Indie Focus: 'No Wave' films caused a ripple felt in France


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Céline Danhier left a French law practice to shoot the era-rewind movie 'Blank City.

By Mark Olsen

A group of like-minded young people pool their resources, make use of new, inexpensive technology and begin to make movies that capture their particular time and place. From the French New Wave to the recent American micro-budget movement, filmmakers have often come together just so. The documentary "Blank City," which opens in Los Angeles on Friday, explores the independent filmmakers of New York City's downtown scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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