Francois Truffaut News

Dir. Francois Truffaut . Although it has been overrated by the director's cultists, Truffaut's second film, which stars sad-eyed Charles Aznavour as a pianist with a past, is a freer work than The 400 Blows .

Lead and character player of French and international features who made her cinematic debut--as did director Francois Truffaut--with the 1957 short, "The Mischief Makers". Lafont went on to star in several films of the.... Lead and character player of French and international features who made her cinematic debut--as did director Francois ...

In the 1960s, almost every major national cinema seemed to be in the throes of revolution.

Tsai Ming-liang pays tribute to Francois Truffaut in the first movie made under the Louvre s new filmmaking initiative By Ho Yi STAFF REPORTER Friday, Oct 02, 2009, Page 13 FILM NOTES: FACE DIRECTED BY: Tsai Ming-liang STARRING: Laetitia Casta as Salome, Lee Kang-sheng as Hsiao Kang, Fanny Ardant as film producer, Jean-Pierre Leaud as Antoine ...

On reading this press release I certainly hope that Brownstone Books is stocking up on copies of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 ! If not, you can get it at Amazon.com . Please don't confuse it with the film of the same name by Francois Truffaut or the one by Michael Moore Or if you don't want to buy it, get it out of the library-there should be ...

Jeanne Moreau in the Francois Truffaut classic 'Jules and Jim,' about a doomed love triangle, showing at Symphony Space this weekend.

In Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a military project commander demands to know why Lacombe, the Frenchman in charge, has allowed U.S. civilians to enter the project's secret compound, Lacombe, played by Francois Truffaut replies "Listen to me, Major Walsh, it is an event sociological". District 9 seems to recognize this fact, as ...

In 1955, the year Satyajit Ray's beautiful first feature won the Grand Prix at Cannes, no less a humanist than Francois Truffaut walked out of a screening, declaring, 'I don't want to see a film about Indian peasants.' Time and critical opinion have been much kinder to this family melodrama-derived, like its successors in the Apu trilogy, Aparajito ...

In 1955, the year Satyajit Ray's beautiful first feature won the Grand Prix at Cannes, no less a humanist than Francois Truffaut walked out of a screening, declaring, 'I don't want to see a film about Indian peasants.' Time and critical opinion have been much kinder to this family melodrama-derived, like its successors in the Apu trilogy, Aparajito ...

ANY CINEPHILE will be able cite Francois Truffaut 's Greatest Hits -- "The 400 Blows," "Jules and Jim," "Shoot the Piano Player." But the Truffaut of "The Soft Skin," "Mississippi Mermaid" and "The Bride Wore Black" is lesser known even to art-film buffs.

Oh la la. Summer is always a wonderful time for a Francois Truffaut movie. Here, mon cherie, is the blurbage: At BAM: Fri, Jul 10a 'Sun, Jul 12 at 4, 6:45, 9:30pm Mon, Jul 13a 'Thu, Jul 16 at 6:45, 9:30pm When isolated tobacco farmer Louis meets his mail-order bride Julie , hea TMs unsure this beautiful woman is the same one he has been ...

French director Francois Truffaut is often quoted as saying that it is impossible to make an anti-war movie, as the filming of war will inevitably glamorize the violence by exciting the audience.

Varda is still remarkably spry and productive in her 80s -- witness the triumphant autobiographical documentary "The Beaches of Agnes," one of the best films of this year.

Starting this weekend, Cinematheque Ontario will run a summer-long screening series, Nouvelle Vague: The French New Wave, Then and Now in celebration of the movement's 50th anniversary.

In a few days, summer officially begins. That means large numbers of summer movies - 28 open in July alone.

Francois Truffaut produced, directed and co-wrote this 1962 drama, which became one of the greatest masterpieces of the French New Wave cinematic movement.

A CLASSIC of French cinema gets a 50th anniversary run at Plymouth Arts Centre from Friday.

DHAKA: A five-day film screening begins today in the Alliance FranA aise auditorium, marking 50 years of operation of the French cultural centre in Dhaka.

Image of the Toothaches from Myspace . The school year has ended, and Boston's happenings are becoming few and far between.

Over the past decade Guy Ben-Ner has become known for a series of playful videos which often star the artist and his young children.