Dedicated to the brilliant filmmaker, François Truffaut!Tumblr (3.0; @marrymetruffaut)http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg7ylveydk1qfrkx1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/35043403728http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/35043403728Mon, 05 Nov 2012 01:13:33 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m23xogFw6S1rtosqxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mabellonghetti.tumblr.com/post/20662902818/francois-truffaut-and-jean-renoir">mabellonghetti</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>François Truffaut and Jean Renoir</span></p> </blockquote>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/20874492196http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/20874492196Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:43:27 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2a6y3uyJN1r7o1ruo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://francoisrolandtruffaut.tumblr.com/post/20858849338">francoisrolandtruffaut</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Speaking of Jean-Pierre Léaud.</p> </blockquote>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/20859596328http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/20859596328Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:57:26 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2356twBSV1qf7r5lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/20625117600http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/20625117600Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:44:22 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ldzx2MOc1qf7r5lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/18985108679http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/18985108679Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:27:36 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m04to7bqKd1qaxqhho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://redvelvetteacake.tumblr.com/post/18471078429/i-saw-my-first-200-films-on-the-sly-playing-hooky">redvelvetteacake</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>I saw my first 200 films on the sly, playing hooky and slipping into the movie house without paying—through the emergency exit or the washroom window—or by taking advantage of my parents’ going out for an evening (I had to be in bed, pretending to be asleep, when they came home). I paid for these pleasures with stomach aches, cramps, nervous headaches and guilty feelings, which only heightened the emotions evoked by the films.</em></p> </blockquote>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/18715266832http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/18715266832Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:11:31 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m018zlVTRU1qmr9rao1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://infinitetext.com/post/18361984984/francois-truffaut-the-story-of-adele-h-1975">infinitetext</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>François Truffaut, <em>The Story of Adele H.</em>, 1975.</p> </blockquote>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/18362206664http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/18362206664Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:46:42 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m018q1aN6G1qmr9rao1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://infinitetext.com/post/18361645165/francois-truffaut-the-story-of-adele-h-1975">infinitetext</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>François Truffaut, <em>The Story of Adele H.</em>, 1975.</p> </blockquote>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/18361727119http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/18361727119Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:38:38 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m016vfod711qf7r5lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/18359458409http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/18359458409Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:02:07 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lysglfGTSS1qb6hcko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><small><em>- Your parents say you’re always lying. <br/>- Oh, I lie now and then, I suppose. Sometimes I’d tell them the truth and they still wouldn’t believe me, so I prefer to lie.</em> <br/><strong>les quatre cent coups / the 400 blows ; françois truffaut (1959)</strong></small></p> </blockquote>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17332886622http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17332886622Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:16:28 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz05wibVMb1qaa7zeo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://lotus-eyes.tumblr.com/post/17190720661/happy-birthday-truffaut-today-would-have-been">lotus-eyes</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Happy birthday Truffaut.</p> <blockquote> <p>Today would have been François Truffaut’s eightieth birthday; he was born on Feb. 6, 1932, and he died at fifty-two-years-old, on Oct. 21, 1984, during a period of renewed vigor for the French New Wave (following the 1981 election of François Mitterrand as President of France). Truffaut had been busy throughout the seventies—largely due to American financing and enthusiasm for his work; then he had a great success in France with “<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/film/the_last_metro_truffaut">The Last Metro</a>,” which came out in 1980 (it will be <a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/nyff-80-the-last-metro">at Film Society of Lincoln Center on Feb. 21</a>). Much has been made about Truffaut’s dispute with Jean-Luc Godard (including by me, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/07/080407fa_fact_brody">in the magazine</a>), who, in 1973, had in effect accused Truffaut of selling out; but (as Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana make clear in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Truffaut-Biography-Antoine-Baecque/dp/0520225244">their biography of Truffaut</a>) the success of “The Last Metro” induced others to make the same unjustified charge.</p> <p>Godard was right to suggest that Truffaut found in the world of the cinema the kind of family that he had lacked in his youth—but he was wrong to suggest that Truffaut instrumentalized the cinema in order to create it and to shelter himself within it. Rather, Truffaut’s experience of the cinema-family was essentially documentary: he found it in the process of his work and then reflected it back into his films. Yet the movies in which he did so most overtly (like “Day for Night”) weren’t necessarily the ones in which he did so most profoundly—the tension between Truffaut’s public and private cinema was greater (and led to greater misunderstanding) than it was for other French filmmakers of his generation.