FILM HISTORY AUDIO Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut (Aug/1962)
Listen to 12 Hours of François Truffaut Interviewing Alfred Hitchcock
French-English – simultaneous translation – 25 parts – each about 25 mins.
This link is the only one I could get to work:
Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut (Aug/1962)
More
The Hitchcock Wiki homepage
The Hitchcock Report
– blog about Alfred Hitchcock: his movies, television series, books and more.
FILM TRUFFAUT Love on the Run: The Films of François Truffaut
Love on the Run: The Films of François Truffaut
from: Not Coming to a Theater near You
♦ Short intro ♦ film chronology (just name and date) ♦ Each film in listing links to short review
FILM TRUFFAUT Le Dernier Métro [1980] – Daxiat is Laubreaux
The Last metro: François Truffaut, director
By
Mirella Jona Affron
Google Book
The drama of fallen France: reading la comédie sans tickets
By
Kenneth Krauss
Google Book
also:
Occupied Minds – French culture under Nazi rule remained surprisingly vibrant
Robert O Paxton, Bookforum, June/July/Aug 2009
FILM TRUFFAUT The Origins and Uses of Love in the Cinema of François Truffaut
The Origins and Uses of Love in the Cinema of François Truffaut
by
Mark Robert Harris, September 1992
An MA Thesis.
Well, yes. All sorts of little bits and pieces in there.
FILM When Truffaut met Godard
When Truffaut met Godard
By
Tobias Grey
Financial Times, 21 January, 2011
FILM DIRECTOR TRUFFAUT ~ ~ 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984 ~ ~ ” Le Cinema Règne” ~
Or perhaps as Truffault might have preferred:
Perhaps as we write, speak, play with images and ideas about Truffaut, M. Godard will be playing with the Truffault Google Doodle as well:
François Truffaut’s Google doodle is a modern memento mori
Google’s Doodle for 6 February 2013 – Truffaut would have been 80. Fun to imagine what it would be like to compare the filmography of Truffaut and Godard, both alive today. Would they have made friends again?
FILM GODARD/TRUFFAUT ~ Reviews of Richard Brody’s Everything is cinema
Reviews of Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody [2008]
Kinbrody and the Ceejays: Richard Brody’s Everything Is Cinema
By Bill Krohn in cinemascope
Contempt:
A Review of Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008
by Adrian Martin
A Girl and a Gun
By Stephanie Zacharek, NYT, 13 July 2008
Everything Is Cinema and Criticism Is Nothing
Ed Howard, blog : Only the Cinema, 2 August 2008
Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard
Andrew Schenker, blog : The Cine File, 16 June 2009
Several notes on Brody’s Godard biography…
which works from Martin’s article
FILM THEORY Francois Truffaut & Auteur Theory
Francois Truffaut & Auteur Theory
from Notes on Short film , which has done a set on auteur theory.
There is a link at the bottom to :
Truffaut’s manifesto: La Politique des Auteurs by Harry Tuttle
and the whole manifesto first published in Cahiers du Cinema in January 1954 translated into English:
A Certain Tendency of French Cinema
at My Gleanings.
The author of My Gleanings has created a bespoke blog that deals with A Certain Tendency, titled:
“The Bernanos Letter”: an inquiry into Francois Truffaut’s writing of A Certain Tendency
FILM-MAKER SCREENWRITER Suzanne Schiffman
Godard, Schiffman, Truffaut on set of Farenheit 451 [1966]. She is credited as assistant to the director.
Obits: Guardian and Independent
Les Archives de script de Suzanne Schiffman : Godard au travail dans Pierrot le Fou
By Núria Aidelman
Facsimiles of typed and handwritten scripts and notes.
The French new wave: an artistic school By Michel Marie, Richard John Neupert [GoogleBook]
p. 77
FILM {Truffault – Léaud – Godard}
“The fictional character Antoine Doinel is, therefore, a mixture of two real people, François Truffaut and Jean-Pierre Leaud”.
Francois Truffaut
source:Francois Truffaut by Juan Carlos [Senses of Cinema]
Anthea Hall wrote an article on French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, A man lost in a celluloid identity, in The Sunday Telegraph (17 January, 1991) in which she examined how ‘Truffault had created an entire screen persona for Leaud..’. So far there is no evidence of an online version of this article, which is a pity. It could form a companion piece to several essays on Léaud/Truffault such as Philippa Hawker’s, Jean-Pierre Léaud:Unbearable Lightness [Senses of Cinema] and Because of Tenderness: Thoughts on the Performance of
Jean-Pierre Léaud by Rhys Graham [Senses of Cinema]
Here, the screen test Léaud did as a 14 year-old for Les Quatre Cent Coups.
FILM Finger pointing
In Lonesome Jim [2205] directed by Steve Buscemi, starring Casey Affleck and Liv Tyler (watch it once/ forget it), Jim’s drug-dealing uncle tells Jim:
Because when you point a finger at somebody else, you’re pointing three at yourself and a thumb at the sky.
Admit it you tried it out and saw no thumb pointing to the sky.
There are plenty of fingers pointing on the web, but not much finger-pointing in films.
There is the finger pointing of Antoine Doinel in Truffaut’s films and other characters played by Jean-Pierre Leaud, for example Alexandre in La Maman et la Putain (The Mother and the Whore), dir. Jean Eustache, 1973, and Leaud in Truffaut’s, La Nuit Américaine [1973] (Day for Night).
Real pointing usually includes thumb in the same direction as the index finger, or thumb holding the folded second finger and pretty much pointing the same the direction as the finger. Thumb to the sky tells a good story but it’s shooting.
Thomas Tallis on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week talking about his latest book, Michelangelo’s Finger. Here a brief explanation.
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I’ve also got a thing about the way electric torches are used in film. Why do they always hold them up in ‘raised fist salute’ instead of the more natural ‘watering the garden with a hose’ style? Head and shoulders framing. Medium shot fine. Close-up: torch can’t be seen.
FILM TRUFFAUT His Myspace page
You’d expect a man like that with the vision and energy for film to find a way to tap into the social networks beyond the grave!
Here Truffault’s Myspace page, which is full of interesting stuff produced by Carletto di San Giovanni, whose own myspace is pretty fulsome too.
FILM Film as an act of Love {by Sukhdev Sanhu}
Film as an act of Love
by Sukhdev Sandhu
Fifty years ago, François Truffaut’s Quatre cents coups
heralded a revolution in cinema. Sukhdev Sandhu salutes
a modern classic
NewStatesman 2 April 2009
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