The French New Wave was one of the most important events in cinema history, and among its contributors was Francois Truffaut (1932-1984). Alongside Jean Luc Goddard, Eric Rohmer, and others, Truffaut helped form the movement's aesthetics and vision. He made films that reflected his three most personal passions - a love of cinema, an interest in the difficulties of male-female relationships, and a fascination of the problems of children.This collection of interviews follows Truffaut's creative evolution from his directorial debut with "The 400 Blows" (1959) to his last feature "Vivement Dimanche!" (1983). It also explores how Truffaut - a perceptive film-critic as well as maker - was just as concerned with the process of film-making as well as the final product, and how that came across in both his writing and his directing.
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Robert Bergan is the author of several books on film-related subjects, including biographies of Francis Ford Coppola, Jean Renoir, and the Coen brothers.
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JUST BEFORE MEETING François Truffaut, whose film The 400 Blows won him the prize for direction at the last Cannes Festival and who is the most typical representative of the movement in the French cinema that has been labeled la nouvelle vague, I was able to learn what two of the most celebrated men in Hollywood thought of his work: they were Gregory Peck and the producer Sam Spiegel (The Bridge on the River Kwai), both on their way through Paris. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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JUST BEFORE MEETING François Truffaut, whose film The 400 Blows won him the prize for direction at the last Cannes Festival and who is the most typical representative of the movement in the French cinema that has been labeled la nouvelle vague, I was able to learn what two of the most celebrated men in Hollywood thought of his work: they were Gregory Peck and the producer Sam Spiegel (The Bridge on the River Kwai), both on their way through Paris. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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