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The film did well enough to encourage Corman to produce another film, the racing-car thriller The Fast and the Furious (1955), directed by its star, John Ireland, and co-starring Dorothy Malone. Decades later, producer Neal H. Moritz and Universal Pictures licensed the title for the 2001 film, The Fast and the Furious , which eventually spawned ...
Fahrenheit 451 was to be one of François Truffaut's biggest critical and commercial failures and was a film which the director was keen to forget. Today, the film is held in somewhat higher esteem and now rates as a minor classic of the science-fiction genre. Paradoxically, whilst it is Truffaut's best-known film, it is the one entry in his ...
Shoot the Piano Player ( French: Tirez sur le pianiste; UK title: Shoot the Pianist) is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film directed by François Truffaut that stars Charles Aznavour as the titular pianist with Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, and Michèle Mercier as the three women in his life. It is based on the novel Down There by David ...
Aug 28, 2016 · The book also sheds light on a lot of details that I wasn't familiar with. I knew that The 400 Blows was semi-autobiographical, but Truffaut's own upbringing was actually worse than it looks in the film. And Antoine Doinel was actually a composite of Truffaut, Truffaut's best friend, Robert Lachenay, and the actor who played Doinel, Jean-Pierre ...
The final shot of Les 400 coups is the most powerful, ambiguous and intriguing of all Truffaut's films. A homage to Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika (1953), the freeze-framed close-up of Antoine Doinel standing alone and lost against a desolate seascape suggest many things. It provides a powerful visual metaphor for the solitariness of the ...
Feb 6, 2018 · Truffaut’s very first film, The 400 Blows, can be understood as autobiographical in a much broader sense than just being about its maker’s life. The much-lauded film feels like a way for its director to examine his own values, to look deep inside himself past the facts of his youth, past the aesthetics he hopes to convey and to what matters ...
