Luc Moullet is a noted filmmaker most often associated with the French New Wave. Moullet began his career as a critic for Cahier du cinema, a French film journal founded in Paris in 1951 by André Bazin, Eric Rohmer, and Jacques Rivette, which served as a training ground for the French New Wave and operated on the promise of cinema for the future. After serving as an assistant to filmmakers Claude Chabrol and Jean Luc Godard, Moullet began directing in the 1960s. He made his feature debut in 1966 with a comedic social essay entitled Brigitte et Brigitte, followed by the thriller Les Contrebandières (The Smugglers, 1967) and the psychedelic western Une aventure de Billy le kid (A Girl is a Gun, 1971). In 2009 the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris mounted a retrospective entitled Luc Moullet: Le Comique en contrebande (Luc Moullet: A Bootleg Comic). His documentaries include: Earth Madness (2009), L’ empire de Médor (1986), Le ventre de l’Amérique (The Belly of America, 1996), and Genesis of a meal (1978).