"One of the most readable books of movie criticism, and one of the most instructive."--American Film François Truffaut (1932-1984), perhaps the most respected member of the New Wave group of French moviemakers, left a legacy of beloved and influential films that include The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Stolen Kisses, Day for Night, and The Story of Adele H. Equally fascinating is the very large body of film criticism Truffaut wrote over many years for Cahiers du Cinema and other leading film journals. Wonderfully varied, personal, and informal, these reviews all communicate unabashed love for and an enormous excitement about the movies. The Films in My Life is Truffaut's own selection of more than one hundred essays that range widely over the history of film and pay tribute to Truffaut's particular heroes, among them Hitchcock, Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, Cocteau, Bergman, and Buñuel.

The Films in My Life

Biographies & Memoirs

François Truffaut

Arts & Literature

Da Capo Press

The five hundred letters collected here span the whole of Tuffaut's extraordinary career, from the ardent and troubled adolescent to the years of grandest accomplishment in the French cinema. Noteworthy correspondents incude Jean-Luc Goddard, Alfred Hitchcock, Louis Malle, Helen Scott, Eric Rohmer, and lifelong friend Robert Lachenay.

Francois Truffaut: Correspondence, 1945-1984

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

The complete script with more than 50 photos from this film celebrating film-making. Paperback.

Day for Night

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Random House USA Inc

With the characteristic variety of mood and tone evident in his films, these letters document the development of Francois Truffaut from rebellious boy to mature film-maker in the last years of his life. They reveal the warmth, humanity, idealism and sharp wit of a man whose work was his lifelong passion. His correspondents include other celebrated film-makers, such as Alfred Hitchcock and Louis Malle, and there is also a first-hand account of his argument and subsequent break with Jean-Luc Godard.

Letters

Literature & Fiction

Faber and Faber

One is ravished by the density of insights into cinematic questions...Truffaut performed a tour de force of tact in getting this ordinarily guarded man to open up as he had never done before (and never would again)...If the 1967 Hitchcock/Truffaut can now be seen as something of a classic, this revised version is even better. Phillip Lopate The New York Times Book Review

Alfred Hitchcock - A Definitive Study

Helen G. Scott

Touchstone

The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: Autobiographical Screenplays

Simon&Schuster

FranÃ§ois Truffaut (1932-1984), perhaps the most respected member of the New Wave group of French moviemakers, left a legacy of beloved and influential films that include The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Stolen Kisses, Day for Night, and The Story of Adele H. Equally fascinating is the very large body of film criticism Truffaut wrote over many years for Cahiers du Cinema and other leading film journals. Wonderfully varied, personal, and informal, these reviews all communicate unabashed love for and an enormous excitement about the movies. The Films in My Life is Truffautâ€™s own selection of more than one hundred essays that range widely over the history of film and pay tribute to Truffautâ€™s particular heroes, among them Hitchcock, Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, Cocteau, Bergman, and BuÃ±uel.

Films in My Life

Truffaut, Francois; Tr. By Leonard Mayhew, Films In My Life, The

The Films In My Life

Wild Child

Pocket

The classic study of the great director and his films, comprising a series of dialogues between Hitchcock and Truffaut, is fully updated with material on Hitchcock's last years and his final four films

Hitchcock (English and French Edition)

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