Francois Truffaut

To Be or not to Be... Hopeful

Graham Milne | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Francois Truffaut, Hope, Writing, Optimism, Margaret Thatcher, Albert Camus, Joseph Kony, Zombie Apocalypse, Cliffs Notes, Criticism, Facebook, William Shakespeare, Books News
Graham Milne

"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim." - Margaret Thatcher (great line regardless of whether yo...

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Jules and Jim -- and Catherine

Patricia Zohn | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Francois Truffaut, Jules and Jim, Jeanne Moreau, Raymond Cauchetier, Henri Soule, Henri Pierre Roche, New Wave Film, Truffaut Jules and Jim, Jeanne Moreau Truffaut, Jules Jim New Wave, French New Wave, Video, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2012-01-23-JJ_2.jpgOn the 50th anniversary of Jules and Jim, a look back at the memorable love triangle -- and on set photographs never before published.

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25 Foreign Films Even Subtitle Haters Should See

John Farr | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Yasujiro Ozu, Francois Truffaut, Abbas Kiarostami, Academy Awards, Arthouse, The Lives of Others, Gael Garcia Bernal, Leo Tolstoy, Best Movies by Farr, War and Peace, Akira Kurosawa, Alfonso Cuaron, Marcello Mastroianni, Florian Henckel Con Donnersmarck, Jean Renoir, Wong Kar Wai, Claudia Cardinale, Federico Fellini, Foreign Films, Louis Malle, Pedro Almodovar, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Tati, Fritz Lang, Subtitles, Zhang Yimou, Satyajit Ray, Ulrich Muhe, Werner Herzog, Anna Magnani, Walter Salles, Best Movies on DVD, Jean Gabin, Best Movies, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Peter Lorre, Klaus Kinski, Entertainment News
John Farr

Reading subtitles is a lot like riding a bicycle. Practice not only makes perfect, soon enough it's second nature so you don't even notice you're doing it. This particularly holds true when you're watching something great.

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Blackberries Off: Ten Essential Movies For Easily Distracted Twenty-Somethings

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, George C. Scott, Digital Media, Francois Truffaut, Bicycle Thieves, Academy Awards, Harper Lee, Eva Marie Saint, All About Eve, Rashomon, Thanksgiving, The 400 Blows, Best Movies by Farr, Akira Kurosawa, Rod Steiger, Brian Dennehy, Robert Duvall, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, George Sanders, Theatre, Duck Soup, Gregory Peck, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Mulligan, Preston Sturges, Matt Richtel, The New York Times, Veronica Lake, Best Movies on DVD, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Vittorio De Sica, Sidney Lumet, Joel Mcrea, 12 Angry Men, Digital Age, The Marx Brothers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marlon Brando, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Bette Davis, Entertainment News
John Farr

What if we only had a month in which to force our young adult offspring to see ten essential movies before they succumbed entirely to short-form digital content? My own personal picks.

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Culture Zohn: The Enduring Magic of Breathless

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Rialto Films, Claude Chabrol, Film Forum, Eric Rohmer, La Boheme, Jean Seberg, Robert Aldrich, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Slideshow, Entertainment News
Patricia Zohn

2010-05-21-outsidepull.jpgJean Seberg's Patricia was everything I wanted to be: stylish, bilingual, alluring, sophisticated, independent -- and deadly.

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When the French Spiced Up Film: Rohmer, Truffaut, Godard and Cahiers Du Cinema

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Film Criticism, Francois Truffaut, French Cinema, Claude Chabrol, Anna Karina, Auteur Theory, France, Jeanne Moreau, Antoine Doinel Series, The 400 Blows, French Culture, Best Movies by Farr, French New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jules Et Jim, Dogma, Cahiers Du Cinema, Foreign Movies, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Oscar Werner, Criterion Collection, Entertainment News
John Farr

Whether or not you personally love their work, it is difficult to dismiss the impact of the French New Wave. To reinforce this strongly held position, here is a pungent mix of Truffaut, Godard and Rohmer.

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Beauty With Substance: The Best Catherine Deneuve Movies By Farr

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Francois Truffaut, Michel Piccoli, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies by Farr, Gerard Depardieu, French Films, Jacques Demy, Marcello Mastroianni, Roger Vadim, Manoel De Oliveira, Catherine Deneuve, Francoise D'orleac, Chiarra Mastroianni, Christmas, Roman Polanski, Family, Entertainment News
John Farr

Now a vigorous 66, Catherine Deneuve remains as busy as ever. While awaiting her next release, why not re-visit some of the seminal titles that made her France's "grande dame" of film.

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Bad Dreams From My Grandfather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Martini Movies, Francois Truffaut, Variety Magazine, On the Beach, Julius Rosenberg, Reagan, James Anderson, Al-Queda, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Los Ultimos Cinco, Enrico Fermi, Charles Bronson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Stepin Fetchit, The Day the World Ended, Wille Zur Macht, Manhattan Project, Emperor Hirohito, Mokusatsu, Taliban, Carl Sagan, Mulholland Highway, Cosmos, William Phipps, Rod Serling, Pearl Harbor, Suzuki Kantaro, Harry Truman, Lord of the Flies, Genesis, Hiroshima, Arch Oboler, Leo Szilard, Klaus Fuchs, Potsdam Decleration, Douglass Macarthur, Nagasaki, Nietzsche, H.G. Welles, The Day After, Stalin, Orson Welles, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Lampkin, Uranium Fission, Fahrenhei 451, Nuclear Holocaust, Lavrentii Beria, Fat Man, Twilight Zone, William Golding, Red Army, Will Smith, Elizabeth Montgomery, Mao Tse-Tung, North Korea, African-American Poetry, 5ive, Schopenhauer, Manchuria, Gyokuon-Hoso, Semipalatinsk, Five, The Late Show, Healthy Living News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.

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Jacqueline Bisset, Actress with Legendary Film Pedigree, Stars in Death in Love Filmed, Set & Opening in NYC

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Surrealism, Trauma, Boaz Yakin, Jacqueline Bisset, Lukas Haas, Josh Lucas, Death in Love, The Night Porter, Paul Newman, Deborah Kerr, John Huston, Murder on the Orient Express, Sophie's Choice, Two for the Road, Casino Royale, David Niven, Day for Night, George Cukor, Albert Finney, John Gielgud, Francois Truffaut, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, New York News
Penelope Andrew

The film is set in New York City in the 1990s. Yakin, a native New Yorker, shot the film in 25 days and financed it himself.

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