Francois Truffaut

A routine genre assignment that its beleaguered director turned into the most Shakespearean film noir of all time, "Touch of Evil" was primed to be Orson Welles' comeback, the movie that revived his Hollywood career after a long period in the wilderness....

The New York Film Festival defines itself as an annual chance to take account of the state of film as art. Last year's story line was obvious enough: American filmmakers, from Julian Schnabel to Wes Anderson, were making -- and finding ways to distribute...

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The determined jollity of Georges Delerue's saloon piano score, which later opens up to encompass a wide world of romanticism, sets the tone for Francois Truffaut's audacious second feature, made in 1960. It stars popular vocalist Charles Aznavour as a...

When playwright Neil LaBute broke through in the film world with his 1997 low-budget hit "In the Company of Men," here's how the business worked: Studios sought out new talent and would work these filmmakers into their plans. Now, as LaBute noted...

Before World War I, when the Marx Brothers and their various relatives were knocking around the vaudeville circuit, one of their acts was a schoolroom act, titled "Fun in Hi Skule." Remnants of the act turned up in "Horse Feathers," one of the Marxes'...

It took a screenplay set among Americans in Spain for Woody Allen to make his most French film yet. "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" plays like a conscious attempt at a freewheeling artifact of the French New Wave, particularly Francois Truffaut's "Jules and...

few pages into "The Film Club," the smart new memoir by Canadian film critic David Gilmour, it becomes clear that if he ever saw any of MGM's squeaky-clean Andy Hardy movies while growing up, they left little impression on him. It's doubtful that the...

French movie musicals are an oxymoron, notwithstanding the luxuriantly camp collaborations of "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand back in the '60s. Christophe Honoré's flat-footed "Love Songs" does little to change...

Jules Dassin, the blacklisted American filmmaker who was a master of film noir, directing such classics as "Brute Force," "The Naked City" and "Rififi," died Monday in an Athens hospital. He was 96. The cause of death was not made public. The...

1. 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' 7 p.m., AMC Director Steven Spielberg's 1977 science-fiction epic remains one of the best screen testaments to the notion "we are not alone." Richard Dreyfuss plays a power-company worker who learns...

Shot in supple black and white in widescreen Dyalscope, Francois Truffaut's 1959 masterwork "The 400 Blows" seems forever young. Why? Partly because of its casting; partly because Truffaut knew how to communicate to an audience eager for unsentimental...