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Paris Cinema.1.1
01 02 03 The New Wave Hotel 04 05 Roland-François Lack 06 07 08 09 The association of the French New Wave with the kind of movement through urban 10 space that has been called flânerie is a familiar one. A defamiliarising strategy in this 11 chapter, and in my research more broadly,1 is to examine and occupy the spaces in 12 which New Wave films come to rest, countering a general assumption that cinema is 13 always about movement. The hotel is a peculiarly cinematic stopping place because, it 14 has been argued, it is ‘always already in motion’, a ‘ceaseless flux of reservations, occu- 15 pations and vacancies’.2 By fixing exactly the locations of Paris hotels in New Wave films 16 and by looking closely at the contents of the rooms in those hotels, this chapter will try 17 to resist the appeal of such mobility and fix its gaze firmly on its object, unmoved. The 18 suggestion will be, finally, that the French New Wave is less a cinema of flânerie than 19 it is a cinema of stasis; is as much a cinema of interiors as it is a cinema of the street. 20 What, cinematically, is particular about the New Wave’s use of hotels? New Wave 21 hotels are places of passage, temporary stopping places that signify transience and, in 22 the end, mobility. In her study of cinematic flânerie, Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues defines 23 the cinematographic image as ‘passage’,3 and though she goes on to illustrate the point 24 through New Wave films that follow characters as they walk in streets, fixing on their 25 ‘singular mobility’, here we will be following the New Wave’s characters into spaces 26 where walking is restricted. -
From Honoré De Balzac to Franc¸Ois Truffaut1
The European Legacy, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 173–193, 2004 The Human Comedy of Antoine Doinel: From Honore´deBalzac to Franc¸ois Truffaut1 ϳϳ ANER PREMINGER ϳϳ ABSTRACT The focus of this paper is the intertextual relationship between the work of Franc¸ois Truffaut and that of Honore´deBalzac. It explores Balzac’s influence on the shaping of Truffaut’s voice and argues that Balzac’s Human Comedy served Truffaut as a model for some of his cinematic innovations. This applies to Truffaut’s total oeuvre, but particularly to his series of autobiographical films, “The Adventures of Antoine Doinel”: The 400 Blows ( Les Quatre Cents Coups, 1959), Antoine and Colette, Love at Twenty (Antoine et Colette, L’Amour a` Vingt Ans, 1962), Stolen Kisses ( Baisers Vole´s, 1968), Bed and Board ( Domicile Conjugal, 1970), Love on the Run ( L’Amour en Fuite, 1979). In examining Truffaut’s “rewriting” of Balzac, I adopt—and adapt—the intertextual approach of Harold Bloom’s theory of the “anxiety of influence.” My paper applies Bloom’s concept of misreading to an examination of the relationship between Truffaut’s autobiographical films, and Balzac’s Human Comedy, both thematically and structurally. On 21 August 1850, the writer Victor Hugo read a eulogy over the grave of his colleague, the writer Honore´deBalzac. In this eulogy Hugo attempted to sum up Balzac’s contribution to literature in particular and to culture in general. Among other things, Hugo said the following: The name of Balzac will form part of the luminous mark that our period will leave upon the future. -
Antoine Doinel's Spleen: Truffaut Misreads Baudelaire
Working Paper 138/2014 Antoine Doinel’s Spleen: Truffaut Misreads Baudelaire Achinoam Ester Berger Published by the European Forum at the Hebrew University Jerusalem 9190501, Israel Tel: (972 2) 588-3286 Fax: (972 2) 588-1535 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ef.huji.ac.il Working Paper 138/2014 Antoine Doinel’s Spleen: Truffaut Misreads Baudelaire Achinoam Ester Berger © European Forum at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of this paper. European Forum at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905, Israel | http://www.ef.huji.ac.il Tel: (972 2)588-3286 | Fax: (972 2)588-1535 | [email protected] Abstract:1 This essay examines the intertextual dialogue between François Truffaut’s cycle of autobiographical films, known as the Doinel cycle, and Charles Baudelaire’s collection of poems The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal), and collection of prose poems The Spleen of Paris (Le Spleen de Paris: Petits poèmes en prose). The focal point is the fourth Doinel film, Bed and Board (Domicile Conjugal, 1970), and the poem “Spleen IV” in The Flowers of Evil. By applying Aner Preminger’s (Preminger: 2006) cinematic adaptation of Harold Bloom’s “anxiety of influence” theory (Bloom: 1973) and “misreading” concept (Bloom: 1975), I argue that the explicit and implicit references to Baudelaire are not a homage, i.e. -
Director Focus François Truffaut
