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7 unusual facts about François Truffaut


Jean Aurenche

In 1954, future filmmaker François Truffaut wrote an article in Les Cahiers du Cinema harshly criticizing the work of Jean Aurenche & Pierre Bost.

Maurice Jaubert

French film director François Truffaut used Jaubert's music in his films in the late 1970s.

Nils Malmros

After opening in Århus, critics panned the movie for being amateurish and a plagiarism of Truffaut.

However, after viewing François Truffaut's Jules and Jim and reading a film analysis by Klaus Rifbjerg, Malmros became inspired to pursue film making.

Pimlico Mystery

In the famous book Hitchcock/Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock tells to French New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut that he once intended to make a film about this case, but later on he dropped the idea because Truffaut's film Jules and Jim also dealt with—according to his vision—a ménage à trois.

Robert Lachenay

He was François Truffaut's childhood friend and the inspiration for the character René Bigey in the first two films of the Antoine Doinel film series.

Robert Wertheimer

Deeply influenced by Gervais, Wertheimer gave particular focus to French New Wave Cinema and the impact of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and others is still readily apparent in his work.


André Bazin

François Truffaut dedicated The 400 Blows to Bazin, who died one day after shooting commenced on the film.

Astor Pictures

Astor's biggest success was undoubtedly Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960), which was a huge box-office hit for the company, and allowed it to continue to release foreign films such as Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960), François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad (1961) and Orson Welles' The Trial (1962).

Jacques Vallée

Along with his mentor, astronomer J. Allen Hynek, Vallée carefully studied the phenomenon of UFOs for many years and served as the real-life model for the character portrayed by François Truffaut in Steven Spielberg’s film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

In the Steven Spielberg film Close Encounters of the Third Kind Vallée served as the model for the French researcher character, Lacombe (François Truffaut).

Paola Calvetti

Calvetti’s third novel Né con te né senza di te was released in 2004 and was inspired by François Truffaut's film The Woman Next Door: the murder-suicide of two lovers narrated by their best friend.

SAFEGE

The test track built in France by SAFEGE in 1959, is a 1.4 kilometre monorail line featured prominently in the 1966 movie adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, directed by François Truffaut.

Sympathy in Summer

It was partly financed by Melbourne University Film Society and was heavily financed by the films of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Alain Resnais.

The Paradine Case

In an interview with François Truffaut, Hitchcock said that he and his wife Alma Reville wrote the first draft of the script together, before bringing in Scottish playwright James Bridie to do a polishing – but Selznick was dissatisfied with the result, and would view the previous days rushes, do a rewrite, and send the new scenes to the set to be shot.

Two in the Wave

The film depicts the friendship between French directors François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, the two shining figures of the French New Wave movement in the late '50s and early '60s.

Zénaïde Rossi

She most notably played the role of Madame Lajoie in François Truffaut's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film winner, Day for Night (1973) (originally billed as La Nuit américaine, France) for which Truffaut was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.

1973 : La Nuit américaine (official release) / Day for Night (USA release) (Motion Picture/Film) directed by François Truffaut, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud - Zénaïde Rossi credited as "Madame Lajoie"


see also

Devathalara Deevinchandi

It is remake of Nagin, a highly successful 1976 Hindi film, which in turn was inspired by François Truffaut's film The Bride Wore Black, based on Cornell Woolrich's novel of the same name.

Les 400 Coups

The 400 Blows, (French: Les Quatre Cents Coups), a 1959 French film directed by François Truffaut

Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre

He was the first scientist to study Victor, the wild child of Aveyron, whose life inspired François Truffaut for his film The Wild Child.