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Made during the period of François Truffaut’s fascination with Alfred Hitchcock, the French auteur’s La mariée était en noir (The Bride Wore Black, 1968) looks to the master of suspense for inspiration whilst s...

François Truffaut’s second feature film after his career-defining debut Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows, 1959), Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player, 1960) is a cheerfully ramshackle affair, alte...

“As I saw it, the essential task in this was not to do the directing, but to attend to the child.” – François Truffaut, introduction to The Wild Child screenplay Made halfway through the director’s career, L’e...

Arguably one of the most enduring images in the cinema of François Truffaut is the freeze frame that concludes his first feature-length film, Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows, 1959). Following an escape fr...

Francois Truffaut's testament on the filmmaking process. This article evaluates the film's standing amongst the many film-with-a-film themed works.

To mark the 20th anniversary of Truffaut's death, we present this re-appraisal of one of his finest and most underrated films.

b. February 6, 1932, Paris, France d. October 21, 1984, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France translated by Tristan Vasquez filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Truffaut was cinema It ...

 “I lie... but only once in a while. At times, if I told the truth they wouldn’t believe me. So I tell lies.” - Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), Les Quatre cents coups In the first scenes of François Truff...

b. November 15, 1967, Paris, France filmography bibliography web resources Occasionally referred to as the enfant terrible of French cinema, François Ozon has in but a few years acquired a solid reputat...

An appreciation of Truffaut the auteur, and especially of his debut film, which launched the career of Jean-Pierre Léaud.

Pedro Blas Gonzalez discusses Ray Bradbury’s novel and François Truffaut’s 1966 film in equal measure, and argues that as “studies of a type of human temperament that revolves around an anti-humanism that prides itself in destruction” they remain as prescient as ever.

Is the arrival of a cinematic New Wave first detected at a film festival? There are few earlier places for the public to notice – between the breaks, curves, and depths – the ripple beneath the surface of the s...

First, a bit of news from the front. Those who have been following some of the local drama outlined in my last dispatch from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival know that this year’s edition is the first in ...

A note to the audience about to watch L’Amour fou, the 1969 film directed by Jacques Rivette: the movie is over four hours long. Be prepared – find a soft seat, stock up on food and drink. Give your companion a...

In his influential 1966 new wave film Masculin féminin (Masculine Feminine), Jean-Luc Godard defined a generation of French adolescents as “the children of Marx and Coca Cola.” Capturing the tension between the...

“Make everybody see/in order to fight the powers that be…”  - Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” (1989) “And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.” - Eric Liddell, Chariot...

b. April 5, 1942, Monmouthshire, Wales P is for Peter. G is for Greenaway. – Peter Greenaway was born in Newport, Wales in 1942. His father was a builder’s merchant and ornithologist. His mother was a teacher....

The first feminist gesture is to say: “OK, they’re looking at me. But I’m looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but how I see them. ― ...

Une Femme est Une Femme (A Woman Is a Woman, 1961) seems like an oddity in the film canon of Jean-Luc Godard. The second feature Godard released after À bout de souffle (Breathless, 1960), it has the cinelitera...

b. 11 September 1968, Nice, France Bertrand Bonello’s movies coalesce into a saga of political disillusionments. His characters are would-be revolutionaries, doomed youths, and indecisive figures paralyzed in ...

ENTRIES IN PART 3: John Edmond William Edwards Geronimo Elortegui Cristóbal Escobar Javier H. Estrada Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Simon Foster Giampiero Frasca Cynthia FuchsFlora Georgiou...

The story begins and ends in the street. The protagonist first emerges from the crowd, wife and children in tow. By film’s end, he has vanished into the churning mass of pedestrians, utterly alone. In between, ...

Out of the worst crime novels I have ever read, Jules Dassin has made the best crime film I have ever seen. For the record, Dassin’s most famous films, The Naked City and Rififi, are among his lesser works. P...

b. September 22, 1946 (birthdate as stated on passport), Guangzhou, China While several filmmakers have become synonymous with specific genres, few have carved out as inimitable and identifiable a niche within...

“Well, to be completely honest, the award’s very nice and all, but I’m only here for the gig. I was ignorant to this whole thing until just a while ago. I’m just amazed by this place, man. It’s so beautiful an...

In a response to The Independent’s obituary of Serge Daney dated June 1992, Louis Skorecki wrote: “He was the only film critic of real value in France in the last 20 years and one of the only original writers ...

I grew up in a provincial city in Northeast China, and before the internet age, my main way of exploring the world outside the city was through television. However, most of the time, the television in our livin...

The turn of the 21st century in Taiwan was marked, as in most countries, by intense fears of the “millennium bug”. This “Y2K” bug would supposedly leave computerised systems incapable of coherently managing dat...

ENTRIES IN PART 6: Josh B Mabe Jonathan Mackris Ioannis Makris Bob Manning Miguel MaríasJack Mcculloch Jamie Mendonça Douglas Messerli Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Josh B Mabe Librarian & F...

Being a French speaker brings many advantages in this world, but few so dear to my heart as being able to read through any release of Trafic, the cinema journal founded by Serge Daney and Jean-Claude Biette in ...

Critic, film theorist and filmmaker, Jean-Louis Comolli died in his adoptive home city of Paris on May 19, 2022, at the age of 80. An editor of Cahiers du Cinéma from 1965 to 1973, his international reputation ...

Translated by Cristina Río López Between 4 and 8 May, in Tui (a Galician town near the Portuguese border) the most recent edition of the documentary festival Play-Doc took place, in a return to the pre-pande...

“Landscapes, faces, and objects ask only for their own beauty, unadorned, free of pathos, like the world seen for the first time.” - Nestor Almendros The well-worn adage of hindsight being 20/20 helps ma...

Is an indistinct photograph a picture of a person at all? Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn’t the indistinct one often exactly what we need? – Ludwig Wittge...

ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Victor Alicea Francisco Algarín Navarro Salvador Amores Geoff Andrew Cinema Antiviral. Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Barker Arta Barzanji Amarsanaa Battulga Mike Bartl...

ENTRIES IN PART 8: Jason Tan Liwag Tomas Trussow Koen Van Daele Noel Vera Peter VerstratenNicholas Vroman David Walsh Jason Philip Wierzba Christopher Witty Barbara Wurm Jason Tan Liwag Alumnus...