DIRECTOR FOCUS FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Actor and Film Critic, In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an François Truffant (1932 – 1984) helped transform the icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films, cinematic landscape as one of the founders of the including the semi-autobiographical Antoine Doinel series of French New Wave. films (beginning with The 400 Blows), French Occupation drama, The Last Metro and First World War love triangle Jules and Jim. FOR ALL ENQUIRIES REGARDING UMBRELLA’S THEATRICAL CATALOGUE umbrellaent.films @Umbrella_Films PLEASE CONTACT ACHALA DATAR – [email protected] | 03 9020 5134 DIRECTOR FOCUS FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT DVD DVD DVD BD THE 400 BLOWS FINALLY SUNDAY JULES AND JIM Praised by film-makers and critics the world over, Truffaut’s final film before his untimely death in 1984, Hailed by critics as one of the greatest films of all time, Truffaut’s The 400 Blows launched the Nouvelle Finally Sunday brought he career full circle, revisiting Truffaut’s internationally award-winning film Jules and Jim Vogue and paved the way for some of cinema’s most the film noir style of his early movies. is set pre- and post- First World War, and tells the tale of important and influential directors. Based on The Long Saturday Night by Charles Williams, two young students, Jules (Oskar Werner), and Jim (Henri Twelve-year-old Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud) has Finally Sunday is one of Truffaut’s most purely cinematic Serre), both in love with the beautiful, capricious, Catherine troubles at home and at school. -
The Films of François Truffaut David Walsh Reviews a Program of the Filmmaker's Works at the Detroit Film Theatre
World Socialist Web Site wsws.org The films of François Truffaut David Walsh reviews a program of the filmmaker's works at the Detroit Film Theatre 25 October 1999 As part of its autumn-winter schedule the Detroit Film Theatre at the he transformed aspects of his own unhappy childhood into fiction. In the Detroit Institute of Arts is presenting all 21 of French filmmaker François film a Parisian youth, Antoine Doinel, tries to get by in the face of his Truffaut's feature films, two of his shorts and a documentary about his life parents' neglect or indifference. Petty crime leads him into trouble with and career. The DFT program, part of a national tour of the Truffaut the law and a stay in a detention center. He escapes, and the joyous works, is entirely welcome and gives viewers the opportunity to evaluate moment when he rushes, arms open, toward the sea, savoring his freedom, the work of a significant postwar film director. is captured by Truffaut in a memorable freeze frame. Born in 1932, Truffaut first came to prominence in the mid-1950s as an There are some lovely moments in this film. It has the flavor and pathos iconoclastic film critic for Cahiers du Cinéma, the noted French film of life. Here, in beautiful black-and-white, is Paris in the 1950s, family journal. Around this publication, edited by André Bazin, gathered a life, adolescence, rebellion. And the grimness of lower middle class number of those—including Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, existence and captivity in various forms. -
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Dir: Francois Truffaut, France, 1959, 1962, 1968, 1970 and 1979 A review by Richard Harrison, Norwich City College, UK May 5th, 2004 marks the sixtieth birthday of Jean-Pierre Leaud, perhaps the most famous juvenile in world cinema history. As Antoine Doinel, his rise from pre-pubescent adolescent to fully grown man across five Francois Truffaut films between 1959 and 1979 is chronicled in a luxurious five DVD set from the Criterion Collection. The 400 Blows (1959), Antoine And Colette (1962), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed And Board (1970) and Love On The Run (1979) provide not only a detailed insight into the cycle’s eponymous star but also a semi- autobiographical portrait of their director. The five DVD set is well packaged, with each film having been painstakingly remastered. The picture quality is outstanding, and reveals the true beauty of the films (compare the films with the short clips that appear in the television show extracts). Antoine and Colette appears on the same disc as the The 400 Blows which enables the fifth disc to include Les Mistons (1957), a delightful short film which acts as precursor to the Doinel cycle, and a fascinating documentary piece Working With Francois Truffaut: Claude de Givray and Bernard Revon (1986). All the discs have extras of some sort, ranging from Brian Stonehill’s superb, friendly commentary that accompanies the The 400 Blows to newsreel footage of the 1959 and 1968 Cannes Film Festivals, and numerous television interviews with Francois Truffaut and Jean- Pierre Leaud. An informative and nicely illustrated seventy-two page booklet completes what is an essential purchase for any film enthusiast, and reveals why Truffaut’s premature death in 1984 was such a catastrophic loss, not only for the world in general but for cinema in particular. -
Directed by François Truffaut Written by François Truffaut Dialogue By
