François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic.
He was eight years old when he saw his first movie, Abel Gance's Paradis Perdu (Paradise Lost, 1939), beginning his obsession.
He became a personal friend of Truffaut's and helped him out of various financial and criminal situations during his formative years. Truffaut joined the French Army in 1950, aged 18, but spent the next two years trying to escape.
But Godard tried to reconcile with Truffaut later on, and after his death wrote the introduction to a collection of his letters and a long tribute in his film Histoire(s) du cinéma. == Personal life == Truffaut was married to Madeleine Morgenstern from 1957 to 1965, and they had two daughters, Laura (born 1959) and Eva (born 1961).
Truffaut's film The 400 Blows is a defining film of the French New Wave movement, and has four sequels, Antoine et Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, and Love on the Run, between 1958 and 1979.
He was called "The Gravedigger of French Cinema" and was the only French critic not invited to the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.
He won the Best Director award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.
But Godard tried to reconcile with Truffaut later on, and after his death wrote the introduction to a collection of his letters and a long tribute in his film Histoire(s) du cinéma. == Personal life == Truffaut was married to Madeleine Morgenstern from 1957 to 1965, and they had two daughters, Laura (born 1959) and Eva (born 1961).
Although his theory was not widely accepted then, it gained some support in the 1960s from American critic Andrew Sarris.
But Godard tried to reconcile with Truffaut later on, and after his death wrote the introduction to a collection of his letters and a long tribute in his film Histoire(s) du cinéma. == Personal life == Truffaut was married to Madeleine Morgenstern from 1957 to 1965, and they had two daughters, Laura (born 1959) and Eva (born 1961).
While the film focused on two of the French New Wave's favorite elements, American film noir and themselves, Truffaut never again experimented as heavily. ===Jules and Jim and The Soft Skin=== In 1962, Truffaut directed his third movie, Jules and Jim, a romantic drama starring Jeanne Moreau.
The film was very popular and highly influential. In 1963, Truffaut was approached to direct the American film Bonnie and Clyde, with a treatment written by Esquire journalists David Newman and Robert Benton intended to introduce the French New Wave to Hollywood.
But Godard tried to reconcile with Truffaut later on, and after his death wrote the introduction to a collection of his letters and a long tribute in his film Histoire(s) du cinéma. == Personal life == Truffaut was married to Madeleine Morgenstern from 1957 to 1965, and they had two daughters, Laura (born 1959) and Eva (born 1961).
It was not acclaimed on its release. ===Fahrenheit 451=== Truffaut's first non-French film was a 1966 adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, showcasing Truffaut's love of books.
In 1967, Truffaut published his book-length interview of Hitchcock, Hitchcock/Truffaut (New York: Simon and Schuster). ===Short films=== After having been a critic, Truffaut decided to make films.
The identity of Truffaut's biological father is unknown, but a private detective agency in 1968 revealed that its inquiry into the matter led to a Roland Levy, a Jewish dentist from Bayonne.
In 1973, Godard accused Truffaut of making a movie that was a "lie" (Day For Night), and Truffaut replied with a 20-page letter in which he accused Godard of being a radical-chic hypocrite, a man who believed everyone to be "equal" in theory only.
Time Magazine placed it on its list of 100 Best Films of the Century (along with The 400 Blows). In 1975, Truffaut gained more notoriety with The Story of Adèle H.; Isabelle Adjani in the title role earned a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
His 1976 film Small Change was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. ===The late 70s and the last Doinel=== The Man Who Loved Women (1977), a romantic drama, was a minor hit. Truffaut also appeared in Steven Spielberg's 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind as scientist Claude Lacombe. The Green Room (1978) starred Truffaut in the lead.
His 1976 film Small Change was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. ===The late 70s and the last Doinel=== The Man Who Loved Women (1977), a romantic drama, was a minor hit. Truffaut also appeared in Steven Spielberg's 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind as scientist Claude Lacombe. The Green Room (1978) starred Truffaut in the lead.
Truffaut's film The 400 Blows is a defining film of the French New Wave movement, and has four sequels, Antoine et Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, and Love on the Run, between 1958 and 1979.
Moussy (English translation: The 400 Blows) Le Cinéma selon Alfred Hitchcock (1967, second edition 1983) (English translation: Hitchcock and Hitchcock/Truffaut with the collaboration of Helen G.
François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic.
He was expected to attend his friend Miloš Forman's Amadeus premiere when he died on 21 October 1984, aged 52, at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France. At the time of his death, he had numerous films in preparation.
A 2014 consideration of the film by Charles Silver praises it. ===Thrillers and Stolen Kisses=== Truffaut worked on projects with varied subjects.
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