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When he views films himself, Resnais claims, he forgets about being a director. "I'm a movie buff. I like films where I can feel the style of a director come through." He lists the directors he enjoys: Renoir, Fellini, Bergman, Truffaut, Bunuel . . . on and on, a whole canon of modern film...
King Kong. Harvard Square, 3:25, 6:35, 9:50, 9:50. With Rashomon, 2, 5:10, 8:25. Through March 10. Jules and Jim, by Truffaut, 2:15, 5:55, 9:35, with Grand Illusion, Renoir, 4:05, 7:45, beginning March...
Shoot the Piano Player, Francois Truffaut's two-toned lament for a thin-skinned ivory-tickler. With Smiles of a Summer Night, a period comedy of lost aspirations--one of Bergman's best. Through March 2. The 400 Blows, the first Truffaut, a sensitive study of a tough youth's progress. 2:30, 6:05, 9:40, with Rules of the Game, beginning March...
French film makers appear to have an abiding and unbounded affection for childhood recollection. The results have sometimes been memorable (François Truffaut's The 400 Blows), occasionally even classic (Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct). Such adventures into the past require a good deal of perspective if they are to be anything more than sentimental souvenirs. This quality is in short supply in Louis Malle's reminiscence, Murmur of the Heart...
Over the past ten years, Raoul Coutard has achieved a reputation as one of the world's great cinematographers. In that time he has worked for almost all of the noted French "New Wave" film makers (Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer, among others). This is his first directorial effort, and it would seem that his technical background would incline him toward a stylistic self-consciousness. But Coutard is too sure of himself to feel a need to demonstrate his proficiencies. His direction is efficient rather than ostentatious. His concern is with narrative, and the narrative is rigourously simple...