new wave

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Bohm, who died last year at 86, was a highly respected film writer, actor and academic, a veteran of Germany’s New Wave.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

"I think rap is getting gentrified," he told New Wave magazine.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

She also inspired French New Wave directors like Jean-Luc Godard, who chose her to star in what would become one of his most critically acclaimed films, “Contempt.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

There’s some nostalgia involved, sure, tied up with memories of dancing with your goth girlfriends at New Wave Dance Night, but all three of those songs on a random Friday in Ohio were total steamrollers.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2025

I tell him I mostly like indie and New Wave, but he doesn’t know what those are, and they’re hard to explain in Spanish.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez