Word: truffauts
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...care very much about these neglects and misunderstandings. He had plenty of prizes; Queen Elizabeth knighted him this year, even though he had moved to Hollywood when he was 40 and had long since become a U.S. citizen. Young European c?astes, such as French Director-Critics Fran?s Truffaut and Claude Chabrol, began to write about Hitchcock's work with a seriousness that sometimes became unconsciously funny. But it was the beginning of a necessary reevaluation...
...French département-and a swinging outpost of Southern France. Often likened to the Saint-Tropez of 20 years ago, the 8-sq.-mi. island boasts 36 restaurants, French bakeries, discos, wind surfing, sailing, a harbor full of yachts, elegant boutiques and enough local eccentrics to fill a Truffaut film. However, St. Barts-named by Columbus for his brother Bartolomeo-is more than a transplanted French beach resort. It is a beautiful, pastoral island, whose inhabitants-95% of the population of 2,800 are white-are mostly of Breton and Norman descent. In villages perched on the hillsides, older...
...Night (1973). The best movie about moviemaking ever made-wry, funny, yet filled with Director Francois Truffaut's romantic feeling for his medium...
...moves only when the actors' wanderings force it to do so. Benton's focus is so tight that Kramer shows a far more domestic and grittier view of Manhattan than the Allen and Mazursky films. The cinematographer is Nestor Almendros, a frequent collaborator of François Truffaut's and Eric Rohmer's and a brilliant portraitist...
...Truffaut was the director whom Producer Stanley Jaffe first hired for Kramer. When scheduling conflicts developed, Jaffe turned to Benton. Though he has directed only two previous movies, Bad Company (an antic western with Jeff Bridges) and The Late Show (an eccentric detective story with Art Carney and Lily Tomlin), Benton's career stretches back over a decade. With his longtime writing partner, David Newman, he co-authored the most influential film script of the '60s, Bonnie and Clyde, which, like Kramer, leavened conflict with smart wit. He and Newman also collaborated on such diverse '70s movies...