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...LAST METRO Directed by Frangois Truffaut Screenplay by Frangois Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman and Jean-Claude Grumberg Here Francois Truffaut does for theater people what he did for film folk in 1973's Day for Night: he makes charming sense of their idiosyncrasies in a story that combines amused tolerance for their odd ways with a tender regard for their idealism. The earlier film showed how a movie company on location seals itself off from the outside world and creates its own vivid reality. The Last Metro focuses on a theatrical company trying to operate in German-occupied Paris during...
...mammals-from white rats up through the most sophisticated human beings. To illustrate his thesis with scenes from the lives of three ordinary people, we have engaged the services of Jean Gruault, who has written some of the finest and most provocative French films of the past 20 years: Truffaut's Jules and Jim and The Wild Child; Godard's Les Carabiniers; and Rossellini's The Rise of Louis XIV. The slide show has been assembled by Alain Resnais, director of such films as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad and La Guerre Est Finie. Today...
Bradbury began writing science fiction as a teen-ager in Waukegan, Ill. But it was not until François Truffaut filmed Fahrenheit 451 in 1966 that he was widely saluted as one of the masters of the genre. "My life has been full of myths," says Bradbury, whose fiction often suggests an amalgam of the classic fables, Frank Baum's Oz books and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio...
...reversed. Hot young directors like Steven Spielberg and John Landis have exercised their talent on elaborate homages to the Three Stooges. Brian De Palma has taken up permanent residence as a grinning caretaker of the Hitchcock reliquary. Paul Mazursky has stared into his navel and found François Truffaut. And Woody Allen, whose films find their strength in reflections on his life and the lives of the beautiful battered people around him, has retreated into an anguished remake of 8½. In Stardust Memories, he has erected a movie-studio cage around his experience and produced pictures...
...MOVIE BEGINS with an audience watching the end of Truffaut's classic picture about two friends falling in love with the same capricious girl, Jules and Jim. Mazursky thus claims to be updating and Americanizing this classic. Willie and Phil meet outside the theater in 1970 in Greenwich Village and, as the narrator tells us, "became great friends." They hated the Vietnam war, and they loved Truffaut. One had a predilection to Dante, the other to baseball. They shared lofts and aspirations, beer and self-condemnation...