February 19, 2008 (XVI:6) Mervyn LeRoy Gold Diggers of 1933 19 François Truffaut, 400 Blows 1959 (99 min) 11((((117(117minmin.)minutes) Directed by François Truffaut Written by François Truffaut Dialogue by Marcel Moussy Produced by François Truffaut Original Music by Jean Constantin Cinematography by Henri Decaë Film Editing by Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte Thanks André Bazin, Jean-Claude Brialy, Fernand Deligny, Alex Joffé, Jacques Josse, Suzanne Lipinska, Claire Mafféi, Jeanne Moreau, Claude Véga, Claude Vermorel, Annette Wademant Jean-Pierre Léaud...Antoine Doinel Claire Maurier...Gilberte Doinel Albert Rémy...Julien Doinel Guy Decomble...'Petite Feuille', the French teacher Georges Flamant...Mr. Bigey Patrick Auffay...René Daniel Couturier...Les enfants François Nocher...Les enfants Richard Kanayan...Les enfants Renaud Fontanarosa...Les enfants Michel Girard...Les enfants Henry Moati...Les enfants Bernard Abbou...Les enfants Jean-François Bergouignan...Les enfants Michel Lesignor...Les enfants Luc Andrieux Robert Beauvais...Director of the school Bouchon Christian Brocard Yvonne Claudie...Mme Bigey Marius Laurey Claude Mansard...Examining Magistrate Jacques Monod...Commissioner Pierre Repp...The English Teacher Henri Virlojeux...Night watchman Jean-Claude Brialy...Man in Street Jeanne Moreau...Woman with dog Philippe de Broca...Man in Funfair Jacques Demy...Policeman Jean Douchet...The Lover Marianne Girard Simone Jolivet Laure Paillette François Truffaut...Man in Funfair Cannes Film Festival 1959 Won Best Director François Truffaut Truffaut—400 Blows—2 François Truffaut (6 February 1932, Paris—21 October from silent films. (That's a shot where the screen seems to screw 1984,Paris, brain tumor) entered the film world as a writer—first down to circle one detail, before going to black). -
François Truffaut
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT exposition 8 octobre 2014 – 25 janvier 2015 « Je fais des films pour réaliser mes rêves d’adolescent, pour me faire du bien et, si possible, faire du bien aux autres. » François Truffaut est mort le 21 octobre 1984 à l’âge de 52 ans. En octobre 2014, à l’occasion du trentième anniversaire de sa disparition, La Cinémathèque française consacrera à l’auteur des Quatre Cents Coups et de Jules et Jim une grande exposition, accompagnée de la rétrospective complète de son œuvre. Le pari de cette exposition consiste à aller au plus près de Léaud) dans Les Quatre Cents Coups, un personnage qui l’univers intime du cinéaste, où l’écrit et la chose écrite tenaient reviendra à travers la saga Doinel (jusqu’à L’Amour en fuite, une place essentielle. Dès son enfance, Truffaut fut un grand en 1978), sorte d’équivalent cinématographique de L’Éducation lecteur, Balzac devenant son écrivain de chevet. Puis d'autres : sentimentale. Et il y a bien sûr Fahrenheit 451, d’après Ray Jacques Audiberti, Henri-Pierre Roché (dont il adapta Jules et Bradbury, où les personnages deviennent des hommes-livres, Jim et Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent), Marcel Proust dont pour les sauver des flammes. C’est ce qu’était Truffaut : un il fut un lecteur assidu. Raymond Queneau et Paul Léautaud, homme de cinéma entièrement voué au Livre. deux écrivains qu’il aimait et qui l’ont inspiré. Henry James, au cœur d'un film impressionnant et très personnel :La Chambre Il fut aussi un admirateur des écrivains appartenant à ce qu'il verte. -
Iiênäã MICHAEL DOUGLAS FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT STEVEN
AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURAL CENTER PROGRAM GUIDE AND MOVIE CALENDAR JULY 2 - SEPTEMBER 3 Totally Awesome ÀiÊÃÊvÊÌ iÊnäÃÀiÊÃÊvÊÌ iÊnäà MICHAEL DOUGLAS FRANÇOISÎ TRUFFAUT STEVEN SPIELBERG THIN MAN SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS CONTENTS same day as GHOSTBUSTERS—unthinkable in today’s climate of 2 Totally Awesome 3: cautious scheduling—the film was a box office hit and remains a cult classic. DIR Joe Dante; SCR Chris Columbus; PROD Michael Finnell. More Films of the 1980s US, 1984, color, 106 min. RATED PG 6 Special Engagement: 25th Anniversary! LAWRENCE OF ARABIA BREAKIN’ Fri, July 10, 9:30; Mon, July 13, 9:45 Poppin’, lockin’, cross-cultural love a la WEST SIDE STORY, and Ice-T! 7 The Thin Man at 75 July 2 - September 3 Classically trained dancer Kelly (Lucinda Dickey) befriends Ozone and Turbo (legendary breakdancers Adolfo Quinones and Michael 8 The Films of François Truffaut, Now in its third year, the summer retrospective of 1980s Chambers), and these misfits take the establishment by storm when Part I films has become one of AFI Silver’s most successful series they join forces to enter a dance contest. DIR Joel Silberg; SCR/PROD ever…and there’s plenty more where that came from! Allen DeBevoise; SCR Charles Parker, Gerald Scaife; PROD David Zito. US, 1984, color, 90 min. RATED PG 10 AFI Life Achievement Award Here’s another season of '80s-era summer fun—some of Retrospective: Michael Douglas the enduring and influential cultural phenomena that 25th Anniversary! helped make us what we are today—including big hits, BREAKIN’ 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO cult classics and quite a few of today’s stars, back when 13 Steven Spielberg Retrospective, Sat, July 11, 9:45; Wed, July 15, 10:30 they were just starting out. -