</p> <div id="entry-more"> <p>Speaking at the American Film Institute in 1979, he called his first feature, “The 400 Blows,” “rather intimate—and so, in a certain sense, I didn’t need that much craft to realize it.” Increasingly, as he sought to reflect his experiences in a more symbolic (though no less personal) form. He needed craft, as he says in this clip, and he turned to Alfred Hitchcock, both cinematically and personally, in order to learn it. <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/02/franois-truffaut-in-the-family.html">Read rest of article here.</a></p> </div> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17190960981http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17190960981Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:08:56 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyz44umemi1qjjmx5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17187406086http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17187406086Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:13:58 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyz5hp4d0H1r3vpabo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://slurpeemachinemind.tumblr.com/post/17152792153/happy-birthday-francois-truffaut">slurpeemachinemind</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Happy Birthday Francois Truffaut!</p> </blockquote>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17187400358http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17187400358Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:13:52 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzfstEmWW1qhgo71o7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzfstEmWW1qhgo71o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzfstEmWW1qhgo71o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzfstEmWW1qhgo71o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzfstEmWW1qhgo71o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzfstEmWW1qhgo71o5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzfstEmWW1qhgo71o6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzfstEmWW1qhgo71o8_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzfstEmWW1qhgo71o10_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzfstEmWW1qhgo71o13_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://2or3thingsiknowaboutfilm.tumblr.com/post/17159791456/francois-truffaut-6-february-1932-21-october">2or3thingsiknowaboutfilm</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>François Truffaut</strong><br/>6 February 1932 - 21 October 1984 <br/><br/><em>“Making a film is like a stagecoach ride in the old west. When you start, you are hoping for a pleasant trip. By the halfway point, you just hope to survive.” </em><br/><br/>(<em>Day For Night</em>, 1973) </p> </blockquote>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17187306375http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17187306375Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:12:27 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyyr41KCdd1qc25v3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://30dialogues.tumblr.com/post/17166196774">30dialogues</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><small><strong>February 6, 1932</strong> — Happy birthday, François Truffaut!</small></p> </blockquote>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17187167921http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17187167921Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:10:20 -0500“…actually making films has taught us a lot:<br/> It is as much trouble to make a bad film as a good one.<br/> Our most sincere films can seem phony.<br/> The films we do with our left hands may become worldwide hits.<br/> A perfectly ordinary movie with energy can turn out to be better cinema than a film with “intelligent” intentions listlessly executed.<br/> The result rarely matches the effort.<br/> Cinematic success is not necessarily the result of good brain work, but of a harmony of existing elements in ourselves that we may not have even been conscious of: a fortunate fusion of subject and our deeper feelings, an accidental coincidence of our own preoccupations at a certain moment of life and the public’s.<br/> Many things.”<br/><br/> - <em><p>Francois Truffaut, “What Do Critics Dream About?”</p> <p>doing a little homework for a blog post on truffaut. look for it soon.</p></em>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17186772540http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17186772540Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:04:17 -0500“The immense sadness of films without woman. I hate war films, except for the moment when the soldier takes out of his pocket the photo of a woman.”<br/><br/> - <em>François Truffaut</em>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17180413296http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17180413296Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:24:38 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzrsdBpnS1qzn0deo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://i12bent.tumblr.com/post/17171437513/tonights-spotlight-must-of-course-fall-on-my">i12bent</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Tonight’s spotlight must of course fall on my favorite New Wave’r - François Truffaut: Feb. 6, 1932 - 1984…</p> <p>Among his early master works are <em>The 400 Blows, Jules et Jim </em>and<em> Fahrenheit 451 </em>(after Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel about a book-burning dictatorship)…</p> </blockquote>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17176931466http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17176931466Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:30:31 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzs3ztomk1qzn0deo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://i12bent.tumblr.com/post/17171780234/francois-truffaut-doing-his-homework-reading">i12bent</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>François Truffaut doing his homework, reading Penny Vincinzi’s 1977 volume…</p> </blockquote>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17176915849http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17176915849Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:30:16 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzsjdpStG1qzn0deo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://i12bent.tumblr.com/post/17172313822/francois-and-alfred-in-debate-hitchcock-loves">i12bent</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>François and Alfred in debate…</p> <p><span class="body">“Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.</span>” - François Truffaut</p> </blockquote>http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17176852732http://marrymetruffaut.tumblr.com/post/17176852732Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:29:17 -0500