François Truffaut

François Truffaut

François Roland Truffaut (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 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. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five films. Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Truffaut was one of the most influential figures of the French New Wave, inspiring directors such as Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson.

On screen

  • Determination
  • Postface à l’Atalante
  • Being Bo Widerberg
  • François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
  • Godard Cinema
  • Godard by Godard
  • Passion Fanny Ardant
  • Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
  • Deneuve, la reine Catherine
  • Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte
  • Sous le soleil de Pialat
  • Jim Morrison: The End
  • Morceaux de Cannes
  • Françoise Dorléac, from The Man from Rio to The Young Girls of Rochefort
  • François Truffaut: Des films d'amour !
  • Les secrets de François Truffaut
  • André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
  • When Hitchcock met O'Casey
  • Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
  • Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
  • Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
  • John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood
  • Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
  • Vadim Mister Cool
  • Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman
  • François Truffaut l'insoumis
  • Ain't Misbehavin
  • Two in the Wave
  • Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
  • Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
  • Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
  • Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
  • Heart of the Festival
  • Léaud l'unique
  • Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
  • Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
  • François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death
  • François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child
  • The World of Jacques Demy
  • The Secret of the Wild Child
  • François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
  • Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
  • The Green Room
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • The Man Who Loved Women
  • François Truffaut
  • Small Change
  • The Story of Adèle H.
  • I'm a Stranger Here Myself
  • Day for Night
  • A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
  • Two English Girls
  • Bed and Board
  • The Wild Child
  • Langlois
  • Cinéastes de notre temps : François Truffaut : Dix ans, dix films
  • Carl Th. Dreyer
  • Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit
  • La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
  • The Soft Skin
  • Take It All
  • Portrait of François Truffaut
  • The Army Game
  • The 400 Blows
  • The Kreutzer Sonata
  • Fool’s Mate

Behind the camera

  • Their First Films
  • The Little Thief
  • Confidentially Yours
  • The Woman Next Door
  • The Last Metro
  • Love on the Run
  • The Green Room
  • The Man Who Loved Women
  • Small Change
  • The Story of Adèle H.
  • Day for Night
  • A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
  • Two English Girls
  • Bed and Board
  • The Wild Child
  • Mississippi Mermaid
  • Stolen Kisses
  • The Bride Wore Black
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • The Soft Skin
  • Mata Hari, Agent H21
  • Antoine and Colette
  • Jules and Jim
  • Love at Twenty
  • A Swelled Head
  • A Story of Water
  • Shoot the Piano Player
  • Breathless
  • The Army Game
  • The 400 Blows
  • The Overworked
  • The Mischief Makers

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