Andr Bazin (1918-58) is credited with being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. Among those who came under his tutelage were four who would go on to become the most renowned directors of the postwar French cinema: Fran ois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, and Claude Chabrol.Volume 2 of The Catholic Critic: Andr Bazin on Hollywood Movies, 1945-1958 contains, for the first time in English, much of Bazin's penetrating writing on...