Day for Night [1973 film]
by François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard (Writer), Suzanne Schiffman (Writer)
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The leading lady is recovering from a nervous breakdown, another performer is soused on the set, unions threaten to walk, shooting must finish before the insurance lapses and a cat can't hit its mark. Is this any way to make a film?Tags
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The best film on filmmaking ever made.
The cord between Godard and Truffaut was decisively severed after the release of Truffaut's immensely popular Day for Night. Godard found the film to be dishonest, and told Truffaut as much in the first of a series of angry letters between the two men. Truly, by 1973, (shall we let bygones be bygones?) Godard had already made his works meaningless He'd turned them into a sham, by rendering them hollow, worthless, not worthy of the quality of his previous productions (Vivre sa vie, Le Mépris etc)
Apr 28, 2024Portuguese (Brazil)
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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 of films, rather than conventional screenwriters or show more 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) show less
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- Day for Night [1973 film]
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- La nuit américaine
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- 1973-05-15
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- Day for Night (1973 | IMDb)
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