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Portrait of François Truffaut by Duane Michals + Other Odd Photos

Monday, February 6th, 2017
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    Photo of François Truffaut by Duane Michals, 1981

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    François Truffaut was born on February 6, 1932, in Paris, France. With the identity of his biological father later becoming a mystery, François’s mother, Janine de Monferrand, wed Roland Truffaut, with her husband giving his surname to her son. Yet the couple ultimately never allowed the boy to live with them; he was looked after by a wet nurse until, as a toddler, he was taken in and raised by his maternal grandmother and grandfather.

    Francois Truffaut “The 400 Blows” The light and darkness of childhood is explored by John Conomos from Senses of Cinema.14 Jun 04 “A child’s eyes register fast. Later he develops the film”. Rivette says “In speaking of himself, he is speaking of us”

  • Les Miston (see youtube)

    Truffaut simply called it “my first real film”.Moreover it was Bernadette Lafont’s film debut. She was at that time Gérard Blain’s wife. It was shot at her hometown Nîmes.


    A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

  • André Gregory and Wallace Shawn’s Top 10 – read what they have to say about Jules et Jim.

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    Two English Girls –


  • The Story of Adele H.

  • Truffaut (previous post – his search for love & language, cinema & books)

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    (Truffaut and Jean Cocteau)
    via Silent and Talkie blog

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    (Robert Bresson and Truffaut at Cannes 1967)

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    (With Sam Fuller)

  • Francois Truffaut, His Search for Love & Language (Cinema +Books)

    Thursday, February 6th, 2014
  • The Wild Child was dedicated to Jean Pierre Leaud.

    After filming was completed, Truffaut realized that The Wild Child had a strong connection to his first film The 400 Blows, not just for its depicting of frustrated children but because it mirrored his experience working with then first time actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. Truffaut said that “I was reliving somewhat the shooting of The 400 Blows, during which I initiated Jean-Pierre Léaud into cinema. I basically taught him what cinema was.” Truffaut then decided to dedicate the film to Léaud. He later added that he “realized that L”Enfant sauvage (The Wild Child) is bound up with both Les Quatre Cent Coups (400 Blows) and Fahrenheit 451. In Les Quatre Cents Coups I showed a child who missed being loved, who grows up without tenderness; in Fahrenheit 451 it was a man who longed for books, that is, culture. With Victor of Aveyron, what is missing is something more essential – language. Truffaut also considered the making of the film to be a growing experience for him as a person and as a filmmaker, stating that “until The Wild Child, when I had children in my films, I identified with them, but here, for the first time, I identified with the adult, the father.” After the film was released, Truffaut told a reporter “I did not want to spell out my message. It is simply this: man is nothing without other men.” (via wiki Wild Child)

  • Truffaut archive here.

  • Nestor Almendros with Francois

    Truffaut was impressed with the cinematograpy Nestor Almendros did for Eric Rohmer’s My Night at Maude. The Wild Child was their first collaboration. Nestor Almendros continued to work for Truffaut, he filmed 9 films out of the 27 films Truffaut made in his short lifetime. Terrence Malick saw The Wild Child and hired Nestor for Days of Heaven. He did not get to finish filming Days of Heaven as he was called to do the next Truffaut film The Man Who Loved Women. Nestor became very much in demand among American filmmakers, but he always made sure to make time for Truffaut.

  • Truffaut -the Man who loved cinema. (youtube)

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    (Farenheidt 451, Julie Christie played two roles shot by Nicolas Roeg. Far from Madding Crowd was also by Roeg and later she was directed by him in Don’t Look Now).

    Nicholas Roeg on Truffaut.. why he was underestimated.

  • The Essentials Truffaut – his 10 best films (Indiewire) in honor of the anniversary of Truffaut’s birthday, Feb 6.

    “The Wild Child” marks Truffaut’s first period piece since “Jules Et Jim” and something of a spiritual follow-up to “The 400 Blows.” The idea of an uncontrollable child is one that had interested Truffaut for some time (he’d tried to obtain the rights to “The Miracle Worker,” about Helen Keller, in the early 1960s, but was beaten to the punch by Arthur Penn) and inspired by an article in Le Monde, happened upon the story of Victor of Aveyron (Jean-Pierre Cargol), who emerged at the start of the 19th century, aged eleven or twelve, having seemingly spent his childhood without any human contact. And the result is something quite remarkable, a quiet, intimate picture quite different from anything the filmmaker had made before

  • Hitch in the center (photo via)

    Truffaut on the genesis of “Hitchcock/Truffaut”

    In American, you call this man “Hitch”. In France, we call him “Monsieur Hitchcock”. You respect him because he shoots scenes of love as if they were scenes of murder. We respect him because he shoots scenes of murder like scenes of love!
    François Truffaut, AFI Salute to Hitchcock, 1979

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    (400 Blows)

  • Francois Truffaut The last interview..New Yorker .

    Truffaut last appearance on TV on Bernard Pivot, discussing Hitchock, Polanski also in the panel.

    Apollinaire’s Letters to Madeleine

    Saturday, August 25th, 2012


    Guillaume Apollinaire’s exeperience of the war provided the material for
    Jules et Jim directed by Francois Truffaut. Francois Truffaut

  • L’histoire d’Apollinaire et de Madeleine est racontée sans citer le nom du poète dans le film Jules et Jim de François Truffaut.
    (Letters to Madeleine)


  • Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire – dans l’atelier de Picasso du 11 boulevard de Clichy – Picasso, 1910(Via)

    Guillaume Apollinaire – 26 August 1880

  • A great page on Guillaume Apollinaire here.