Few directors have retained a greater aura of life and brio than France’s movie-loving auteur Francois Truffaut — whose work is being celebrated in a special film retrospective starting Friday ...

François Truffaut took joy where he could find it. He found it more often than not within the darkness of movie theaters, often playing hooky and sneaking in side doors to see favorite films ...

The determined jollity of Georges Delerue’s saloon piano score, which later opens up to encompass a wide world of romanticism, sets the tone for Francois ... in the movies.” Truffaut’s ...

The new François Truffaut Collection arrives right on time to relieve awards-season exhaustion. The four-film Blu-ray set from Kino, plus three separately released classics, is sorely needed ...

In 1959, François Truffaut premiered his first film, about a Parisian boy playing hooky, and moviemaking hasn’t been the same since. By J. Hoberman One of the most impressive debuts in film ...

And those films would be Jules and Jim, Shoot the Piano Player, Day fr Night and The Last Metro , among the best in the Truffaut canon and highlights in the longtime collaboration between the ...

François Truffaut (1932-1984), once the most influential critic of the French New Wave, became a brilliant, prolific, and uncompromising director, creating 25 films in 25 years. Internationally ...

says he was inspired to draw on his own experiences in his first film by watching François Truffaut’s seminal 1959 film “The 400 Blows.” “I am a graduate of New York University’s Media ...