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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A newly released collection of his masterworks reminds us of movies we need right now. The new François Truffaut Collection arrives right on time to relieve awards-season exhaustion. The four-film Blu ...

Today at 5:30 PM (and once more tomorrow at 6 PM), the Gene Siskel Film Center hosts a screening of Francois Truffaut’s The Story of Adele H. (It screens alongside Andrzej Zulawski’s horror classic ...

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 ...

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 ...

While Tarantino is no fan of the French New Wave legend, he did single out "The Story of Adele H" as a Truffaut film he enjoyed. Say what you will about Quentin Tarantino, but he never backs down from ...

The late great New Wave auteur is given a worthy resurrection at the Cinematheque in Paris By Jordan Mintzer Francois Truffaut Still - H 2014 To commemorate the death of the great French director, ...