Contemporary Taiwanese Cinema and 1950S French Auteurs
UC Riverside UC Riverside Previously Published Works Title The absent father of Sino-French cinema: Contemporary Taiwanese cinema and 1950s French auteurs Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32s0v195 Journal Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 8(1) ISSN 1750-8061 Author Bloom, ME Publication Date 2014 DOI 10.1080/17508061.2013.875728 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 4.0 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California This article was downloaded by: [Michelle Bloom] On: 18 February 2014, At: 11:58 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Journal of Chinese Cinemas Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjcc20 The absent father of Sino-French cinema: contemporary Taiwanese cinema and 1950s French auteurs Michelle E. Blooma a Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA Published online: 13 Feb 2014. To cite this article: Michelle E. Bloom , Journal of Chinese Cinemas (2014): The absent father of Sino-French cinema: contemporary Taiwanese cinema and 1950s French auteurs, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2013.875728 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2013.875728 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. -
National Gauery Df
National GaUery / df Art FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Deborah Ziska, Information Officer June 28, 1999 CONTACT: Lydia Beruff, Publicist (202) 842-6353 Peggy Parsons, Film Programs (202) 842-6272 NATIONAL GALLERY 1999 SUMMER FILM SEASON BEGINS JULY 3 WITH SPECIAL PREMIERE OF "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS" AND FEATURE FILMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD Washington, D.C. - The National Gallery of Art will begin the 1999 summer season of weekend films on July 3. This year's offerings span the globe. Among the highlights are Canadian documentaries, works by French director Frangois Truffaut, Swedish New Wave films by director Bo Widerberg, and a special presentation of the American silent classic The Ten Commandments with orchestra accompaniment. Shown in the East Building auditorium, films are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. A summer film calendar may be obtained by calling (202) 842-6799 or consulting the Gallery's Web site at www.nga.gov. A complete schedule follows. The East Coast premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's first biblical epic The Ten Commandments (1923), with its restored musical score performed live, opens the summer film season on July 3. The film's original music was composed and compiled by Hugo Riesenfeld (1879-1939) and reconstructed last year by internationally renowned early film music specialist Gillian B. Anderson. The music's harmonies and orchestrations are -more- Fourth Street at Constitution Avenue. N.W.. Washington. D.C. 20565 (202) 842-6;553, Facsimile (202) 842-2403 page 2 ... summer film program characteristic of the 1920s and lend a slightly abstract quality to the presentation, as the music is not designed to fit every frame of the film but changes from sequence to sequence. -
Truffaut and New Wave
Quest Journals Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science Volume 4 ~ Issue 9 (2016) pp: 06-12 ISSN(Online) : 2321-9467 www.questjournals.org Research Paper Truffaut and new wave Özden Toprak Received 10 August, 2016; Accepted 15 September, 2016 © The author(s) 2016. Published with open access at www.questjournals.org ABSTRACT: “New Wave” (La Nouvelle Vague) term first seen in L’Express indicates a movement which is prepared by different names collectively. The view of Alexandre Astruc sees cinema almost like a work of literature and his emphasis to cinema’s own language; Cahiers Du Cinema –a symbol of new movement- journal published by Andre Bazin and the discussions in this journal about the movement; Truffaut’s approach about director as an “auteur” makes a contribution to prepare the “New Wave”. Truffaut as an important figure of the movement defended that a film has to belong to the director and he insisted on the “personal” relationship between the director and the audience. Auteur theory utters the resemblances and similarities between the relations of “language and style” in literature and “type and auteur” in cinema. The 400 Blows of Truffaut is a first example of the cinema of the future and it is also a reflection of the theory to the practical area as Alexandre Astruc says as: “Director writes his film with his camera like an author makes with his pen…” In this article it will be tried to put forth the process of emergence of the “New Wave” with its background and the cinema of Truffaut’s place in this movement will be undertaken in the light of The 400 Blows.