Word: truffauts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fahrenheit 451, or How I Stopped Burning Books, is a plug for Library Week. Librarians -- half a smile, coughdrops, their hair restrained in buns -- should champion it. The movie has that peculiar fate because Truffaut strated using Ray Bradbury material and didn't know when to stop...
...their relentless virtuosity-none of Wajda's beautiful but monotonously static compositions, none of the bludgeoning Polanski's Wellesian low angels and shock cuts, none of the coy mysteriousness common to Shop on Main Street and Joseph Kilian. Forman is more Western in temperament, a humanist in the Renoir-Truffaut-Olmi line of descent...
FAHRENHEIT 451. Ray Bradbury's somber tale about a futuristic society that burns books has been reworked by France's Francois Truffaut into a mild, gay little film starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie as two 21st century "radicals...
FAHRENHEIT 451. Francois Truffaut's weirdly gay little picture has Hero Oskar Werner as a pyromaniacal punk who sincerely thinks that "books are just rubbish." Werner is unshakably believable, but Julie Christie, in the dual role of his dull wife and spirited woman who arouses his interest in books, strongly supports the suspicion that this actress cannot actually...
FAHRENHEIT 451. Ray Bradbury's somber tale of a futuristic society where reading is forbidden has been refurbished by France's Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim) into a strangely humorous, coolly competent little film that stars Oskar Werner as a book-burning fireman and Julie Christie as both of the women in his life...