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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The Birth of a Nation
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Las Hurdes
1933 — a.k.a. Land Without Bread, in 12 top lists Check -
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Un grand amour de Beethoven
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Mon père avait raison
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La vie est à nous
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Un carnet de bal
1937 — a.k.a. Christine, in 4 top lists Check -
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Les dégourdis de la 11ème
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Drôle de drame
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La grande illusion
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Scipione l'africano
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La bête humaine
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