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 ...

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 ...

He really liked women – a lot. Not all directors like women. Sometimes, they really don’t do you justice,” Jacqueline Bisset says of the French filmmaker François Truffaut, who directed her in the ...

When discussing the masters of French cinema, one name consistently stands out among the rest: François Truffaut. A pioneering director, screenwriter, and film critic, Truffaut left an indelible mark ...

François Truffaut became a celebrity as a French director, screenwriter and film critic. Born in 1932 in Paris, Truffaut was passionate about cinema from a young age. Self-taught, he attended cinemas ...

Depicting Truffaut through Truffaut’s own material – a combination of archive footage, letters, and an autobiographical account by the filmmaker himself – the film is the deeply moving portrait of a ...

Writer and translator Helen Scott was Truffaut's ally throughout his career. In this exclusive chapter from a new biography, Serge Toubiana recounts her insistence that Truffaut direct one of the most ...

Truffautastic movies for French cinema enthusiasts. Unforgettable films from the City of Light. The inseparable duo responsible for the French New Wave eventually crumbled due to irreconcilable ...

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 ...