Hindu (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
DHARWAD: The Chitra Film Society, Dharwad, will be screening two French films by Francois Truffaut at the Srijana auditorium on the Karnataka College campus here on October 11 and 12. Both the films are directed by French filmmaker Francois ...
Filmjourney.org (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Count me impressed. I was just scanning the PDF of the Nuart Theatre’s fall/winter Movie Guide and was amazed to see the announcement of new 35mm prints of Charlie Chaplin’s phenomenal Monsieur Verdoux (1947) and François Truffaut’s The Wild Child (1970). Looking closer, I discovered that both are being distributed by a new company [...]
photocase.com (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Title: Fußstapfen User: FGS Description: Aufgenommen in Bansin an einem kühlen Frühlingstag Man kann niemanden überholen, wenn man in seine Fußstapfen tritt. (Francois Truffaut 06.02.1932 - 21.10.1984)
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Alfred Hitchcock, in conversation with François Truffaut, invented a term for a device around which an entire plot revolves: "the MacGuffin". A valuable painting by a great artist makes an excellent MacGuffin for a novel. Have that picture lost or stolen, and you've got a chase for several million quid's worth of loot, and an attractive bit of culture.
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
By Chris Anthony Diaz [ Shoot The Piano Player is now playing through Thursday, September 11th at Manhattan's Film Forum. Click here for more information. ] Why is François Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player (1960) timeless? Because Truffaut had the foresight to not film a straight pastiche of David Goodis’ novel Down There —the resulting film even influenced then-editor Barry Gifford to choose Truffaut’s...
Creative Think (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
For the past two weeks, I've watched eleven films by the delightful French director François Truffaut. Viewing Truffaut's work has been a nice antidote to today's cinematic fare of bloated and insensitive turkeys. (For my other marathons, see Kubrick, Bergman, Kurosawa, Antonioni, Russian, and Buñuel). Truffaut (1932-1984) was at the center of film's "French New Wave" in the 1950s and 1960s. Truffaut...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Intricate goings-on in sunny Barcelona WOODY ALLEN’S 39th film, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”, is being described as a return to form after three not very good years. In this romantic comedy, set in Barcelona, tragedy hovers delicately, as it did in the film’s cinematic precursor, Francois Truffaut’s “Jules et Jim” made more than 40 years ago. Like his mentor, Mr Allen starts off with a Mutt and Jeff...
Pakistan News (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
New Delhi, (IANS) Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Francois Truffaut, Federico Fellini - they were exclusive names in the domains of discerning and cerebral moviegoers across India until a few years ago. Not any more.Earlier, the iconic movies made by them were either shown in film festivals organised by small groups or sold in video formats [...]
India eNews (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Francois Truffaut, Federico Fellini - they were exclusive names in the domains of discerning and cerebral moviegoers across India until a few years ago. Not any more.
Twitch (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
One of the interesting things about David Goodis’s career, Steve Seid mentioned by way of introduction to François Truffaut’s Tirez sur le pianiste ( Shoot the Piano Player , 1960) , is that—even though Goodis’s first connection to filmmaking occurred in 1947 with Dark Passage and The Unfaithful —attempts to adapt his work have continued to the present day; Seid recently met someone working with Goodis’s...
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
A new weekly series designed to highlight iconic shots from some of my favorite films.
MovingPictureBlog (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
As a neglected child growing up in Paris of the 1940s, François Truffaut took joy where he could find it. He found it more often than not within the darkness of movie theaters, often playing hooky and sneaking in side doors to see favorite films again and again. Time went by and he would sit ever closer to the screen, as though wishing to literally lose himself inside the images that promised a better,...
Celebrity gossip Celebrity news (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
Currently Meg Ryan is in Italy. No Meg is not there for any enjoyment. She is there for some specific reason. She was here to attend the 38th Giffoni Film Festival in Giffoni, Italy on Thursday (July 24).Meg Ryan did not just attend this prestigious but also received the Francois Truffaut Award at the local [...]
Celebrity Gossip Oops (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
Enjoying a trip away from her home in the States, Meg Ryan was on hand at the 38th Giffoni Film Festival in Giffoni, Italy on Thursday (July 24). The “Sleepless In Seattle” sweetheart received the Francois Truffaut Award at the local festival focusing on films for young people, which wraps up on Saturday.
frogsmoke.com (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
French actress and four-time César award-winner Nathalie Baye turns 57 today. She rose to fame playing the ’script girl’ in La Nuit américaine (Day for Night, 1974) by François Truffaut. Her 4 year relationship with Johnny Hallyday made them a leading celebrity couple and their daughter Laura is now actress Laura Smet. Baye has recently [...]
