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DVD004385

400 Blows, The

Truffaut, François

Criterion Collection, 2008

Description:

BluRay - Zone A.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
b/w.   widescreen.   sound - Dolby digital monaural.  

Notes:

Supplemental features include: audio commentary by Brian Stonehill (film scholar); audio commentary by Robert Lachenay (Truffaut friend); audition footage of Léaud, Patrick Auffay & Richard Kanayan (6 min, total); newsreel of Léaud in Cannes for the premiere [excerpt] (1959, 6 min); theatrical trailer. Essay booklet available from checkout.

Titles

+ François Truffaut ou l’Esprit Critique [Excerpt]

Alternate Title:

Cinéastes de Notre Temps: François Truffaut ou l’Esprit Critique; François Truffaut or a Critical Mind

Director:

uncredited

Running Time:

Short.   23 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1965

Language:

French with optional English subtitles

Genre:

Television Production, Interview

Notes:

Excerpt from an episode of “Cinéastes de Notre Temps” originally broadcast December 12, 1965.

+ Interview with François Truffaut [Excerpt]

Director:

Bescont, Jean

Running Time:

Short.   7 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1960

Language:

English and French with optional English subtitles

Genre:

Television Production, Interview

Notes:

Excerpt from an interview with François Truffaut on the TV program “Cinépanorama”, originally broadcast February 20, 1960.

+ 400 Blows, The

Alternate Title:

The Four Hundred Blows; Les 400 Coups

Director:

Truffaut, François

Production Co:

Films du Carrosse; SEDIF

Running Time:

Feature.   100 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby digital monaural

Color:

b/w

Country:

France

Year:

1959

Language:

French with optional English subtitles

Genre:

Drama

Notes:

With Jean-Pierre Léaud. Truffaut’s feature film debut, inspired in part by his own troubled childhood. Young Antoine Doinel is misunderstood at home and tormented in school. and frequently runs away from both. The boys troubles grow increasingly grave as he steals a typewriter from his father and ends up in jail, where a psychiatrist begins probing the sources of the boy’s troubles. Supplemental features include: audio commentary by Brian Stonehill (film scholar); audio commentary by Robert Lachenay (Truffaut friend); audition footage of Léaud, Patrick Auffay & Richard Kanayan (6 min, total); newsreel of Léaud in Cannes for the premiere [excerpt] (1959, 6 min); FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT OU L’ESPRIT CRITIQUE [EXCERPT] (1965, 23 min); interview with Truffaut on the “Cinéppanorama” [excerpt] (Jean Bescont, 7, 1960, min); theatrical trailer. Essay booklet available from checkout.

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