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400 BLOWS (CRITERION)
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One of the landmarks of cinema, which introduced the character of Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Leaud, to the world, as the 12-year-old boy left to his own devices in an indifferent adult world. An uncompromising film, winner of innumerable awards. In French with English subtitles. Francois Truffaut---France---1959---97 mins.
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ADV ANTOINE DOINEL- TRUFFAUT
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One of Francois Truffaut's most enduring creations was the indelible Antoine Doinel. Through the course of five films, Truffaut followed the iconic character (played by Jean-Pierre Leaud) from his troubled adolescence through middle age. This five-DVD Criterion Collection edition presents Truffaut's celebrated saga in its entirety. Included are The 400 Blows (1959, 99 mins.), Antoine and Collette (1962, 30 mins.), Stolen Kisses (1968, 91 mins.), Bed and Board (1970, 97 mins.) and Love on the Run (1979, 95 mins.). All films in French with optional English subtitles. Francois Truffaut---France---1959-1979---412 mins.
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BRIDE WORE BLACK
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Francois Truffaut's stylish and suspenseful homage to Hitchcock stars a stone-faced Jeanne Moreau tracking down and killing (each in a unique way) the five men responsible for her husband's accidental death. A very odd and dark film, it contains many masterful stylistic flourishes and is further highlighted by an eerie, atmospheric musical score from Bernard Herrmann. Beautifully photographed by Raoul Coutard. In French with English subtitles. Francois Truffaut---France---1968---107 mins.
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DAY FOR NIGHT
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Truffaut's love poem to the movies and movie-making features Truffaut playing a director who struggles to complete a film while at the same time handling the emotional problems of staff and crew. Funny and bittersweet, Day for Night provides insights into the movie process. Oscar winner for Best Foreign Picture, with Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jacqueline Bisset. In French with Francois Truffaut---France---1973---116 mins.
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ESSENTIAL ART HOUSE: VOLUME V
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From Janus and Criterion comes another set of six masterpieces in scaled-down editions: Brief Encounter, 8 1/2, Floating Weeds, Jules and Jim, Kapo and Loves of a Blonde.
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FAHRENHEIT 451
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Truffaut's first English-language production stars Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. Based on Ray Bradbury's masterpiece about a future without books, Werner plays a fireman in charge of burning books who meets a schoolteacher (Christie) who dares to read. In original English language. Francois Truffaut---France---1966---112 mins.
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GORGEOUS GIRL/ UN BELLE FILLE
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Truffaut's underrated black comedy about the crimes of a nymphomaniac murderess named Camille Bliss (Bernadette Lafont). The majority of thenarrative unfolds in flashback when she's visited in prison by Murene (Claude Brasseur), a sociologist doing research for his thesis on unlawful ladies. Little does he know, he could windup her next tale to be told. Based on a book by Henry Farrell. Released on DVD as A Gorgeous Girl Like Me. In French Francois Truffaut---France---1972---96 mins.
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GREEN ROOM, THE (DVD-R)
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Based on Henry James' The Altar of the Dead, Truffaut's The Green Room stars the director himself as a journalist obsessed with death. Living and working next to shrines dedicated to his late wife and fallen comrades, he cannot emerge from his living death, even after the promise of new love comes his way. "...a devastating portrait of a man consumed by such profound grief that he is incapable of experiencing the beauty and joy of life" (Strictly Film School). Also known as Vanishing Fiancee. Costarring Nathalie Baye. In French with English subtitles.
Francois Truffaut---France---1978---94 mins.
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JULES AND JIM (CRITERION)
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Truffaut's famous love triangle about Jim and Jules, both in love with Jeanne Moreau. One of the films that justifies the invention of the movies.
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LAST METRO, THE (CRITERION)
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Set in Nazi-occupied Paris, Truffaut's tense drama unfolds in the Theatre Montmartre, where a group of French actors rehearse under Nazi supervision.
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MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN, THE
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More than a comedy of the sexes, Truffaut's touching film stars Charles Denner as a man who writes his memoirs, remembering all the women he has loved.
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MISSISSIPPI MERMAID
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In Truffaut's strange love story, Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a wealthy industrialist and Catherine Deneuve a mail-order bride who absconds with his bank account.
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SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER
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Charles Aznavour is the skilled concert pianist whose role in his wife's suicide has made him hide from life by playing in a bistro. But life and love refuse to pass him by, and inevitably he is drawn back into feeling once again. Includes many touches of light humor, including Truffaut's homage to American gangster films. "A fascinating accomplishment" (Film Quarterly). In French with English subtitles. Francois Truffaut---France---1960---81 mins.
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SOFT SKIN, THE
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Truffaut's New Wave classic is a study of a man's first incident of infidelity. Jean Desailly is the successful publisher who, while often separated from his wife because of business, meets a younger flight attendant and has an affair. With legendary skill and acute sensitivity, Truffaut rips the mask off the lies, suspicions and guilt that lead to the disintegration of ordinary marriages. In French with English subtitles.
Francois Truffaut---France---1964---113 mins.
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STORY OF ADELE H.
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In 1863, the beautiful young daughter of the world-famous writer Victor Hugo crosses the Atlantic in desperate pursuit of the man she believes is her fiance, her lover, her destiny. For months and years she waits for him, harasses him, throws herself in his path. Finally, her intensity gives way to madness. Isabelle Adjani gives a compelling performance in a film Truffaut called "the autopsy of a passion." In French with English subtitles. Francois Truffaut---France---1975---97 mins.
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TWO ENGLISH GIRLS/ LE DEUX
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Based on the only other novel by Henri-Pierre Roche, the author of Jules and Jim, the situation is reversed in Two English Girls (a.k.a. Anne and Muriel) as two sisters fall in love with the same man at the turn of the century. Jean-Pierre Leaud is the young Parisian convalescing at the seaside. Extraordinary mood photography by Nestor Almendros. In French Francois Truffaut---France---1971---124 mins.
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WILD CHILD
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The Wild Child is based on a remarkable journal, the 1806 memoirs of a French physician Jean Itard. The record begins in 1798, when a child is found living in the forest like an animal. Dr. Itard sets for himself the task of educating this child who is totally alien to civilization. Shot in austere black and white, the film achieves a depth of vision treating anew love, freedom, the nature of childhood and childhood's end. In French with English Francois Truffaut---France---1970---85 mins.
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WOMAN NEXT DOOR
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Fanny Ardant and Gerard Depardieu star as former tempestuous lovers, now married to other people, who suddenly find themselves living next door to one another. Truffaut masterfully guides the couple through a maze of confused feelings, steering them toward their final encounter. In French with English Francois Truffaut---France---1981---100 mins.
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