Video interview: Francois Truffaut

Scott Myers

31 Dec 2009 • 1 min read

A special New Year’s Eve treat: A series of videos featuring noted writer-director Francois Truffaut. His writing credits include Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows — 1959), À bout de souffle (Breathless — 1960), Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player — 1960), Jules et Jim (Jules and Jim — 1962), L’enfant sauvage (The Wild Child — 1970), La nuit américaine (Day for Night — 1973), and Le dernier métro (The Last Metro — 1980) .

Part 1 — On his early films

Part 2 — On preparing for a film

Part 3 — On something he learned from Alfred Hitchcock

Part 4 — More on Alfred Hitchcock

AFI Lifetime Award: Honoring Alfred Hitchcock

And finally Truffaut interviewed for the French television show “Champ contre champ,” where he discusses Jean-Pierre Leaud and making cinema that is both intensely personal and popular in appeal:

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