Here’s brief scene from François Truffaut’s Day for Night that evokes a love of cinema better and with more economy than any other I can think of. Truffaut (right) plays Ferrand, the director of the film Meet Pamela, and Jean Champion (left) is his producer. As Ferrand receives a package of books about film, he [...]
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François Truffaut’s Day for Night opens on a small, grassy plaza. Immediately, a bus roars by in the foreground; the sound of its engine drowns all others out. The camera picks up a woman and her dog and tracks along with her, pausing at a subway entrance long enough for a man to [...]
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I love François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows. I am convinced it is one of the most affecting movies of all time, and it was influential to boot: along with Breathless, it helped usher in the French New Wave, which genuinely revolutionized cinema. One of the things I love about it is the [...]
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