Bed and Board (1970) | Review by Pauline Kael
As this series of Antoine Doinel films has gone on, Truffaut has had less and less to say about his once semi-autobiographical hero, and…
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François Truffaut
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Pauline Kael on François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury’s idea of censorship lacks depth. But even worse is the on-screen depiction of the renegades’ solution to book burning—to have people “become” books.…
Day for Night (La Nuit Américaine, 1973) – Review by Pauline Kael
Day for Night has the Truffaut proportion and grace, and it can please those who have grown up with Truffaut’s films — especially those…
Adaptation of an Auteur: Truffaut’s Jules Et Jim (1961) from the Novel by Henri-Pierre Roché – By Stuart Y. Mcdougal
In 1956, François Truffaut was browsing in a Paris bookstore when his eyes fell on a copy of Jules et Jim by Henri-Pierre Roché.…
Jules and Jim – Review by Pauline Kael
Jules and Jim is not only one of the most beautiful films ever made, and the greatest motion picture of recent years, it is…
Paths of Glory – Review by François Truffaut
François Truffaut reviews Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory"