Claude Chabrol, R. I. P.

French Filmmaker Chabrol Dies at 80 - NYTimes.com: "French director Claude Chabrol, one of the founders of the New Wave movement that revolutionized filmmaking in the late 1950s and '60s, died Sunday. He was 80.
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A prolific director, Chabrol made more than 70 films and TV productions during his more than half-century-long career. His first movie, 1958's ''Le Beau Serge'' won him considerable critical acclaim and was widely considered a sort of manifesto for the New Wave, or ''Nouvelle Vague'' movement, which also included directors like Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard."

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.