François Truffaut : interviews / edited by Ronald Bergan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Truffaut, François.

Contributor:

Bergan, Ronald.

Series:

Conversations with filmmakers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truffaut, François--Interviews.

Truffaut, François.

Motion picture producers and directors--France--Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors.

France.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 150 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2008]

Summary:

The French New Wave was one of the most seismic events in cinema's history, and among the movement's contributors Francois Truffaut (1932-1984) was a key figure. Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, and others, Truffaut helped to form the New Wave's aesthetics and vision and was the first to conceptualize the auteur theory. As this collection of interviews progresses, we follow Truffaut's creative evolution almost as much as we follow his alter-ego Antoine Doinel (actor Jean-Pierre Leaud) through Truffaut's semi-autobiographical series that begins with his first feature The 400 Blows (1959) and ends with Love on the Run (1978).

Truffaut, a perceptive film critic for Cahiers du Cinema before becoming a director, was able to be objective about his own and other people's films. Always concerned with the process as well as the product of his/profession, Truffaut maintained his role as critic and commentator throughout his career and was equally as good an interviewer as he was an interviewee.

Contents:

Crest of the New Wave / Louis Marcorelles 3

"It's the Universe of Simenon" / Yvonne Baby 6

Francois Truffaut: Film-Struck Truant / Lee Langley 8

A Problem of Calculating the Dose between the Everyday and the Extraordinary / Yvonne Baby 13

Truffaut's Bride Wore Black / Sight and Sound 16

The Cinema according to Truffaut / Peter Lennon 20

The Bride Wore Black Is a Film of Pure Sentiment / Yvonne Baby 24

The 400 Blows of Francois Truffaut / Gilles Jacob 28

Life Style of Homo Cinematicus / Sanche de Gramont 33

The Story of the Degradation of Love by Passion / Yvonne Baby 48

Truffaut's Tenderness Tames His Wolf Boy / Claude Veillot 52

Francois Truffaut / Charles Thomas Samuels 55

A Wild Boy Civilized / Derek Malcolm 75

If One Doesn't Like to Hear Talk of Love / Yvonne Baby 78

Intensification / Gordon Gow 82

Truffaut in London / Chris Petit, Verina Glaessner 90

Adele H / Gilbert Adair 96

Isabelle A Plays Adele H / Patrick Thevenon 99

Kid Stuff / Joseph McBride, Todd McCarthy 102

Francois T / L' Express 114

Truffaut: Twenty Years After / Don Allen 128

How Truffaut's The Last Metro Reflects Occupied Paris / Annette Insdorf 142.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography: pages [xxvii]-xxxvii.

ISBN:

9781934110133

1934110132

9781934110140

1934110140

OCLC:

141855210