Francois Truffaut

  • Crossing the Line

The Man in Bergman: A New German Cinema Pioneer’s Search for the Heart and Soul of Ingmar Bergman’s Legacy

In the early 1960s, I went to Paris and had no thoughts of cinema at all. The New German Wave…

6 years ago
  • Directing

Blow by Blow: How Francois Truffaut and His New Wave Contemporaries Deconstructed Filmmaking

As one of the founding fathers of the French New Wave, Francois Truffaut used cinema to capture “truth 24 times…

6 years ago
  • Interviews

No Risk of Cliché: The Unorthodox Methods of Director Albert Serra Pay Off in The Death of Louis XIV

The contrast between absolute power and total impotence is the thematic core of Albert Serra’s latest portrait, The Death of…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

The Making of a Boy: Richard Linklater on his 12-Year Labor of Love, Boyhood

Richard Linklater is no stranger to the workings of time—both as thematic device in his films, and as necessary ingredient…

10 years ago
  • Articles - Features

The 25 Most Influential Directors of All Time, From Scorsese to Kubrick

Martin Scorsese. Stanley Kubrick. Alfred Hitchcock. As time passes, new models inevitably emerge. In art, politics and history, each generation…

22 years ago
  • Directing

The French New Wave Revisited: Today’s Moviemakers Reflect on the Old Guard of Innovators

Some 40-plus years ago a gifted band of moviemakers—celebrated the world over as the French 'New Wave'—were playfully reinventing the…

22 years ago