When François Truffaut made his feature directorial debut with “The 400 Blows” in 1959, it quickly became an international sensation and the French New Wave’s first smash hit. Along with Jean-Luc ...

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"I only film people who are always active. Even if their activity is strange, weird." The activity François Truffaut talks about here is love. Romantic or filial love. Love as an educational, ...

Dizzying and vital, Jules and Jim has been a rite of passage for many film lovers. “Overwhelmed” is how Robert Stam remembers his first encounter with Truffaut’s 1961 movie depicting a ménage à trois ...

While Tarantino is no fan of the French New Wave legend, he did single out "The Story of Adele H" as a Truffaut film he enjoyed. Say what you will about Quentin Tarantino, but he never backs down from ...

Taking inspiration from an American crime novel by Cornell Woolrich (under the pseudonym William Irish), François Truffaut presents Jeanne Moreau as the eponymous bride. Over the course of the film, ...

François Truffaut (1932-1984), once the most influential critic of the French New Wave, became a brilliant, prolific, and uncompromising director, creating 25 films in 25 years. Internationally ...

A film-within-a-film, Day for Night (referring to the technique of filming night scenes in daytime using special filters) interweaves the diverse components of filmmaking with what happens offscreen.

In 1959, François Truffaut premiered his first film, about a Parisian boy playing hooky, and moviemaking hasn’t been the same since. By J. Hoberman One of the most impressive debuts in film history, ...

Paris-based Carlotta Films, a leading player in the distribution of heritage cinema, is preparing a number of major releases next year, including a retrospective of Pier Paolo Pasolini and a showcase ...