“The French New Wave was born of fused and contradictory devotions to documentary and fiction,” the film critic Richard Brody wrote in The New Yorker in 2015, “by filmmakers obsessed with recording the practical, material, and emotional details of their lives, but doing so in the forms and styles of classic movie mythology.” Among those filmmakers were my great-uncle Louis Malle, Agnès Varda, François Truffaut, and, perhaps most famous of all, Jean-Luc Godard. His 1960 breakthrough Breathless, starring Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo, remains one of the most influential French movies ever made. Its shooting is now the subject of Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, a new feature that pays tribute to that era of cinema. In anticipation of the film, the Paris Theater is presenting a weekly series of Godard’s work, from Breathless to Pierrot le Fou to A Woman is a Woman, all centered on the director’s rise in the 1960s. The series runs through October 31, when Nouvelle Vague opens at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center. —Jeanne Malle