Tribute to Franois Truffaut. The French New Wave was one of many film movements that sprung up around the world in protest to Hollywood’s monopoly of. I’ve previously analyzed two of his short films, Antoine et Collete and Les Mistons. The theory was born with the French New Wave cinema, from 1958-1962, with a group of French filmmakers headed by Francois Truffaut.
A record of Fran&231 ois Truffauts favourite films. So it seems sadly fitting that when he died of cancer last week, he was a patient at the American Hospital of Paris.Fran&231 ois Truffauts Favourite Films. The French title of Day for Night, the 1973 valentine to film making in which Truffaut plays a director, is La Nuit Américaine. In Truffaut’s pantheon of directors, Hitchcock rubbed shoulders with Jean Renoir, and his own films sizzled with the tension between Hitchcock’s manipulative elegance and Renoir’s sharp-eyed humanism. Six of the 21 features he directed were based on works by American writers, from Cornell Woolrich ( The Bride Wore Black) to Henry James ( The Green Room), yet they were unmistakably French in atmosphere and obsessions. Truffaut’s achievement was to reconcile, with a uniquely canny buoyancy, the polar tugs of these two cultures.
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With these first three features, Truffaut helped provide a new grammar for the international cinema vocabulary. Time could be stretched or collapsed, as in Jules et Jim the narrative could be interrupted for capricious movie references, as in Shoot the Piano Player the film could jettison the neat happy ending for a character frozen in indecision, as in The 400 Blows.
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