François Truffaut's Le Plaisir des Yeux
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"This book is a collection of essays, some insightful, some brief "fillers." Together it would be hard to rate the grouping as 5-stars, save for a sentimental attachment to Truffaut's work.
The book is not just the reflections of the director upon his own work. Nor is it only French cinema. One essay is entitled "The Renaissance of American cinema," and in other essays he looks at the work of Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Orson Wells, and Charlie Chaplin. Naturally he also looks at the famous French directors, from Jean Cocteau, Jean Renoir and the one man who was so responsible for saving the earlier French works, Henri Langlois. A major section of the book is devoted to essays that relate to the impact of literature on the cinema."
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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
235 new
Annie Hall
1977, in 34 top lists Check -
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Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
202 new
City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
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À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
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Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
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Days of Heaven
1978, in 19 top lists Check -
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Brief Encounter
1945, in 22 top lists Check -
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Pierrot le fou
1965 — a.k.a. Pierrot le Fou, in 16 top lists Check -
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Jules et Jim
1962 — a.k.a. Jules and Jim, in 21 top lists Check -
167 new
Hiroshima mon amour
1959 — a.k.a. Hiroshima Mon Amour, in 17 top lists Check -
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La règle du jeu
1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check -
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Doctor Zhivago
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
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Les parapluies de Cherbourg
1964 — a.k.a. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, in 18 top lists Check -
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L'Atalante
1934, in 21 top lists Check -
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La nuit américaine
1973 — a.k.a. Day for Night, in 19 top lists Check -
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Gilda
1946, in 13 top lists Check -
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Circus
1928, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Magnificent Ambersons
1942, in 15 top lists Check -
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Orphée
1950 — a.k.a. Orpheus, in 18 top lists Check -
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Madame de...
1953 — a.k.a. The Earrings of Madame De..., in 13 top lists Check -
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Adam's Rib
1949, in 8 top lists Check -
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Baisers volés
1968 — a.k.a. Stolen Kisses, in 7 top lists Check -
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Partie de campagne
1946 — a.k.a. A Day in the Country, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
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Le jour se lève
1939 — a.k.a. Daybreak, in 12 top lists Check -
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Le dernier métro
1980 — a.k.a. The Last Metro, in 8 top lists Check -
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Lola Montès
1955, in 12 top lists Check -
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The River
1951, in 9 top lists Check -
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Billy Liar
1963, in 7 top lists Check -
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Casque d'or
1952 — a.k.a. Casque d'Or, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Goodbye Girl
1977, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice
1951 — a.k.a. Othello, in 6 top lists Check -
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Lancelot du Lac
1974 — a.k.a. Lancelot of the Lake, in 4 top lists Check -
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La peau douce
1964 — a.k.a. The Soft Skin, in 4 top lists Check -
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Darling
1965, in 7 top lists Check -
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Le carrosse d'or
1952 — a.k.a. The Golden Coach, in 7 top lists Check -
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Les dames du Bois de Boulogne
1945 — a.k.a. The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne, in 7 top lists Check -
315 new
One Way Passage
1932, in 0 top lists Check -
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L'homme qui aimait les femmes
1977 — a.k.a. The Man Who Loved Women, in 2 top lists Check -
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Les deux Anglaises et le continent
1971 — a.k.a. Two English Girls, in 5 top lists Check -
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La femme d'à côté
1981 — a.k.a. The Woman Next Door, in 3 top lists Check -
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Les choses de la vie
1970 — a.k.a. The Things of Life, in 1 top list Check -
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Et Dieu... créa la femme
1956 — a.k.a. ...And God Created Woman, in 5 top lists Check -
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Les bas-fonds
1936 — a.k.a. The Lower Depths, in 1 top list Check -
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Broken Arrow
1950, in 1 top list Check -
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La sirène du Mississipi
1969 — a.k.a. Mississippi Mermaid, in 2 top lists Check -
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Les visiteurs du soir
1942 — a.k.a. The Devil's Envoys, in 3 top lists Check -
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A Countess from Hong Kong
1967, in 1 top list Check
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