The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
By Jonathan Pacheco [ Editor's Note: Originally published at Bohemian Cinema . ] A video essay (my first), exploring the similarities between the ending of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows and the beginning and ending of Jonathan Glazer’s 2004 film, Birth . Based on an old essay of mine, The 400 Births . _________________________________________________ Jonathan Pacheco is a current...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
DVD Video Review: Gary Couzens continues his look at the films of François Truffaut with The Last Metro (Le dernier Métro), a drama set in occupied Paris in 1942 which was the biggest commercial success of the director's career.
Matsie For the Win! (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
oldhollywood : Jeanne Moreau as Catherine in Jules & Jim (1962, dir. Francois Truffaut) Although the film is named for the men, its animating force is Catherine, a creature both utterly timeless (Jules and Jim first see her visage in a photo of a Greek statue) and forever changing: at different points, she plays the roles of Charlie Chaplin and street tough, vamp, and doting mother. Passionate...
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups, 1959) Director: Francois Truffaut By Roderick Heath The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut’s debut film, is a work around which implicit ironies swirl. It looks as much backwards as it does forwards, to...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I'm delighted to introduce a new occasional guest blogger on Boing Boing, Dr. Jacques Vallee, who will contribute posts every so often. In the world of computer science, Jacques is best known for his pioneering database research in the 1960s at Stanford Research Institute and then, during the next decade, for leading the development of the the world's first network-based computer conferencing system...
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Screened November 14 2009 on DVD rip of Video Yesteryear VHS (dubbed in English), purchased on Amazon TSPDT Rank #903 IMDb Wiki Andre Bazin called it “the first and most exemplary psychologically realistic film” in French cinema. Francois Truffaut singled it out as a prime culprit of “le cinema du papa” against which he and other members of [...]
Edward Copeland on Film (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
By Jonathan Pacheco The first time I saw The 400 Blows a couple of years ago, I walked away unimpressed, seeing it as a solid film, but one that was "about" a lot less than most people thought. I credited the film's praise mostly to its relationship with the French New Wave, or to people's infatuation with the heavily autobiographical threads that François Truffaut wove throughout...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Today's Cinematic Birthdays 11/13 1312 Edward III (of Windsor), not the gay one who gets more cinematic treatment (including Derek Jarman's fascinating take ), but his son. This is the one Shakespeare wrote a play about and the one who Mel Gibson implied to be the bastard son of Braveheart William Wallace, thereby giving the finger to history unless Wallace's sperm could survive years past his death....
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
At Edinburgh Filmhouse the other night, I was just seconds too late to photograph a member of staff taking down the poster for CITIZEN KANE, unconscious, it seemed, that she was recreating Francois Truffaut’s dream from LA NUIT AMERICAIN. Posted in FILM Tagged: Citizen Kane, Day For Night, Filmhouse, La Nuit Americain, Truffaut [...]
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
As the FIAF’s Cinema Tuesday series François Truffaut: A Winter Portrait continues this week, they are scheduled to screen one of my favorite films tonight, Truffaut’s The Wild Child . A story about a teacher who makes it his goal to educate a feral child, The Wild Child looks at what exactly it means to be human and how we become who we are (socialization or nature). The teacher...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Jose here bringing you the Monday Monologue. From the moment Erin Brockovich was released, in March of 2000, everyone knew that Julia Roberts would win an Oscar for it. There was nary a review that did not point out how fantastic she was, how she carried the burdens of a dramatic role so well (after practically creating the entire rom-com movement throughout the 90's) and how big her boobs looked....
Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Fifty years ago this month, Jean-Luc Godard was putting the finishing touches on his first feature film: “the story of a young American woman and a Frenchman. Things can’t work out between them because he thinks about death and she doesn’t.” Deriving from a script treatment by Godard’s friend François Truffaut, and released in Paris in March 1960, Breathless was...
MovingPictureBlog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
I have nothing but best wishes and hearty encouragement for the folks organizing the inaugural Cinema Arts Festival Houston , which got some nice coverage today in the Houston Chronicle . But talk about bad timing: The H-Town event takes place directly opposite the Starz Denver Film Festival -- where I'll be doing an on-stage Q&A with (and presenting an Excellence in Acting award to) Hal Holbrook...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
CLASSICAL MUSIC FOR KIDS: Chocolate Chip Chamber Music at Old First Dutch Reformed Church (Seventh Avenue at Carroll in Park Slope). Performances on Saturday morning at 10 and 11:30 AM, and Sunday afternoon at 4. Also at the Brooklyn Public Library (Grand Army Plaza) at 1 PM in the Stevan Dweck auditorium. COMICS: Comic Book Convention with big name artists and fans gather at the first King Con at...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I’ve mentioned a few times on this site how much I adore François Truffaut and his films. In his 52 years with us (he died quite young) Truffaut worked hard to explore what cinema was/is and how it could be better and how it could be something for everyone. He once said “Is cinema more important than life?” and while most people probably don’t think it is, I relate to...
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