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Watching the witty, often breezy autobiographical work of director Francois Truffaut helped inspire Almost Famous, but Crowe found his film's muse nearly 30 years ago. At the same time that he was embarking on his journalism career, a striking young Portland, Ore., woman, standing 5 ft. 10 in. with waist-length red hair, moved to Los Angeles to be with a keyboard player for Steppenwolf. There she became enamored of musicians and their milieu, and when she returned to Portland, she continued hanging out with the bands that came through town. Adopting the name Pennie Lane and a vintage...
...power--a compound of rebel cheekiness, stylistic innovation and a tragicomic vision of media power--has never waned. It remains a work that seduces the young and inspires the old with thoughts of what the medium can achieve. RUNNERS-UP Day for Night by Francois Truffaut; Chinatown by Roman Polanski...
...hero and heroine in the context of a society that rejects their mild bohemianism. Jude (Christopher Eccleston) studies for the sheer pleasure of the text; Sue (Kate Winslet) flaunts her agnosticism and struts in bars, turning a cigarette into a smokestack (a gesture used so well in Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim, the classic film about the perils of loving a liberated woman). They are also the modern homeless: their evictions from "decent" homes set up an atrocity that still shocks 100 years after the novel was published...
...himself about nothing in particular, but giving us insight into how his mind works. Another scene shows an author's press conference that Patricia covers for her news-paper. Its total irrelevance to the plot doesn't make it less interesting-it provides an opportunity to hear the Truffaut rattle off dozens of maxims about love. Other shots try to make sense of the flawed plot; a sign in the middle of the city reads, "The dragnet is being drawn about Michel Poiccard!". It's not a great tactic for police trying to sneak up on a criminal...
...ingredients of a classic come together almost perfectly in "Breathless." Sex, crime, cops, money, Paris, beautiful heroine, daring hero--they're all here; but the best thing about the film is that it doesn't fit into the "classic" category. Screenwriter Francois Truffaut pioneered French new Wave film, and "Breathless" exemplifies the genre. Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo fleshes out the New Wave hero flawlessly by shattering the image of the typical leading man. One scene shows Belmondo's character, the fugitive Michel Poiccard, staring at a poster of Humphrey Bogart for minutes on end. But Poiccard's unglamorous criminal record...