François Truffaut

A Movie for every Director (part. 2) (100 person items)

"Les quatre cents coups (1959) "

The Idiot's Guide To Famous (Classic) Filmmakers (85 person items)

" Random Facts: Grew up watching the films of John Ford, Howard Hawks, Nicholas Ray and Alfred Hitchcock. Wrote for Cahiers Du Cinema, along with Godard and other New Wave darlings. He was a skilled film critic and journalist before he decided to become a director. His films are much more sensitive and emotional than Godard's work. Antoine Doinel was Truffaut's alter ego, and he used Jean-Pierre Leaud to represent the character in a series of films: Les Quatre cents coups, Antoine et"

Premature Deaths (Actors) (124 person items)

" Died: October 21, 1984 (aged 52) Cause of death: Brain tumor "

W/D/A (Writer/Director/Actor) (39 person items)

" - The Wild Child (L'enfant sauvage) (1970) - Day for Night (La nuit américaine) (1973) - The Green Room (La chambre verte) (1978) "

Favorite Directors' Quotes (27 person items)

""The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.""

Matthew Takes on the Pantheon of Important Directo (40 person items)

"French master"

Favorite Filmmakers (53 person items)

" Is the cinema more important than life?I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema.I am not at all interested in anything in between. Filmography He once said Night and Fog is the greatest film. The effective war film is often the one in which the action begins after the war, when there is nothing but ruins and desolation everywhere: Rossellini’s Germany Year Zero (1947) and, above all, Alain Resnais’ Nuit et brouillard, the greatest film ever "

Directors on Directors (33 person items)

"Hitchcock and Rossellini Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings. You can listen to the Hitchcock Truffaut interviews here. In some of my films I’ve tried to follow a single character simply and honestly in an almost documentary manner, and I owe this method to Rossellini. Aside from Vigo, Rossellini is the only filmmaker who has filmed adolescence without sentimentality and The 400 Blows owes a great deal to Germany Year Zero. (The F"

Outstanding Work (26 person items)

" Fahrenheit 451 (1966)"

A Q U A R I U S ♒ (17 person items)

"February 6, 1932"