Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
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Apr 12, 2024 · François Truffaut (born February 6, 1932, Paris, France—died October 21, 1984, Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris) was a French film critic, director, and producer whose attacks on established filmmaking techniques both paved the way for and pioneered the movement known as the Nouvelle Vague .
Feb 3, 2022 · François Truffaut’s 20 best films – ranked. Jean-Pierre Léaud as François Truffaut’s alter ego Antoine Doinel in Stolen Kisses. Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/Alamy. As Jules et Jim gets a re ...
Mini Bio. French director François Truffaut began to assiduously go to the movies at age seven. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who became his protector.
Feb 6, 2012 · François Truffaut: All in the Family. Today would have been François Truffaut’s eightieth birthday; he was born on Feb. 6, 1932, and he died at fifty-two-years-old, on Oct. 21, 1984, during a ...
Nov 5, 1984 · Luckily for Truffaut, the great film critic André Bazin saw in the layabout a ferocious intelligence begging to be channeled. By his early 20s, Truffaut the critic was trumpeting the cause of ...
François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry.
François Roland Truffaut ( UK: / ˈtruːfoʊ, ˈtrʊ -/ TROO-foh, TRUU-, US: / truːˈfoʊ / troo-FOH; French: [ fʁɑ̃swa ʁɔlɑ̃ tʁyfo]; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave.
