François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry, having worked on over 25 films. Truffaut's film Les Quatre Cents Coups/The 400 Blows came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement. Also editor of the famous magazine Cahiers du Cinéma.
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Films
- 1954: Une visite (short film)
- 1957: Les Mistons
- 1958: Une histoire d'eau/[A Story of Water], with Jean-Luc Godard
- 1959: Les Quatre Cents Coups (biographical)
- 1960: Tirez sur le pianiste
- 1962: Jules et Jim
- 1962: Antoine et Colette
- 1964: La Peau douce
- 1966: Fahrenheit 451
- 1968: La Mariée était en noir
- 1968: Baisers volés
- 1969: La Sirène du Mississippi
- 1969: L'Enfant sauvage
- 1970: Domicile conjugal
- 1971: Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent
- 1972: Une belle fille comme moi
- 1973: La Nuit américaine (received Oscar)
- 1975: L'Histoire d'Adèle H.
- 1976: L'Argent de poche
- 1977: L'Homme qui aimait les femmes
- 1978: La Chambre verte
- 1979: L'Amour en fuite
- 1980: Le Dernier Métro (received Cesar)
- 1981: La Femme d'à côté
- 1983: Vivement dimanche!
Books
- Hitchcock/Truffaut, Paris: Robert Laffont, 1966; red. as Le Cinéma selon Alfred Hitchcock, with intro by Truffaut; Paris: Seghers, 1975; 2nd ed. definitive, Paris: Ramsay, 1983; 2000; Paris: Gallimard, 2003.
- Hitchcock/Truffaut, with the collaboration of Helen G. Scott (trans.), rev. ed., New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985, PDF. (English)
- Les films de ma vie, Paris: Flammarion, 1981, 360 pp. [1]
- Films in my life; trans. Leonard Mayhew, 1981. (English)
Literature
- Anne Gillain, Le Cinéma selon François Truffaut, Paris: Flammarion, 1988.
- Gilles Cahoreau, François Truffaut (1932-1984), Paris: Julliard, 1990.
