One of the big events of the spring is the complete retrospective of the films of François Truffaut that begins today at Film Forum and runs through April 17th. It’s a welcome chance to see some great ...

Today would have been François Truffaut’s eightieth birthday; he was born on Feb. 6, 1932, and he died at fifty-two-years-old, on Oct. 21, 1984, during a period of renewed vigor for the French New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laura Truffaut, daughter of the legendary French New Wave director Francois Truffaut, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

A two-part documentary from 1996 —titled “The Man Who Loved Cinema”— has made its way online, and it’s a fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many of the New Wave directors aspired to theorist Alexandre Astruc's dream of using the film camera as intimately and personally ...

Those unfamiliar with the nuances of France’s New Wave may not realize its movies aren’t all inscrutable. For every Jacques Rivette, there was an Eric Rohmer; for every Jean-Luc Godard, a François ...

Google has dedicated its front page to French film director, screenwriter and critic François Truffaut today, with a Google Doodle headed to the U.S. to celebrate what would have been his 80th ...

He really liked women – a lot. Not all directors like women. Sometimes, they really don’t do you justice,” Jacqueline Bisset says of the French filmmaker François Truffaut, who directed her in the ...

Series'Adjani, The Famous Stranger' (2/6). While making a name for herself at the Comédie Française, the young actress became the French filmmaker's obsession, who courted her insistently on the set ...

Writer and translator Helen Scott was Truffaut's ally throughout his career. In this exclusive chapter from a new biography, Serge Toubiana recounts her insistence that Truffaut direct one of the most ...

If you want some insight into what it was like growing up as the daughter of François Truffaut, "The Soft Skin" is highly recommended. Not because the 1964 film is particularly representative of the ...