc Godard's earth-shaking masterpiece debut "Breathless" turns 55 this year. In spirit, an essential new collection of photographs titled "Raymond Cauchetier's New Wave" comes out this month.  Cauchetier catches candid moments of New Wave stars and filmmakers at their most intimate, from Anouk Aimée titillating in Jacques Demy's first film "Lola" to Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo (the coolest screen couple ever) sharing electric chemistry on the "Breathless" set. These photos will appear in a new exhibit of the 95-year-old photographer's work at London's James Hyman gallery from June 17 to August 18, 2015. See highlights below, and head to Vanity Fair for more. Read More: "Alphaville" Turns 50 -- Why It's Must-See Godard...

Sometimes, people are too cool to ever let their craft truly get out of their system.

That is the case when talking about photographer Raymond Cauchetier, who has now opened his first commercial exhibition. Sure, that would be impressive for anyone, but also note that this exhibit will coincide with his 90th birthday.

A beloved photographer, he is best known for his behind the scenes photos from the sets of films like Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, as well as Francois Truffaut’s Jules and Jim and even the brilliant, but horribly underrated Godard masterpiece, A Woman Is A Woman. He stopped working as a set photographer in 1968, but his work has been called true masterworks of not only photography, but the world in which he worked, The French New Wave.

I’ve seen a lot of his work, through things like the Breathless Criterion release and other releases like that,...

Glimpses of life on set of films such as Lola and Jules et Jim to be displayed at the James Hyman Gallery

His name is hardly known, even in his native France, but for almost 10 years Raymond Cauchetier chronicled one of the most exciting and revolutionary film decades. Now his photographs of the French New Wave are to go on display together for the first time.

It will be London not Paris which exhibits Cauchetier's behind the scenes glimpses of life on the set of films such as Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, Jacques Demy's Lola and Francois Truffaut's Jules et Jim.

The images will be included in a selling exhibition and all are very French. Lots of brooding, flirting, pouting and kissing. They include Jean Seberg looking sultry behind a plume of Chesterfield cigarette smoke; Anouk Aimee living it up in a top hat as the eponymous Nantes cabaret star in Lola,...

The name Raymond Cauchetier probably doesn’t mean much to anybody, but this guy is very special. The ninety year old set photographer chronicled one of the most revolutionary moments in cinema. Dubbed The French New Wave, Cauchetier photographed productions for the cinema gods such as Godard, Truffaut and Jacques Demy. After decades in the industry, he’s getting his first ever exhibition.

From the press release:

“The exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of Godard’s first feature A Bout de Souffle (1960), re-released in cinemas (25 June) and on Blu-ray / DVD (13 September); for which Cauchetier was hired as the on-set photographer. Along with A Bout de Souffle, the exhibition includes images from Godard’s Une Femme est Une Femme (1960), Jacques Rozier’s Adieu Philippine (1960), Jacques Demy’s Lola (1960), starring Anouk Aimée, and Francois Truffaut’s Jules et Jim (1962) with Jeanne Moreau, La Peau Douce (1963) and Baisers Volés (1968).”

Cauchetier recalled the...

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Two trailers bookend my half-a-century of writing professionally about the cinema and bracket the career of the man who is arguably the most influential moviemaker of my lifetime. Fifty years ago this month I dropped into an Oslo cinema while waiting for a midnight train and saw an unforgettable trailer for a French picture. It cut abruptly between a handsome, broken-nosed actor I'd never come across before, giant posters of Humphrey Bogart, and the familiar features of Jean Seberg, whom I knew to be an idol of French cinéastes as the protegee of Otto Preminger. Shot in high contrast monochrome, rapidly edited, interspersed with puzzling statements in white-on-black and black-on-white lettering, it was like no other trailer I'd seen, and I was captivated. Not until my...

James Hyman is a DJ, turntablist and music supervisor who built a name for himself in Europe and around the world by creating a series of mash-up albums combining movie clips, dialogue quotes, and pop songs. Following the release of a James Bond/ 007 mix in June 2004, Hyman mounted his most ambitious project to date, a single-disc masterpiece entitled Pulp Mixin', a dizzying blend of Quentin Tarantino's dialogue and movie music set against the backdrop of the hottest pop music of the day. Not content to relegate his recording to a purely stereoscopic assault, Hyman recently announced that he is currently assembling a feature-length film that will make Tarantino's own genre mash-ups look as complicated as a kid combining two colors of play-doh.

Specifically, Hyman plans to use not only music videos and film clips from the samples he originally employed for his Pulp Mixin' CD, but throw in some new ones as well,...

Just weeks after finalizing his $50 million divorce from Heather Mills, Paul McCartney is making headlines again – this time for an emotional interview about his first wife, Linda, who succumbed to breast cancer 10 years ago. McCartney tells Britain's Sunday Times Magazine he can still recall their first meeting, "probably 40 years [ago], at the London nightclub Bag O' Nails. "There was an immediate attraction between us," he said in the article, which coincides with an exhibition of Linda McCartney's photographs at the James Hyman gallery in central London. His pick-up line? "My name's Paul. What's yours?" McCartney told the paper. "I think she probably recognized me.