François Truffaut: Interviews

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Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2008 - 150 pagine
The French New Wave was one of the most seismic events in cinema's history, and among its contributors François Truffaut (1932-1984) was a key figure. Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, and others, Truffaut helped to form the New Wave's aesthetics and vision and was the first to conceptualize the auteur theory. He made films that reflected his three professed passions: a love of cinema, an interest in the difficulties of male-female relationships, and a fascination with the problems of children.

As this collection of interviews progresses, we follow Truffaut's creative evolution almost as much as we follow his alter-ego Antoine Doinel (actor Jean-Pierre Léaud) through Truffaut's semi-autobiographical series that begins with his first feature The 400 Blows (1959) and ends with Love on the Run (1978).

Truffaut, a perceptive film critic for Cahiers du Cinéma before becoming a director, was able to be objective about his own and other people's films. Always concerned with the process as well as the product of his profession, Truffaut maintained his role as critic and commentator throughout his career and remained equally as good an interviewer as an interviewee.

 

Sommario

Crest of the New Wave
3
Truffauts Bride Wore Black
16
Life Style of Homo Cinematicus
33
The Story of the Degradation of Love by Passion
48
A Wild Boy Civilized
75
Truffaut in London
90
François T
114
Twenty Years After
128
How Truffauts The Last Metro Reflects Occupied Paris
142
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Ronald Bergan was author of several books on film, including biographies of directors Francis Ford Coppola, Jean Renoir, Sergei Eisenstein, and the Coen brothers.

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