François Truffaut

Features

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

By Chadwick Jenkins

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 [2 April 2009]

An Auteur’s Touch of Evil

By Shaun Huston

The auteur is dead, long live the auteur: Orson Welles and Touch of Evil, 50 years on. [19 March 2009]

Reviews

Jules and Jim: Criterion Collection (1962)

By Cynthia Fuchs

'Truffaut had the dread of everything conventional. Above all, he detested the conventionality of the nonconventional,' Jean Gruault notes. [31 May 2005]