François Truffaut (1932–1984)
Autore di Il cinema secondo Hitchcock
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Francois Truffaut was one of the principal figures in the French New Wave movement of the 1950s and early 1960s. As a young critic for the avant-garde film magazine Les Cahiers du Cinema, he formulated the politique des auteurs---the idea that directors with a personal vision are the true authors mostra altro of films, rather than conventional screenwriters or script-bound directors. An admirer of American films, Truffaut was much influenced by Alfred Hitchcock (see Vol. 1). In several of his own films, Truffaut, who had an unhappy childhood and youth, portrayed a fictionalized version of himself, a character called Antoine Doinel, to create personal cinema. The first of these films, which was also his first feature film, was The Four Hundred Blows (1959). It is still one of the most popular of his works. Other notable Truffaut films are Shoot the Piano Player (1960), the lyrical menage a trois Jules and Jim (1961), the Academy Award-winning Day for Night (1973), The Last Metro (1980), and The Woman Next Door (1981). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di François Truffaut
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel (The 400 Blows / Antoine & Collette / Stolen Kisses / Bed & Board / Love on the Run) (2003) 18 copie
Criterion 101 — Regista — 9 copie
Dagbok med Fahrenheit 451 2 copie
Francois Truffaut Collection 2 copie
Francois Truffaut - Collection 3 [Blu-ray] — Regista — 2 copie
Tire Au Flanc (The Army Game) 1 copia
La mujer de al lado 1 copia
I film della mia vita - Vol. 1 1 copia
La Nuit américaine scénario du film suivi de Journal de tournage de Farenheit 451 (Cinéma 2000) 1 copia
Les salades de l'amour 1 copia
Il piacere degli occhi -2 1 copia
All the Boys Are Called Patrick | The Mischief Makers — Regista — 1 copia
Opere correlate
Essential Art House, Volume II (Black Orpheus / The 400 Blows / Ikiru / The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp / Pygmalion… (2009) — Regista — 2 copie
Mata Hari, agent H21 [1964 film] — Screenplay — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Truffaut, François
- Data di nascita
- 1932-02-06
- Data di morte
- 1984-10-21
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- France
- Luogo di nascita
- Paris, France
- Luogo di morte
- Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
- Luogo di residenza
- Paris, France
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France - Istruzione
- Self-taught
- Attività lavorative
- film critic
film director
screenwriter
film producer
actor - Relazioni
- Bazin, Andre (mentor)
Moreau, Jeanne (actress) - Organizzazioni
- Cahiers du cinema
- Breve biografia
- François Truffaut was one of the most influential figures in film history. He was largely self-taught, but became one of France's leading film critics during the 1950s. His promotion of the "auteur theory" (politique des auteurs) eventually revolutionized film criticism and led to a re-evaluation of the work of Abel Gance, Max Ophuls, Roberto Rossellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Nicholas Ray, and others. He and his colleagues at the pioneering French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma developed a more personal, freewheeling vision of filmmaking that achieved world fame as the French New Wave (Nouvelle vague). Truffaut was born on to an unmarried mother, a circumstance that would shape much of his life and work. He was taken in by his maternal grandparents. In 1933, his mother married Roland Truffaut, an architectural draftsman, who adopted young François, but he didn't live with them until 1939. Many details from his childhood, freely reworked, can be found in Truffaut's semi-autobiographical debut film, Les 400 Coups (The 400 Blows, 1960). As a teenager, he joined various film clubs and societies, where he earned a reputation for his outspoken opinions on films and directors. He was befriended by older intellectuals and cultural figures such as André Bazin, Louise de Vilmorin, and Jean Cocteau. In 1950, Truffaut got a job as a society reporter for Elle magazine and quickly established a reputation as a film critic. Through his work at Cahiers du cinéma and his frequent attendance of screenings at the Cinématheque Française headed by Henri Langlois, Truffaut became friends with other young critics who eventually became leading filmmakers of the French New Wave. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the peak of the New Wave, Truffaut created and directed a brilliant series of films. In the 1970s, he made other notable films, especially his homage to moviemaking Day for Night (1973), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The Last Metro (1980), a portrayal of complicated moral choices during the Occupation, received 10 Césars, including Best Picture. In 1981, he published the book Les Films de ma vie (Films in my life); his correspondance was translated and published posthumously in 1988. In 1983, Truffaut was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died at age 52.
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- Voto
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- ISBN
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