A Truffaut Notebook
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2015
353 pages
978-0-7735-9798-3 (ISBN)
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An unconventional and deeply engaging introduction to a major figure in modern film.
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A Truffaut Notebook
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Sam Solecki is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and the author of A Truffaut Notebook.Sam Solecki is emeritus professor of English at the University of Toronto.
Sam Solecki is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and the author of A Truffaut Notebook.Sam Solecki is emeritus professor of English at the University of Toronto.
Content
- 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
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
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