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...influence, but "it's not his writing that inspired me. It's the writers, books and filmmakers that he shared with me, texts with a certain type of intimacy that had the same effect on me as they had on him." One of these influences is François Truffaut, with his tender explorations of relationships; another, the wistful 1970s chanteur Alain Souchon. Delerm's writing contains unexpected metaphors that focus on small observations, like the image of a naked woman that forms and disappears in a cup of sake in the song Evreux. Critics dismiss his style as precious...
...major influence on his work. While I’m reluctant to juxtapose “Guilty” with “The 400 Blows,” Stevens work definitely has an element of that same detachment and disaffection among its characters that infuses the oeuvres of Truffaut and his contemporaries. Further, Stevens’ visual style is reminiscent of cinematic montage, which wordlessly hints at a complexity of character and adds depth and texture to an otherwise straightforward story by injecting disparate, non-sequential images into the narrative...
Although set in the '20s, this is the '60s film par excellence. Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) both love the free-spirited Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), who bunks with each of them. Unofficially remade dozens of times (most recently by Bernardo Bertolucci as The Dreamers), Franois Truffaut's 1962 valentine to not-so-free love explored the geometry of the romantic triangle with a scientist's precision and a poet's wisdom. The confusions of love never seemed so radiant...
DIED. MORRIS ENGEL, 86, filmmaker whose 1953 Little Fugitive--a $30,000, documentary-style tale of a boy who runs away because he mistakenly believes he has killed his brother--brought him an Oscar nomination, international acclaim and credit from such directors as Franois Truffaut and John Cassavetes for influencing the emerging indie-film movement; in New York City...
DIED. PHILIPPE DE BROCA, 71, director of frenetic film comedies of France's New Wave; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. A onetime assistant to Franois Truffaut, he made dozens of films over five decades but gained most acclaim in the 1960s with the spy spoof That Man from Rio, which followed Jean-Paul Belmondo on a global search for a statuette, and the antiwar satire King of Hearts, starring a young Alan Bates as a disillusioned World War I soldier, a flop in France but a longtime art-house cult...