By ALI NADERZAD - September 12, 2010The man with the pipe is dead. Claude Chabrol, the director of "Violette" and "Le beau Serge" and the author of noirish tightly-wrapped thrillers that had movie-goers on the edge of their seat, has passed on. One of the founding fathers of New Wave Chabrol was, like his contemporaries of that time, a film critic for the Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1970s and ... more >