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Feb 3, 2022 · As Jules et Jim gets a re-release in time for the 90th anniversary on Sunday of the French director’s birth, we pan across his greatest works. by Peter Bradshaw. Thu 3 Feb 2022 09.00 EST. Last ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Francois Truffaut, French film critic, director, and producer who was a pioneer in the New Wave movement. He was perhaps best known for the Antoine Doinel saga, including The 400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, and Bed & Board.
Les Quatre cents coups was widely acclaimed on its release, winning numerous awards, including the Best Director Award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. The film’s success helped to establish the French New Wave Movement on the world stage and opened the door for other directors to reach a wider audience.
Truffaut's 1973 film Day for Night earned him critical acclaim and several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His other notable films include Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), The Soft Skin (1964), The Wild Child (1970), Two English Girls (1971), The Last ...
- 1955–1984
- Montmartre Cemetery
- 21 October 1984 (aged 52), Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
One year after being banned from Cannes, in 1959, Truffaut won Best Director at the festival for his film, The 400 Blows. Largely autobiographical, the film follows the character Antoine Doinel, a young boy, and his strikingly similar childhood to that of Truffaut.
Feb 6, 2015 · Fahrenheit 451 (1966) The gentlest of the major directors of the French New Wave, François Truffaut made some of the movement's best-loved classics, from Jules et Jim to Day for Night.
For his sophomore film, Truffaut was guided by his love of American pulp fiction. Adapted from a crime novel by David Goodis, Tirez sur le pianiste (1960) is among the director's most evocative and stylish films, an existential poem draped in the stark iconography of American film noir. The censors took exception to the film's violence and ...
