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Truffaut

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Truffaut
François . 1932--84, French film director of the New Wave. His films include Les Quatre cents coups (1959), Jules et Jim (1961), Baisers volés (1968), and Le Dernier Métro (1980)


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In that sense he was closer to Truffaut and Godard, who regularly reviewed films in Cahiers du Cinema in order to create the taste required to appreciate their own as-yet-unmade work.
He pioneered the technique of cinema verite, which became the hallmark of documentary filmmaking in the latter part of the twentieth century and which had a profound impact on such notable filmmakers as Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut.
From the projector's magic lantern came images from filmmakers like Truffaut, Fellini, Bergman, Man Ray and Kurosawa, and I was transposed to worlds far beyond my imagination.
 
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