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...mouse who is starstruck after getting hit by a sledgehammer--pure silly bliss. This is an okay emotion to have visited upon you, and this is a picture not to be missed. Playing at the Brattle with Stolen Kisses until Tuesday. The second show on the bill is a Truffaut tale about young Antoine Doinel; it's more incisively funny than the Malle film but not nearly as purging...
...first scriptwriters, the master sat in a box while 2,800 admirers, who had paid up to $250 each, enjoyed three hours of celluloid suspense. Clips from many of Hitchcock's 56 movies were interspersed with personal appearances by French Director François Truffaut, Joan Fontaine (Rebecca), Janet Leigh (Psycho). Cyril Ritchard (Blackmail) and Monaco's Princess Grace (Rear Window, Dial M for Murder). Grace, whose career was made in Hitchcock movies, quoted one of Hitch's quips. After being stuffed into a tightfitting gold lamé ballgown for To Catch a Thief, she was greeted...
Harvey formed Janus Films, without a doubt the most important force in establishing foreign film as an art form in this country. Janus and Harvey brought over all the remaining Bergmans, the first Truffaut, Renoir's two best films--in fact, for a decade or so almost all the important foreign films to come to this country. Harvey, Truffaut, Bergman and most of the others have no part in the Janus operations any more, but the company still has close ties to Harvey's Harvard-Central-Brattle chain, as the Brattle programming and the periodic Janus festivals at the Square...
...traumas of working on the road, on the sociology of backstage life, the horrible, wrenching, self-divisive experience of being an artiste. At its worst, this heightened sensitivity has produced such apparitions as Billy Joel's "Piano Man;" at its best, self-congratulatory pieces of fluff like Truffaut's "Day for Night" ("A film is like a train in the night," the director tells his leading...
...Night. Another sweet movie by Truffaut, this may be more autobiographical than the others (400 Blows was the first in the line), as he plays himself. Starring Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jacqueline Bisset, and Valentina Cortese, it is about the making of a movie called "Meet Pamela." Truffaut is perhaps too enamored, wistfully so, of his material--movie-making comes off as an experiment in building T-group togetherness. The actors live harder than the parts they play, high all the time off the magic of movie-making. The movie itself is pieced together out of bits...