The Films in My Life

Humor & Entertainment

Truffaut, François

Movies

Penguin

In his early reviews of American and European films, François Truffaut ignored the artificial boundaries between Hollywood and 'foreign' films and 'A' and 'B' productions. As these articles make clear, what Truffaut prized most was the cinematic 'truth' in those films he admired; he despised the then-current 'literariness' of French cinema. Truffaut calls here for a New Wave in both production and criticism. His unique, idiosyncratic writing style has been carefully preserved in these translations, allowing the reader access to writings that shaped his later film career and changed the face of modern film criticism.

Early Film Criticism of Francois Truffaut

Dixon, Wheeler Winston

Indiana University Press

Letters from each period of Truffaut's life reveal his approach to filmmaking and his relationships with fellow directors, writers, and film critics

Correspondence, 1945-1984

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Book by Truffaut, Francois, Moussy, Marcel

The 400 Blows a film by Francois Truffaut

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

GROVE PRESS

An English version of the filmscript of Truffaut's motion-picture treatment of the obsessive romantic passion of Victor Hugo's younger daughter, with stills from the completed film

The Story of Adele H.: The Complete Script of the Film (An Evergreen Black Cat Book ; B395)

Grove Pr

(Applause Books).  Small Change , shot in the French Provinces, is a story about children. Truffaut has captured the essence of each age group   the verbally precocious three-year-old who pushes the family cat out the window only to follow it nine stories to the ground, the teenage boy yet to experience his first kiss, but hopelessly infatuated with his best friend's mother, the uncooperative eight-year-old daughter of the local policeman who, when left alone as punishment, uses her father's bullhorn to complain to the neighbors she is starving, the brothers who, having insufficient pocket money to buy a stolen compass, cut a younger classmate's hair and borrow his barber money.  Small Change  contains precise and moving descriptions of the various stages of a secure childhood, of the fun and freedom one experiences as a child, but throughout the film, Truffaut makes a stunning comparison with another child who lives in the same town, who attends the same school. He compares the life of Julian, who is hated and abused by his mother, whose mere existence is despised because he is a child. In  Small Change , Truffaut makes an eloquent and traumatic appeal for the rights of children.

SMALL CHANGE.

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Probably the best loved of all Truffaut's films, "Jules et Jim" was an instant success with both the critics and the public when it opened in Paris in 1962. Telling of the friendship between Jules and Jim, and the love affairs they both have with Catherine, the story is set in Paris.

Jules Et Jim

Faber and Faber

Hitchcock

Scott, Helen G.

A Panther Book.

Includes still by courtesy of l'Avant-Scene du Cinema and British film Institute.

Title: JULES AND JIM.

Fry, Nicholas (Translator)

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

Simon&Schuster

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