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Movie Trailer of the Day: Bed and Board by Francois Truffaut
02 years ago
The third film in the Antoine Doinel series is also my favorite, dealing with Antoine’s marriage and fatherhood (and infidelities). I kind of wish the series had ended here, but no — there’s one more left. And it’s terrible. One of my favorite running gags in this film, though, is a friend of Antoine’s — obviously meant to be Jean-Luc Godard — bumming money off of him.
Movie Trailer of the Day: Antoine and Colette by Francois Truffaut
02 years ago
Okay, this is a bit of a cheat — this is the ending montage of the film (but it doesn’t give anything away). Antoine and Colette was the short form sequel to the 400 Blows, featuring a teenaged Antoine Doinel, so doesn’t have a trailer. The next proper film in the series is Stolen Kisses. This gives a pretty good idea of the tone of Antoine and Colette, though, which is still among my favorites:
Movie Trailer of the Day: The 400 Blows by Francois Truffaut
02 years ago
As I continue my journey through the French New Wave, I offer up one of the most important films in the movement (and perhaps one of the top ten most influential films of all time), Francois Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows.” Note that Jean-Pierre Leaud, who plays Paul in Masculin-Feminin, plays Antoine in the film. Obviously, he’s a lot younger here.
Movie Trailer of the Day: Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculin Féminin
22 years ago
I first saw Masculin Féminin at the University of Maryland in 1994 in a comparative literature class called “Film, Form and Culture.” Wow, what a revelation. Godard’s study of French twentysomethings in the late 1960′s had an incredible impact on my twentysomething self. The French New Wave changed cinema and brought about the American New Wave of the 1970′s — Truffaut may be Tina’s favorite New Wave director, but I’ll always prefer the daring Godard (though admittedly, Godard hasn’t made a good film since Weekend). There are elements of Masculin Féminin in many subsequent films, including the French cafe scenes in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, which is a clear homage.