Film directors tied to the postwar waves that renewed cinema in their countries, including the French New Wave of the late 1950s and 1960s, New German Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, and the New Hollywood era of American directors in the same years. A director belongs here when the cited article names one of these waves in connection with the person. It excludes directors of earlier studio eras and silent cinema, who sit in other groups, and it follows the label the article gives.
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Wikipedia: Francois Truffaut
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Widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave, he came under the tutelage of film critic André Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for the latter's Cahiers du Cinéma, where Truffaut became a proponent of the auteur theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author.
Wikipedia: Werner Herzog
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Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature.
Wikipedia: Stanley Kubrick
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A prominent figure of the New Hollywood era, Kubrick is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers.
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