Articles tagged "françois truffaut"

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The Aesthetics of Absorption: Truffaut’s ‘The 400 Blows’

by Chadwick Jenkins

[2.Apr.09] :. In Truffaut, the camera works not to keep the viewer out of the constructed reality of the film but rather to draw the viewer into the artifice, to make the viewer complicit in its feigned reality

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An Auteur’s Touch of Evil

by Shaun Huston

[19.Mar.09] :. The auteur is dead, long live the auteur: Orson Welles and Touch of Evil, 50 years on.

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Film Feature

Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

by Bill Gibron

[29.May.07] :. The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.

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Film DVD Review

Jules and Jim: Criterion Collection (1962)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.May.05] :. 'Truffaut had the dread of everything conventional. Above all, he detested the conventionality of the nonconventional,' Jean Gruault notes.

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