He really liked women – a lot. Not all directors like women. Sometimes, they really don’t do you justice,” Jacqueline Bisset says of the French filmmaker François Truffaut, who directed her in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laura Truffaut, daughter of the legendary French New Wave director Francois Truffaut, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

It’s an enduring tragedy when great films are spurned by both critics and viewers at the time of their release. The judgment of history is often more accurate. François Truffaut made an unabashedly ...

While Tarantino is no fan of the French New Wave legend, he did single out "The Story of Adele H" as a Truffaut film he enjoyed. Say what you will about Quentin Tarantino, but he never backs down from ...

Those unfamiliar with the nuances of France’s New Wave may not realize its movies aren’t all inscrutable. For every Jacques Rivette, there was an Eric Rohmer; for every Jean-Luc Godard, a François ...

Taking inspiration from an American crime novel by Cornell Woolrich (under the pseudonym William Irish), François Truffaut presents Jeanne Moreau as the eponymous bride. Over the course of the film, ...

Jean-Pierre Léaud reprises his role as Antoine Doinel, the protagonist of François Truffaut's iconic directorial debut, The 400 Blows (1959). Doinel is now in his early 20s — older, but little wiser.

There are good, questionable, and bad reasons for wishing to read someone’s collected letters. The sound reason is simply wanting to know that remarkable person better; to become, at least vicariously ...

Things you learn at the movies: next time you’re at a strip club, walk up to the first exotic dancer you see and ask, “Do you work here?” That’s just one of the dozens of durable laughs to be found ...