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 ...

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 ...

François Truffaut was a revered member of the French New Wave, but few people know about the filmmaker’s longtime friend and colleague, Helen Scott. Serge Toubiana, the president of Unifrance and the ...

One of the big events of the spring is the complete retrospective of the films of François Truffaut that begins today at Film Forum and runs through April 17th. It’s a welcome chance to see some great ...

A two-part documentary from 1996 —titled “The Man Who Loved Cinema”— has made its way online, and it’s a fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told ...

When François Truffaut made his feature directorial debut with "The 400 Blows" in 1959, it quickly became an international sensation and the French New Wave's first smash hit. Along with Jean-Luc ...

Today at 5:30 PM (and once more tomorrow at 6 PM), the Gene Siskel Film Center hosts a screening of Francois Truffaut’s The Story of Adele H. (It screens alongside Andrzej Zulawski’s horror classic ...

Kent Jones’ 2015 documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut airs tonight, August 8, on HBO at 9 p.m. EST. Inspired by François Truffaut’s book of the same title from 1966, the film delves into the work of Alfred ...

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 ...