A Truffaut Notebook 9780773597983
An unconventional and deeply engaging introduction to a major figure in modern film.
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English Pages [353] Year 2015
Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
The Films of François Truffaut
Chronology
Why Truffaut?
In His Own Words I
Roland Lévy and Roland Truffaut
Early Films: François and Sam
The Godfather: André Bazin (1918–1958)
1 January 1954: “A Certain Tendency in French Cinema”
The Mischief Makers (1957): Some Boys and a Girl on a Bicycle
Films Truffaut Didn’t Make I
Some Titles for The 400 Blows (1959)
Making Films Together: A Letter to the Cast and Crew of The Last Metro (21 January 1980)
The 400 Blows: A Life on Film
Jean-Pierre Léaud with Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Bernardo Bertolucci
Robert Lachenay (1930–2005): The Best Friend and the Ancillary Life
Sacha Guitry (1885–1957): Le Roman d’un tricheur and The 400 Blows
Shoot the Piano Player (1960): All You Need Is Love
Shoot the Piano Player and a Debt to the Past
Truffaut’s Breathless and Jean-Luc Godard’s
A Posthumous Questionnaire (January 2015)
Truffaut in His Letters
Jules and Jim (1961): When We Speak of Freedom and Love and Death
Eric Rohmer’s La Collectionneuse (1967) and Jules and Jim
Julian Barnes’s Talking It Over (1991) and Jules and Jim
Salman Rushdie’s The Ground beneath Her Feet (1999) and Jules and Jim
Truffaut in and out of His Time
Carlos Saura on The Soft Skin (1964), Obliquely
The Auteur and the Empty Room
Meeting Jeanne Moreau in Venice
Truffaut Looks back to Godard: Fahrenheit 451 (1966) and Alphaville (1965)
Fahrenheit 451 and Truffaut’s English
The Bride Wore Black (1967)
Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, and Truffaut
Stolen Kisses (1968): A Debt to Marcel Proust or Anatole France
David Thomson’s Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Week-end (1967), The Wild Child (1969): A Dialogue?
Maurice Pialat’s Wild Child: L’Enfance nue (1968)
Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry (1997) and Antoine Doinel
Patrice Leconte’s The Girl on the Bridge (1999)
“François, My Boy” and “Mr Hitchcock”
Truffaut’s Typewriters
The Ending of Two English Girls (1971)
Two English Girls, Agora (2009), and Seeing Red on the Screen
Truffaut, Godard, and Timbres
Truffaut’s Afterlife: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Johnny Guitar (1954): Bad Faith in Truffaut and David Thomson
A Title Quiz
Creativity and Accidents
Day for Night (1973): The Family Movie
Day for Night, Wes Anderson, and American Express
8 1/2 (1963), Day for Night (1973), Stardust Memories (1980), Nine (2009)
Pauline kael, Wim Wenders, and Truffaut
Truffaut, Adam Zagajewski, and the Fate of Spirit
Truffaut in The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Truffaut and Paul Léautaud (1872–1956)
Montmartre and “Certification”
The Story of Adèle H. (1975): Truffaut’s Feminism
Truffaut and Deneuve in The Story of Adèle H.
A Dream: The Story of Adèle H. and Elle
Small Change (1976) and Renoir’s The River (1951)
An Aged Man is But a Paltry Thing
Ingmar Bergman, Cavaleur
Fame: Daphne Moon, Niles Crane, and a Truffaut Film
The Man Who Loved Women (1977): Truffaut and Don Juan
João César Monteiro’s A Comédia de Deus (1995): The Man Who Loved Girls
Leslie Caron
Suzanne Schiffman (1929–2001)
Trufard and Godfaut: Resemblances
Balthus (1908–2001)
Film Names: Who Remembers Michel Poiccard and Patricia Franchini?
The Green Room (1978): The Man Who Loved One Woman
A Short History of “Dummies”: Luis Buñuel, Truffaut, and Oskar kokoschka
The Sentence that Sticks
Pauline kael’s Farewell to Truffaut and Godard
Paul Schrader’s Tears
The Last Metro (1980): François Truffaut-Lévy
Subtitles and Voices
Roberto Rossellini (1906–1977): The Italian Godfather
The Woman Next Door (1981): “Neither with you nor without you”
Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant
François and Sam: Some Favourite Films
A Godard Dream (26 June 2011)
Le Journal d’Alphonse: A Doinel Sequel
In His Own Words II
Truffaut’s Afterlife: Amélie (2001)
Antoine de Baecque’s Two in the Wave (2010)
Unfinished Business: Films Truffaut Didn’t Make II
The Grave in Montmartre
Last Words
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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